#south asian racism

[alwaysbewoke]

On March 16, 1991 Latasha Harlin’s short life came to a violent end in the midst of racial tensions in LA, and became a major spark for the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. By the late 1980s, racial tensions were high in South Los Angeles. After the change in national immigration laws in 1965 a large number of Korean immigrants arrived in Los Angeles and by 1968 the first Korean-owned market opened in South Central LA. Longtime African American residents in the area at first welcomed the Koreans but eventually grew angry with them because they refused to hire black employees and often treated their customers poorly. By 1990, 65% of South Central businesses were Korean-owned and a 1992 survey of these storeowners revealed considerable racial prejudice against black customers and black people in general. Koreans in response argued that their attitudes evolved from high crime rates in the area and shop owner fears of shootings and burglaries. Latasha Harlins became a victim of these racial tensions on the morning of Saturday, March 16, 1991. She entered a store owned by a Korean family, to purchase a bottle of orange juice. As she approached the counter, Soon Ja Du, accused her of stealing after seeing her place the bottle in her backpack, despite her holding the $2 payment approaching the counter to pay. Du grabbed the bag and the two women had a violent scuffle. Harlins threw the juice bottle back on the counter and turned to leave the store when Du pulled a .38-caliber handgun and shot 15-year-old Harlins in the back of the head. Du was arrested and her trial was held on November 15, 1991. Security-camera footage which showed Harlins’ attempt to pay for the juice and the subsequent scuffle between the two women convinced a jury to find Du guilty of voluntary manslaughter. The Judge, Joyce Karlin, rejected the jury’s recommendation and instead sentenced Du to five years probation, 400 hours of community service, and a $500 fine.

One of the many reasons black people don't f*** with Asians like that and we should collectively drive them out of our neighborhoods

#latasha harlins #los angeles riots #racial tensions #korean immigrants #south los angeles #soon ja du #racial prejudice #voluntary manslaughter #racial discrimination #asian anti blackness #asian racism

[comradekatara]

even KURUK was done so dirty by natla too - you know, going it alone in the spirit world was probably his greatest regret (though at least his animal guide was probably with him)

yeah my friend pointed out that the way roku was portrayed as uncharacteristically playful and charming while kuruk was just kind of flat and serious was not only mischaracterizing both of them in a way where if they had just reversed their personalities it would have made sense (what are they, zukka??) but indicative of anti-native racism by playing into the stoic native leader/elder trope even though that’s truly not what kuruk is at all, whereas roku is kind of the sage old asian man mentor, but you know, they do think to subvert THAT. no offense to ken leung and danny pudi who are innocent but this show was largely made by the most annoying asian americans, and it shows, such as in the fact that a single fire nation boat looks 100x better than the entire northern water tribe, or the fact that they uh. idk. cast a white guy to play sokka and didn’t even give a shit. justice for kuruk but also justice for every single water tribe character truly

#10000dandelions #asks #natla #it’s funny that they’re like ‘well by virtue of being ethnically asian we will be more sensitive to racial politics’ #and then they did MORE orientalizing and racism and had far worse politics than the original #dont even get me started on omashu being all of south asia all of a sudden…..

[jeanvanjer]

Y’all I found the inspo to that fugly dress Kate wears

Jokes aside, as an Indian I’m very insulted by this. Clearly no Indian designer or even a single South Asian mother nani or dadi was consulted for this.

#this is the racism fans actually should be calling out #the spice thing is ridiculous comment like wtf #and also earthy neutral tones are a south Asian mums worst nightmare the brighter the better #an Indian mum will look at Kate’s dress in s3 and say ‘beta why are you dressing like an old woman and not a young married one?’ #bridgerton #kate sharma #kate bridgerton

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

Just an FYI

#talkin #tik tok #antiblackness #antiblack #south asian #racism

[dragynkeep]

"the writers are racist but the show isn't", yeah the totally not racist actions of having their first black character be a scantily clad thief subservient to a white woman or their first asian character be a nonsensical mashup of chinese & japanese cultures or one of their girlboss characters being based off a nazi or killing off their first south asian character in her first five minutes or getting their native american character's last name entirely wrong or having their latina character wear booty shorts & a chainmail in the desert while she's participating in human trafficking or having their racial allegory be mainly represented by white characters while allegorically stealing the experiences from black americans as admitted by the creative director or —

#rwby #rwde #anti blackness #antisemitism #anti asian racism #anti latino racism #anti south asian racism #ais.txt

[metamatar]

when I engage with white people sometimes in the pnw, in a liberal university etc they're kind of afraid of making jokes or even really expressing any opinions about our cultural differences that are not like adoringly positive bc they are afraid of being accused of racism, and personally I delight in that and do nothing to ease their fear. It makes it less likely for them to actually be racist and I paid a lot of visa fees to get here. a lot of international grad students, esp south asians will ease them, like omg I'm not like those people, I don't mind and the those people being imagined there is I think a stereotype borne out of anti blackness.

#white america in the liberal heartlands is really only temporarily kept in check from open hostility sometimes by fear of social censure #of the unacceptability of racism that black americans have largely made possible #this reactionary cowardice from model minority south asians really grinds my gears

[ansburg]

cannot imagine getting mad about gnome racism when the main gnome cast is just like. white people who are purple

im very sorry barcus tucci but you are distracting from a serious conversation about racism in western fantasy when the slave-keeping race of dwarves overwhelmingly look like this

#it's so unserious lmao? #literally so many things to critique #from the way white gays didn't want to acknowledge that racebending karlach was fucked up #to how wyll is handled by the writers and fandom alike #or the ongoing weird shit dnd rehashes every time when it comes to nomadic peoples (the vistani & the gur) #or how primitive/tribal bleeds into more violent wrt goblins bugbears etc #but for some reason we're ..... talking abt ast*rion's gnome racism........ #fandom critical #bg3 critical cw #honestly reminds me how dai made their first SEA man a rich guy who does some mild slavery apologia #and their black female character the most divisive voice on ~mage rights~ #like this isn't subversive writing yall. it's just dumb as hell #*south asian man i think actually. not SEA

[lonelylesbian2]

I remember when I was younger people would ALWAYS make fun of me when I talked about my family because of what I called them. My family is Indian (punjabi to be exact) so I was subject to LOADS of mockery anyway. But when we did family trees in primary school I got laughed at so badly and so many people told me I had the 'wrong' names because my maternal uncle wasn't called 'mama', that was what my mother was called. When I tried to explain that that's what I called them in my culture I got told I was wrong. 8 year old me thought that my family tree was supposed to be filled with my family. What they were called to me. 8 year old me got told I was wrong. My teachers gave me sheets to fill out with 'uncle' and 'aunt' and 'grandma'. I grew up like that and when I was 10 years old we went to go and visit my mums family in Delhi. I called my mothers mum grandma. Now, when I visit I'm older, now I call my mother sister 'mausi', I call people who aren't related to me closely but are still very close 'mausi'. Because that's my culture. I am an only child but I have people I call 'didi', I have people who call me 'didi'. My older relatives call me 'beta'. I am not their daughter, but that is our culture. Now, I don't let anyone tell me what I can and can't call my family. Because they are mine. Now when people ask who's visiting, i tell them my 'chacha'.

I hate that I ever let anyone tell me my culture was wrong, that I had to leave my blood and roots behind in favour of what other people knew. But I was young and that was the reality of it. Everyday, my heart goes out to the little 8 year old girl sitting at the dining table, wishing she could change the colour of her skin and the blood in her veins.

#🎀 #indian #bharat #punjabi #british asian #rant #rant post #vent post? #vent post #growing up as a POC in britain #especially as a south asian #i had a time where i didnt say i was indian #i used to say i was british #im glad im able to look people in the eye #and tick the box on the forms with confidence #racism #discrimination #prejudice #britains fucked up education system #destroying lives and cultures since day one #the UK education system #ladies and gentlemen

[rotzaprachim]

Nimona is. A very good movie but also one of the contextually for-it’s-time precise movies I’ve ever seen

#Like I’m still turning over in my head the way it pretty explicitly talks about not accepting trans children’s identities #As a particular and deeply violent and brutal form of child abuse #But I’m also pretty caught on all the decisions and implications that come from racebending ballister #That was a Decision and I think a Good One but again. While I’ve seen some commentary on classicism #That story is also So Much in the context of anti south Asian racism and Islamophobia #There’s been a bunch of kid and adopted Dad stories as of recent but there’s whole new levels making the adopted dad figure a gay #South asian man #Like just as the Nimona plot line is actively and precisely cutting at the Defend our Children catchphrases of transphobic legislation by #Showing the harm that kind of demonization does to a CHILD #Having ballister be the kind of awkward dead inside/dad inside figure really cuts into the homophobic scar tactic of gay men being #Fundamentslly Dangerous to Children AND the racist scare tactic of south Asian men being fundamentally dangerous to children #Nimona is…. Very good. Like clearly thought happened in the making of this movie

[demigod-of-the-agni]

I knew there would be a day where people would fancast the whitest white boy on the planet who couldn't be farther from South Asia as Pavitr Prabhakar aka Spider-Man India, and it would be the day where I claw my own face off

But I didn't expect there to be a day for that guy to start listing MULTIPLE men of the whitest baking soda bleached papery gum tree bark ping pong ball PVC glue white variety with ONLY DEV PATEL, AKA TOKEN INDIAN OF WESTERN MEDIA, in the follow up reply

man im gonna need you to get off the internet and go back to kindergarten

#“I still kind of stand by it though. Im sure you can be white and be from India” bro's hopped up on something. i think it's racism #bait or no bait this fucking sucks #let us have our own people in the spotlight for once #like fucking indian media is all over western culture. india regurgitates all the white bullshit constantly #let's also add whiteness to a country that is literally shunning its own people?? multiple south asian countries who hate their own people? #get your eyes checked and your brain wiped clean #pavitr prabhakar #spider man india #i really did not want my day ruined but fuck that i guess. it was only a matter of time. there will be more

[belle-keys]

sick and tired of reading books by brown writers that are just about pain and intergenerational trauma. sick and tired of the abusive uncles and the dead mothers. sick and tired of the white man who’s the only one that makes the brown girl happy. sick and tired of the sexually repressed women, the culturally ingrained misogyny, the omnipresent racist abuse, the sinister family pasts. sick and tired of this revolving literary door of pain and anguish.

#books and literature #books #book blog #ya books #booklr #booksbooksbooks #book lover #south asian #desi #desiblr #muslim #muslimah #brown people #woc #poc writers #racism #literature #muslim writers #south asian writers #arab writers #persian writers #publishing #booktok #intergenerational trauma #internalized prejudice

[desthebolt]

Me, sitting here watching my entire dashboard get bombarded with splatfest grief: … Everyone okay? Yall want some fruit gushers and some water or some shit? Yall need a break?? Like what is happening rn

#des rambles #i want to be explicitly clear that i saw the results i know what happened #but like……….. i think if stuff like this is makin ya feel bad then i think it might be best to step out and take a breather #this is not meant to be rude or mean or passive aggressive. i am genuinely here telling yall to take care of your mental health #i didnt play this splatfest cause 1) i forgot and 2) when i remembered i knew i couldnt play w friends #so i didnt bother. cause i enjoy splatoon more w friends #also for anyone that comes in and is like ‘this is about racism towards frye and how she never gets wins’ im not denying that #i love frye so much. i was skeptical at first because nintendo is WEIRD with south asian rep and im literally south asian #so trust me. I GET IT #but like yall just need a break #if its not fun just take a break and come back another splatfest or play salmon run w friends #its sad to see so much bashing and negativity all at once #im not saying it shouldnt be talked about. but i think we all just gotta sit and relax for a bit

[reddiscourse]

I've never read an anti-transid argument that made genuine sense to me.

I'm pro-endo and all plurality too. How does someone being plural in a different way actually hurt anyone?

I guess I'm pro-be-your-ultimate-inner-self-even-if-its-cringe.

I don't want to be that guy but - we literally live on a floating rock when thinking about the vastness of the universe I don't me being trans-plural matters -

Good for you (for the pro-be-ur-ult-inner-self-even-if-cringe thing/g).

Yes, shit can hurt people, even if it isn't physical harm. Like for instance, having your disorder demedicalised (Autism, for instance, yes this is happening). Stigmatising ideas spreading faster through people faking disorders (this one applies to so many disorders, take it as a broad example). People who fetishise your nationality because they want to be cute (Take Japan for example). People who mimic your accent and the language of your ancestors because it's funny (Because having "yellow skin" and "slits for eyes" and "bucked teeth" aka "the regular Chinaman" is hilarious). People who think that it is OK to have a name of a culture that you are not apart of or involved in because they think that one to a few people speak for an entire race or culture (The entire discourse on this; of alters from Asian media who are not bodily Asian using their name from source or another name of that culture). Yes, that hurts people. Take a look through history and society before you waste your white-out on the textbook.

It isn't cringe, thank you. It's insulting. So what if we live on a floating rock? We LIVE on a floating rock. We are humans. News Flash! Humans have emotions. Humans have feelings. Animals have feelings. We have lives. We have goals and dreams and futures. We're human. Fine, downgrade everything to "existing on a floating rock in space"- that doesn't stop me from feeling hurt. From feeling insulted. Insecure. Ashamed. I don't give a shit what you identify as as long as it's an identity. There's a difference between identity and connection. Race is not an identity. I, as an Asian person, can never know what it's like to be Black. I, as a South-East Asian, can never know what it's like to be from the Middle East, or Central Asia. I, as an Asian person, can never know what it's like to be a White person. Why? Because I'm Asian. And I have emotions. And I have a history with people appropriating, making jokes at, and disrespecting me and my heritage. So my shittiest apologies for taking fucking offence, and for being hurt.

People who identify as TransAsian aren't actually, literally stabbing me. They aren't physically attacking and threatening me. But here's another news flash: people can feel fucking hurt when there is no physical damage. Someone ever yell at you for something you didn't do? Did someone ever betray you? Did someone ever make fun of you? That hurts you. They may not have pushed you or made any physical contact but it does hurt.

In the vastness of the universe, nothing fucking matters. You don't matter, I don't matter, climate change doesn't matter, nothing does. But you DO matter. I matter. Climate fucking change matters. We're human. You're human. You're alive. I'm alive. Have some fucking heart.

Apply that thinking to everything. Slavery? "Oh, we're on a rock in space, it doesn't matter how I treat you, even if it's inhuman, manipulative, abusive, selfish and fucked up." Women's rights? "We're on a rock in space, your emotions and thoughts don't matter. Your body and money does." China-Virus? "Oh, we're on a rock in space, it doesn't matter if I talk of a race of people like they are all the same. So what if people start murdering and beating up Asian people, blaming them for the virus? Not my fault. Nothing matters." Police brutality and BLM? "We're on a rock in space. Your life doesn't matter, nothing does. I will do what I fucking want."

"Actually" is where you fucked up. The fact that you made it stand out via italics doesn't help. Yes, it actually hurts people. "Actually being hurt" doesn't have to be a punch to the face or physical force and pain. Actually being hurt can mean name-calling. Actually being hurt can mean stereotypes. Actually being hurt can mean rumours. Actually being hurt can mean being betrayed. Actually being hurt can mean someone outing you. Actually being hurt can mean being persecuted to have your life taken away in a somehow legal way. Actually being hurt can mean fetishising. Actually being hurt can mean having your feelings taken as something less than a 10th of a nickel. Etc.

I know this isn't about trans-plurality like your ask states, but I'm taking a break from a majority of syscourse and system origins. I am not going to bring up trans-plural or state anything further on plurality for the time being. I know most of your ask was about plurality, so I'm sorry. This was extremely passive aggressive, or just plain aggressive. It was also very at you, anon. And my response wasn't even really connected to your ask, so the aggression was uncalled for. Just. Yk. People taking my the bullshit i've experienced and shoving them down the garbage disposal in a way of like "oh this? doesn't matter. the way that you're still thinking about this is sad and doesn't need looking into or talking about because it's not a valid experience because i can just easily identify as you and not have that experience" yk? Lol. But yes, things can actually hurt people, just FYI.

#anti transid #anti transrace #anti transx #anti ​diaracial #transrace discourse #anti endo #anti transracial #fucking bullshit #welcome to social studies #want a crash course on anti-asian racism? i am happy to oblige #transracial discourse #transx discourse #transid discourse #race isnt an identity thanks #its not an identity that you can pick and choose #why are so many people who are diaracial transkorean or transjapanese #kpop is why #vocaloid and anime is why #people only love japan for the food and the lights and the media #people only care for korea because of the media and that's only south korea #china has so many negative views about it and stereotypes surrounding Chinese people that I am not proud to be Chinese #I am here to talk about the racism of diaracial #that's it #that is the shit that i am most connected to and hurt by #yes hurt

[leonardalphachurch]

also to be clear like… i wasn’t making a grand statement i was making an offhand comment in the tags of a post. i’ve wanted to actually talk about the depiction of tucker’s tattoos in the fandom for a while but i’ve found it difficult to word it in a way that wouldn’t get people to react like anon did. and so when i saw a post of someone already expressing basically what i was trying to say, though in a much more general sense, i figured i’d just reblog it with a simple comment and trust that my followers would know me well enough to trust that my full opinion was much more nuanced than could be expressed in a kind of jokey two sentence tag on someone else’s post.

because like. there’s a long history of tattoos, especially face tattoos, being associated with criminality. and while i don’t think a single artist’s intention with drawing tucker with tattoos is to call forth that association it is still soemthing to be cognizant of. and when i talk about “vague tribal-esque tattoos” i’m talking about designs that give tucker these meaningless random squiggles that call to mind an “exotic” feel that many non-polynesians, especially white people, associate with being “tribal” tattoos. in reality, of course, actual tribal tattoos have very specific cultural meanings that aren’t just the cool looking symbols that are like. this is the first result of “tribal tattoo” on google images:

if you want to tell me you have not seen many tucker designs with basically the same design philosophy as these have then i will tell you that you are lying.

and if you have a question of like, how do i not design tattoos that fall into this trap, then i would say to like, give meaning and intention to the design? whether or not you think the sword automatically gave him the tattoos or if they were given to him by the sangheili, they would realistically be of GREAT religious significance. if you want inspiration i shared an example of the sangheili script but i would look at designs of the stylings and architecture and symbols used by the sangheili, the covenant, maybe even the forerunners. you can look to the design of the sword and extrapolate around that, using the shape to create more designs and symbols that follow the same design philosophy of it but like. they should have meaning to them. there should be a reason that these designs were the ones that were chosen to be put on tuckers body.

not only will doing this prevent you from falling into “vague cool looking tribal symbols” you’ll also get a design that’s much more unique, much more interesting, and much more meaningful.

#also i’m not saying that every design of tuckers tattoos have this problem. if that’s how you want to interpret me then you’re addicted to #bad faith readings and i would recommend taking a step back from online discourse #this isn’t rebloggable because i still don’t really want this to be like. my ‘take’ #and like straight up i will say that i have way more knowledge when it comes to anti black and #(south)east asian racism than i do about anti indigenous and polynesian racism #and if i were to say something i’d want to do way more research than i currently have #to be clear i’m not like. ignorant. i am confident in this statement and highly doubt it would change drastically with further research #but there’s a difference between being confident enough in a statement to express it and confident enough to have it spread outside of your #control. ykwim?

[fagdykefriendship]

[ID: screenshot of a tumblr post with the username cropped out reading “the way ive seen some people talk about anthy as if she's the only person of colour in the show as well as using white saviour to describe utena is so. yall are well aware everyone is japanese right? yall are well aware that japanese people are people of colour right? all are well aware that east asians are people of colour too RIGHT??” End ID]

^ posts that pissed me off today

this is just being willfully obtuse abt discussions of anthy’s race in rgu. utena isn’t a white savior in a literal sense, because she’s japanese? sure. but she’s a “white savior” in the sense of the connotations/meaning of the term. utena is in the racial majority at ohtori. the pale, japanese majority.

within japan, people are often incredibly racist towards southeast/south asians who are darker skinned (and also often come from poorer [aka more colonized] countries than japan, adding to the negative stereotypes associated with southeast/south asians)

i also want to point out the western aesthetic that utena draws from. look at ohtori, it’s architecture. it clearly draws from european designs rather than japanese. most of the duelists, other than saionji, practice fencing, a sport/style with european origins. the duelist outfits also lean into the looks of european nobility rather than japanese. the symbols of power/status, such as akio’s convertible and nanami’s cow bell, are also european (cow-stian dior, hello?). this is intentional. the powerful in utena are explicitly given a european aesthetic.

people who i’ve seen discuss anthy’s race don’t “ignore” everyone else being japanese. they use the word white savior because it’s the best term existing to describe utena, a girl who is associated with western aesthetics of power in the racial majority.

#sorry. just. don’t enjoy it when ppl misinterpret stuff like this especially in the utena fandom #rgu #feel free to discuss w me but. respectfully. #as a south asian. there’s lots of racism from east asians towards us. just bc we’re all ‘poc’ it doesn’t mean it’s not there

[lonelylesbian2]

Wish I was white

#🎀 #posts #vent post? #maybe #ok probably #yeah #vent #vent post #racism #tw: racism #from a poc #south asian