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dstriple · 3 years
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If you were to read the replies to all those tweets, you will notice that racist gamers once again are feeling personally attacked.
They really believe that they're the real victims here...
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tilde44 · 3 years
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The history of Black and Asian relations in the U.S. is fraught. Anti-Black racism has existed in the Asian community, and anti-Asian racism has existed in the Black community. The recent actions of solidarity come at a pivotal moment as calls for improving the security and safety of elder Asian Americans have sparked concerns about the next course of action. Community leaders have warned against more policing, given law enforcement’s pattern of disproportionately targeting Black and brown individuals. “We’re not safe until all people of color are safe. Safety doesn’t come in the form of heavier policing calls or of carceral state oppression of poor communities,” Dao-Yi Chow tells TIME. Chow, who is Chinese American, was one of the organizers of Running to Protest’s “Black & Asian Solidarity” rally. “That’s only continuing to align ourselves with white supremacy. And if we continue to do that, those are anti-Black acts that’s only going to continue to drive divisions in between our communities,” Chow says.
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stachestachestache · 3 years
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Sorry to interrupt the usual feed but my heart is breaking at this news. This was a crime targeting Asian businesses. 6 of the 8 victims were Asian women... White supremacy affects us too. None of us will be safe until we are all safe. Let’s fight to make sure this doesn’t happen to any group, race, ethnicity, culture etc. Please hug your AsAm friends, family a little tighter today.
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saintsuga · 3 years
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BTS via Twitter
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asraspeaks2 · 3 years
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Inna lilahi wa inna ilayhi rajioon
White supremacy killed these innocent people.
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dailydanneelackles · 3 years
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danneelackles512: I know that today is a day of celebration for me but with so many in this country and around the world hurting, I would rather remain focused on spreading the word about the racist, white supremacist virus that is sweeping our nation. In lieu of well wishes please consider donating to @stopaaiphate or any other anti- racism organization. (x)
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positivexcellence · 3 years
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hilarieburton:  It is my bff’s Birthday. And so I am amplifying @danneelackles512 ‘s latest post, and making a donation. #stopasianhate . Repost from @danneelackles512 • I know that today is a day of celebration for me but with so many in this country and around the world hurting, I would rather remain focused on spreading the word about the racist, white supremacist virus that is sweeping our nation. In lieu of well wishes please consider donating to @stopaaiphate or any other anti- racism organization. Repost from @Sonjarasula I am not okay. A mass shooting killed numerous women last night in Atlanta. Numerous Asian women. As an Asian American and a woman - already exhausted from, well, my entire life and last year - I am tired, frustrated and sickened. • if you are not aware of the insane rise in violence towards Asians, almost 4000 anti-Asian crimes last year with multiple murders for example, you need to broaden your network just as you did last year for BLM. Where is your solidarity and empathy now? I’m asking for your help. Many don’t have Asian friends and/or follow many Asian people, change that now. • Asian women have been continually sexualized and fetishized, this needs to stop now! We are not your exotic playthings. • Asian women have also been and continue to be the butt of jokes, how many times have you heard “me love you long time”? • There is a massive misconception around AAPI folks — we are not crazy rich and we are not doing okay. the fact is 1 in 4 Asian Americans lives below the poverty line and Harvard Business Review recently released that Asians are the LEAST likely BIPOC in the workplace to be promoted. The PERCEPTION is that Asians are managers and successful, but the reality is we are not. • a HUGE part of the AAPI community (esp older generations) has a language barrier and so doesn’t report crimes, talk about being a victim, which further adds to a misunderstanding that everything is fine • classism and misogyny and colonialism run DEEP, it’s not just racism at work here. The only way forward is for ALL marginalized communities to come together, stop letting history divide us all and come together as one majority to move forward.
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tilde44 · 3 years
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The word bich means a kind of jade. Growing up, I knew that Vietnamese girls were supposed to wear jade bracelets and grow into them so that one day the bracelets would be permanent. The stone is meant to protect, to heal—and the greener the jade, the better. In a different country, in a different life, my given name would be just as beautiful. In truth, I could never wear a bracelet very long. In truth, most of the people who have claimed to like the name Bich, or who have been outraged and horrified at the idea of changing it, have been white women. They are the ones who told me the name was cool, was interesting, was unique, was being true to myself, was an important part of my heritage and cultural identity. They said that they liked the name, that it would break their hearts if I changed it. They did not say that they wished to have the name themselves. I wanted to believe them; for a long time, I made a choice to believe them. But I knew, too, that they liked the exotic so long as they didn’t have to deal with its complications. They liked the idea of the exotic, not thinking about how exotic might benefit the person deciding what exotic is. Sometimes I wondered whether they also liked feeling bad for me.
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tilde44 · 3 years
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In 1970, Asian Americans were the least unequal of any ethnic group. By 2016 they were the most. While the income of the bottom 10% of black people has increased by two-thirds over the past 50 years, that of the bottom decile of Asians has improved by just 11%. The income of the top 10% of Asian Americans has, however, rocketed.
Indians are the most successful of Asian groups: 40% of over 25s possess a postgraduate degree; just 7.5% live in poverty. That contrasts with the 28% of Hmong, a people of Chinese ancestry, who live below the poverty line. Almost half of Vietnamese have no education beyond high school. The median income of Laotians is barely half that of Indians. There is, in other words, no such thing as an “Asian community”, still less one that is uniformly affluent or highly educated.
Nevertheless, the myth has persisted, particularly on the left. Many of those now denouncing attacks on Asians as products of “white supremacy” were just a few months ago insisting that they were “privileged”, even “embracing whiteness”. As with Jews, the myth of privilege has allowed many to ignore the racism that Asians face.
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tilde44 · 3 years
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It makes me question whether I really had a “temper” as a child, as I was told, or whether I was merely isolated by racism among racists, afraid and angry?
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There’s a difference between fighting racists and fighting racism. Where my father stayed silent, I have learned I have to speak out, which has felt, even while writing this, a little like betraying him. And as a biracial gay Korean American man, I don’t experience the same identifications or misidentifications he did. I am mistaken for white, or at least “not Asian,” as often as I’m mistaken for Chinese, and have felt like a secret agent as people speak in front of me about Asians in ways they would not otherwise. I learned most of my adult coping strategies for street violence from queer activist organizations after college.
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tilde44 · 3 years
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“Sexual purity theologies are tied to white supremacy because Asian women have a transcontinental history of being hypersexualized and fetishized through Orientalism and militarism in Asian nations,” Hong said. “You can be a 65-year-old grandmother whose job is to feed co-workers at an Asian-owned day spa and suddenly you are a sex worker, a ‘temptation’ for white men. These dangerous theologies erase the lives and personhood of the Asian women the shooter murdered and instead make them solely temptations to be eliminated. He preserves his righteousness by eliminating the temptation.”
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K. Christine Pae, chair of the department of religion at Denison University in Ohio, said some structures of racialized misogyny date to the longstanding hierarchical dualism between body and spirit in the European church. Anything associated with the body was seen as sinful, and women and people of color were viewed as being closer to the body. Because “sexuality is still also associated with Christian imagination of sin, especially original sin,” Pae said, women of color were seen as exceptionally sexual.
She said the Western church has long held up two images of women — the Virgin/Whore dichotomy. The first is the sexually pure Virgin Mary, usually associated with white women, which became the “number one reality that every woman thought they should pursue,” Pae said, in contrast to the “whore woman, the promiscuous woman,” often depicted also as a foreign woman throughout the Bible, from the Book of Hosea to Revelation.
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tilde44 · 3 years
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Participate in the 3/26 Virtual National Day of Action and Healing.
Let’s mourn those we’ve lost and join together across the country in saying STOP ASIAN HATE. Check out our toolkit and join us on social media using #StopAsianHate.
#stopasianhate
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tilde44 · 3 years
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Strangely, making the connection between systemic racism and cultural appropriation feels easier right now. Around the United States, Asians and Asian Americans are speaking up against an uptick in incidents of racism perpetrated against them, which range from verbal abuse to fatal acts of violence, and unlike instances in the past, it feels like more people are listening. The idea that no one cares about crimes against Asians pops up frequently in our communities, adding a slimy layer to the phenomenon of Asian cuisines being extremely popular in the American restaurant scene.
In urban centers, popular white-owned restaurants serving Asian cuisine have been a common sight for decades, from the Pho chain in the United Kingdom to O Ya in Boston to Le Colonial in San Francisco — restaurants that mimic Asian cultures without suffering stigmas that they’re dirty, cheap or using illicit ingredients. Are they appropriating or appreciating when they launder Asian food and art? You might ask what a restaurant filled with chinoiserie has to do with anti-Asian violence. The fact that these things can exist at the same time with an air of total disconnection is the problem. With one hand, the West can sell you noodles, purportedly as a show of love for your culture; with the other, it can sign the papers to get you deported.
So maybe now is when more people will understand what lies beyond appropriation: how to fix this sense of detachment from reality and actually help people in real life.
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tilde44 · 3 years
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