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Andrew Yang pens op-ed on rise of anti-Asian racism: "...saying “Don’t be racist toward Asians” won’t work"
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He actually said that.
I already figured out Yang would give an answer like this based on his past comments about race but to write this is very absurd for even that model minority rationale.
I never thought I'd hear Mr. Peanutbutter cuss. Erika must be teaching you well.
Whoa, that's a shockingly bad and idiotic take.
like, I've always liked Yang but that's enough to nearly completely change my mind on him
like, I've always liked Yang but that's enough to nearly completely change my mind on him
You say this as if the racism isn't what drives Asian Republicans towards being Republicans.
True that. Surprisingly didn't consider it though I'm well acquainted with most forms of AA racism, outgoing, incoming and internal.
Just to expand, my boss is Korean American. When COVID first got bad in China in January/February, he was saying that Chinese university students in the US needed to be forcibly quarantined against their will regardless of their exposure to the virus. Then once it broke out here, and the spike in anti-Asian sentiment rose, he and his wife started talking about how horrible that was. And you know what? They are right, it is horrible and I empathize with them. But they were fine doing it themselves when it was against Chinese people specifically...until it started to become risky for them. There is some lack of self-awareness going on there.
God most people of voting age lived through 9/11 how did we forget what the aftermath of that was so quickly
It's a charitable interpretation of this Op-Ed that Yang 'forgot' about that; rather, this seems way more like a Leopard's Eating Faces Party/"I never thought they'd eat MY face" situation.
See also: Andy Ngo's...existence...
So he's asking us to double down on being the model minorities? Oh yeah, that worked just fine.
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What happens if an Asian in Texas shoots a hostile racist in a stand your ground defense with an openly carried gun. 🤔
Basically. I grew up in North America, speak with an American accent, and dress pretty western. I was in college when 9/11 happened. Nothing I did stopped white people giving me the stink eye as I walked to class. The palpable anger in their eyes was fucking terrifying. I was lucky to have a large group of friends that weren't morons.
Given the context, yeah it's really not.
People forget that the LA Riots happened not only because of Rodney King, but also because Soon Ja Du shot 9th grader Latasha Harlins in the back of the head as she was running away from her and she was given a $500 fine and probation.
The Korean Americans on the rooftops were...preparing to shoot black people.
Don't be silly he's not asking us to be more white.
He's asking us to suck up to whites.
He already suspended his presidential campaign. Why is he still virtue signalling to 4chan about being "one of the good ones"?
To other Asian-groups in other countries. In Switzerland for example, it's generally encouraged to be multilingual.
Chinese as ethnicity (but i guess the Asian in general) can be quite elitist and classist (since racist would not be the correct term there).
In China big city they look down on rural people.
In Hong kong and Singapore there is quite a bit of discrimination against Chinese coming from China or the nearby country.
I'm sure stuff it's improving, it just take some time.
Racist is the right term when referring to hatred of specific ethnic groups. Which is what my post was referencing. But yes it's an entire cycle, Anti-Chinese sentiment is rampant in Japan, anti-japanese sentiment is rampant in Korea, anti-Korean sentiment is rampant in China, and around and around it goes. And that's not even getting into what all these cultures think of southeast asians (and vice versa).
Racism exists in every single culture in the entire world. And I'm talking systemic, powerful, destructive racism. It is everywhere
Eh, Korean -> Chinese -> Japanese are like the racism trifecta in East Asia lol. All three are racist towards each other.
I was more referring the discrimination inside the Chinese ethnicity itself. Like the rich black family looking down on other blacks coming from a different background.
This is some Booker T Washington "Make ourselves indispensable to the White race" shit.
It doesn't work.
It doesn't work.
Yeah but there is a much more obvious example than what you gave: the Uighurs
Probably my world were not clear, was meaning Han Chinese and it's diaspora, so racism it would be not the correct term (as you would need to hate your own race) classism would be better.
Uighurs are Chinese Citizen, but not Han Chinese, so in that case racism would fit better, but honestly i never been in the area, so i don't know the general sentiment between the ethnicity there. My guess not good given the news.
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sounds like the writing of a guy who thought a $1000/month freedom dividend would be better than medicare for all
Conservatives hear in the UK have made uncle tom out to be a racial slur... wonder why ay?
This Uncle Tong again.
As someone who is half Chinese, I'm interested in this topic. I recently read an interesting book called the The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority. Asians in the 40s tried the all American assimilation thing but white supremacy still didn't give a fuck.
As someone who is half Chinese, I'm interested in this topic. I recently read an interesting book called the The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority. Asians in the 40s tried the all American assimilation thing but white supremacy still didn't give a fuck.
My Asian American friends were not happy with this take to say the least.
"The cure for racism is to embrace model minority status" is silly on its face because dude ran for president and still isn't too big to catch a slur in public. The cure for racism is education and exposure.
"The cure for racism is to embrace model minority status" is silly on its face because dude ran for president and still isn't too big to catch a slur in public. The cure for racism is education and exposure.
Same old shit that has been said before. He's a smart guy and obviously he has his lived experience and viewpoint, but I'm not sure I agree with it.
Rings similar to "Muslims should show that they are true Americans and not terrorists!"
Rings similar to "Muslims should show that they are true Americans and not terrorists!"
Imagine having to prove your loyalty to your country because of your non-white ethnicity. Then again, the west has a history of putting its own citizens in internment camps because of their ethnicity because a country where that ethnicity is the majority acted in a belligerent manner.
Of course, lest it be forgotten, Irish and Italians got fucked over as well in the US for different reasons that ended with similar kinds of discrimination. Nowadays however, I'd reckon no one who is white and either they or their past family emigrated from EU/Russia/Aus/NZ/SA etc to US would be victims of racist attacks because of a pandemic which originated in their "heritage" country.
It is a very ill judged comment from Andrew that reinforces the need to be part of the "model minority" collective to be seen as equal to the white americans.
Of course, lest it be forgotten, Irish and Italians got fucked over as well in the US for different reasons that ended with similar kinds of discrimination. Nowadays however, I'd reckon no one who is white and either they or their past family emigrated from EU/Russia/Aus/NZ/SA etc to US would be victims of racist attacks because of a pandemic which originated in their "heritage" country.
It is a very ill judged comment from Andrew that reinforces the need to be part of the "model minority" collective to be seen as equal to the white americans.