John Cho: Coronavirus reminds Asian Americans belonging is conditional
I’ve learned that a moment always comes along to remind you that your race defines you above all else.
www.latimes.com
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John Cho (LA Times Op-ed): Coronavirus reminds Asian Americans like me that our belonging is conditional
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www.latimes.com
It's really awful that people are like this, but not surprising unfortunately. Especially since I can bet you the reaction would not even be remotely similar if the virus had just happened to start in a european country and not an asian one
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Yes, this horrendous hate crime is a perfect example of what can happen out there. This is why the WHO urged people to call it COVID19 or coronavirus, not chinese flu or other stupid racist shit our president propagates.
Stabbing of Asian-American 2-Year-Old and Her Family Was a Virus-Fueled Hate Crime: Feds
Federal authorities say a Texas teenager stabbed three individuals in a Sam’s Club this month because “he thought the family was Chinese and infecting people with the coronavirus.”
www.thedailybeast.com
Conservatives value ingroup loyalty, and order more than liberals.
So things like diversity scare the hell out of them.
Things would be much simpler if everyone was white, Christian and there were only 2 genders etc.
It's their ultimate goal, a white ethnostate. You can see this in the people that trump surrounds himself with.
Define "white."
The ruling class will always find ways to divide along ethno-cultural lines. Back in the day, Irish, Italians, Eastern Europeans, and anyone not consider White Anglo-Saxon were considered subhuman.
Oh god, those post-9/11 "random searches". They used to flag your ticket. I was visiting colleges at the time and after a while could immediately tell if I was going to be "randomly" searched. I even started calling it out when they gave me the ticket a few times, and you could see them crawl into their skin and just say "it's random". Sure, lady. I started giving my bags to my mother before I went through security so I didn't have anything for them to search. What a great system they had going there.
This whole thing reads like a direct response to Andrew Yang's article.
This whole thing reads like a direct response to Andrew Yang's article.
latimes should give you a quota for free articles. us a browser you don't normally use and just make sure its not in incognito mode
The Asian diaspora will never be seen as belonging in the countries they live/were born in, no matter how much we "prove" ourselves. We're also a group whose concerns are easily ignored by those around us so it's up to the community to protect ourselves, whatever it takes. Sick of this stay quiet and take it bullshit peddled by Yang and his ilk.
Yup. That's why the "model minority" myth never holds any weight. Doesn't matter how successful you are, how you talk, how you dress, what company you keep, or who you marry. You will never truly be one of them.
Yup.
We're tolerated because we're 'useful', until we are a threat.
Haha this brings back bad memories. I was searched on every flight i took for like 2 years after 9/11. I vividly recall being searched 4 separate times on a single trip.
Eventually I figured out that it was due to a combination of factors, but most importantly because I was purchasing my tickets using my dad's credit card. More than anything, i was just disgusted by the laziness. Every single time, I'd think "you know guys, this searching thing doesn't really work if you're so damned predictable."
I remember Steve Bannon ranting about how many "Asian CEOs" exist in Silicon Valley.
And now they're considered white, shitting on black people,Asians and Hispanics.
I think he always knew. There just wasn't an appropriate time to say it until now.
This reminds me of a video I watched a while back of a Q&A of an Asian film. One of the things that was very poignant was how Asian Americans are always going to be an outside participant of American society.
I used to have a coworker who was brown and had religious tattoos on his arms.
He said he got "randomly selected" so consistently that he knew their whole procedure by heart.
Asians always knew, we just have a shitty habit of keeping it to ourselves.
I fucking knew since was in middle school, in NYC.
Ya'll need to stop acting like Asian Americans live their life with their head in the sand all the time.
I fucking knew since was in middle school, in NYC.
Ya'll need to stop acting like Asian Americans live their life with their head in the sand all the time.
When this happened to me, they had a "secret code" on the ticket. It was really hard to decipher, just a series of "SSSSSSSSSSSSS" that was clearly present on my ticket but not my mother's.....not even a joke.
Unfortunately that statement will continue to be true for a long time and not just in the US but throughout the world.
It's funny how Andrew Yang just completely obliterated any credibility he had among the AA community in mere moments
He did do one thing right, though.
He got everyone talking about UBI. Not a new concept, but somehow with him it caught on. Right place, right time, luck, whatever. It worked.
They are correct to bring it up. Whiteness is a social construct designed to keep and deny power. If everyone was white as current views define it, whiteness would evolve to mean something else so that people would still be excluded.
Had similar thoughts when I read this op-ed
To be honest, this is a flawed and dangerous outlook. Racism does not come exclusively from conservatives, and to say it does hand-waves the racism and xenophobia perpetrated by the left.
It's a big problem even on this very board, and it's not really acknowledged because it's being attributed to the out group.
That's not the only thing they did, but it's one of the only things taught in school.
Same difference though. From a casual glance the bigger NYC media covered cases the perpetrators have been minorities (black, latino) but its been the exact white supremacist thought process through when you read about the exchange in the articles "Go back to your own country" etc. Absurdity.
When white supremacy decides to turn up the heat, its a domino effect of internalized racism. Hell, ive seen some questionable excuses here on Asian on Asian bias when people were defending their aunties boycotting Chinese restaurants.
I'm a Canadian of Pakistani descent. With curious consistency, I have had random searches with a large percentage of my flights.
This of course isn't also counting the times my name has been flagged on the no-fly list where someone has to make a phonecall so I can check in at all.
No, they're not correct to bring it up. Yes, it's an accurate statement, but it's also a disingenuous one since it's often used by white people to dismiss their role in the power structure because they're Eastern European white and not classical Anglo-Saxon white when both enjoy the same exact power dynamic in society.