Great OP and thread, thanks everyone for sharing. Such stark times, but I'm confident we'll come out stronger/better.
I've told multiple white people IRL that the spike in intolerance and racial aggression is real and I get laughed off. Privilege is a hell of a drug.
I've told multiple white people IRL that the spike in intolerance and racial aggression is real and I get laughed off. Privilege is a hell of a drug.
IIRC there are much higher rates of schizophrenia among people who are minorities where they live. Reading stuff like this, it makes perfect sense. Another layer in which racially "fitting in" is a massive privilege.My mother stopped telling other people we were Chinese sometime in my teens. I didn't think much of it at the time, but I've come to realize that it did have a lasting effect on me. Slowly I started becoming less comfortable with my ethnicity. Slowly I started feeling ashamed. Slowly I started to resent lunar new year parades and lion dances and dim sum, because they reminded me of who I was. Chinese. And being Chinese was a bad thing.