Edit: you know what? Fuck this place. I’m not gonna argue with a bunch of pedantic assholes all day.

A short rant because I got banned for saying that there’s a lot of anti-blackness in the Asian community. (Basically, I said that a lot of people are heavily influenced by the handful of sensationalized reports of homeless mentally ill black people attacking Asian people. I also said that they weaponized their fear to end AA and increase already ballooning levels of mass incarceration.)

I’m tired of black oppression only being relevant when it can be directly used to argue for a larger caused. I’m tired of pointing out obvious racism only for people to turn around and be like, Nu-uh you’re the real racist! I’m tired of having to pretend that I’m not impacted by any of this only for other people to mock the oppression they also pretend isn’t real most of the time. I’m tired of wondering if being alive is even worth it not because I hate myself but because the world is so irrevocably racist, hypocritical and just nasty in general.

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    A short rant because I got banned for saying that there’s a lot of anti-blackness in the Asian community. (Basically, I said that a lot of people are heavily influenced by the handful of sensationalized reports of homeless mentally ill black people attacking Asian people. I also said that they weaponized their fear to end AA and increase already ballooning levels of mass incarceration.)

    Honestly its disappointing that this happened because its a real thing and pointing this out shouldn't be something that gets you banned.

    Edit: Just organizing my thoughts a bit and adding a bit more to this. But for those that seem to have a hard time understanding where this is coming from. Think about how all of these politicians and media sources are banging on about China. China is spying on you. China is the cause of the COVID pandemic. The Chinese have secret bases in the US, Canada, and Western Europe. China, China, China! This does a lot to increase anti-Asian hate. Yet do we see a lot of the larger [neo-liberal and conservative] Asian advocacy groups pointing out how these people are propagating negative feelings around Chinese and Asian people in general? Not as much as we should. But if a news story along the ones that whatap described comes out then, usually, there would be a statement released by one of these advocacy groups about the need to address anti-Asian hate, which is fine. But also comes up short when, as stated before, it doesn't really address the larger issue at hand of the American, and in particular white, elite is doing to propagate anti-Asian hate.