• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    4 years ago

    I’m just gonna say the Asian community shot Latasha Harlins

    One particularly racist Korean business tyrant shot Latasha Harlins.

    they shot at black people in the LA riots

    Largely a myth perpetuated by racist-ass white supremacists, who want to justify the police brutality that kicked off the LA Riots to begin with. No one was killed by "Roof Koreans". And, in the moment, a great deal of the outrage among Korean residents was aimed at the LAPD which had its own long sordid history of abusing and neglecting Koreatown residents.

    for all intents and purposes Asians have chosen what side they are on

    Jesus fucking Christ, this is a monstrously bad take.

    Even after you get off events thirty years in the rear-view mirror and specific to a single community of migrants in a single city, it implies some homogenous attitude among "Asians" that's laughably false. Some of the worst bigotries in Asian communities are between different Asian communities (mainlander Chinese versus Taiwanese/HKers, Koreans versus Japanese, Japanese versus Chinese, Japanese versus Vietnamese, Basically Everyone against Indonesians and Malaysians).