Stop Asian hate can be used to combat yellow peril and China bad without watering down police abolition and systemic racism in our justice system. Libs would love to combine all of these things into one to neutralize it
Stop Asian hate can be used to combat yellow peril and China bad without watering down police abolition and systemic racism in our justice system. Libs would love to combine all of these things into one to neutralize it
Like the "rooftop koreans" during the Rodney King riots, white reactionaries will gladly use violence against Asian minorities as an excuse to bolster anti-black sentiment and strengthen the police.
Since Black Lives Matter is specifically about violence caused by over-policing, and the Asian hate crimes were caused by citizens, there's an opportunity to use a phrase like Asian Lives Matter as a bad faith counterpoint to BLM. "BLM wants fewer police? Well police would have stopped this anti-asian violence. Don't Asian Lives Matter too?"
I don't know if that's necessarily such a serious problem, since I doubt any of these hashtags are going to gain that much traction, but it is something to keep in mind.
I think this might be the take that comes out on top unfortunately.
The easy counter is "oh, like how the police stopped all those other mass shooters?"
This is a decent article from the other year
Bad faith actors are going to try to act in bad faith regardless, so I don't see that it makes much sense to structure what we do and say around them.
The basic bad faith reasoning in the example "works" no matter what slogans we adopt.
Nah, figuring out what bad faith reactionaries will want to say in advance and structuring what we say to make it harder for them to say it is good messaging.
Same concept as the "inoculation" pretty much everyone teaches in organizer training.
You can go overboard with it but it's definitely something you should be considering if you're trying to coordinate a social media campaign.