You are right. The Asian community needs to do better, there are way too many liberals in our community. Secondly, remember that you are in a radical space in this website. I feel that you should not need to mince words for good faith criticism amongst comrades. You said nothing controversial that isn't already well known. Lots of Asians totally buy into the model minority myth. PoC social media tends to intersect, and our dirty laundry is out for the world to see. The liberal wing of Asian identity politics has failed miserably the past few days for being tone deaf and ignorant. I've seen lib Asians asking Black people to hand out receipts once again over Black successes in the Jim Crow era (read a damn book instead of asking black people to do the intellectual labor!), stealing valor from the BLM movement by saying 'Asian Lives Matter', some Asian people (some who may just be white agitators) reacting to 'cultural appropriation' when a Black Woman wears traditional clothes from Asian cultures, etc.

Your feelings and anger are completely valid here. Your post IS constructive. I hope Asian people see this. Ignorance is not an excuse when so much trauma and damage has been done.

Guarantee you that the people still using those words are willing to talk about "precariat" and "labor aristocracy" which clearly became visible 70 years later.

Yep, that's exactly what he said. I personally did not see the connection until I saw those interviews.

What's interesting here is that Star Wars was inspired by world liberation movements. George Lucas said he came from a cultural anthropological perspective and said that he was inspired by how to view the world through systems, which is something a leftist would say. I don't blame anyone for blaming Star Wars for being fascist considering its assimilation into the American borg of pop culture though.

Damn these young people and their dabbing and tik tok!!!

Looks like you have a piece of Margaret Thatcher's heart, cold, black heart.

This is why I wished I had amazing photogenic memory so I can dunk on libs with historical facts.

'Salem Snow' sounds like a Dark Wave/Post-punk band name.

I'm going to guess that homebodies and introverts would be more likely to use it. Under socialism, you'd have time to meet people offline. The workplace hierarchy should be more horizontal and you might feel safer asking/being asked out by a co-worker as a result.

Asian TERFS exist. Asian-American internet is goddamn awful and lib as hell and quite frankly, really annoying. You have straight Asian males complaining about 'their' women being taken over by whites, and straight Asian women defending themselves and that dominates the internet. AA internet is oriented towards American bourgeois values, if you aren't a straight East Asian or Indian tech worker/STEM student who loves boba, k-pop, anime, and raves while you absorb model minority stereotypes you don't exist to them.

Like come on dude, just go to a fucking boba shop and you will find tons of Asian women who will only date Asian dudes, go to a dating site where tons of Asian women will dog whistle that they do not like white guys. Get over it and read some goddamn feminism. Talk about homelessness, health issues, class issues, and LGBTQ issues in our communities.

There are a quite a few leftist AA internet folks, but they have to walk a fine line within their communities because being a leftist brings a lot of baggage even to those older immigrants who agree with things like self-determination.

Also, fuck you and your family's egg monopoly and whatever similar stories your parents told to you about the old land.\

Edit: And the biggest reason you don't see POC TERFS is that TERFS in general are very good with optics. They will dogwhistle that they are TERFS, just look at how their discourse orients with liberal values. If you're a POC TERF, it's especially bad optics to be a TERF in the open. They'll just talk about girlboss energy and harry potter, that's usually a sign they're a TERF.

If you're a leftist, you are either a hippy who's idealistically optimistic or a nihilist who's being paid by george soros to destroy america with their hatred.

Source: my boomer auntie

Yup. Rap was getting popular? RAP IS CRAP. EDM was getting popular? They aren't playing real instruments! Pretty sure these fools were hating on disco back in its prime. Like , are you just trying to dog whistle that you hate gay black and brown people?

At least younger metal fans are less cliquey.

Kind of unrelated, but whenever im on r/japanlife on reddit, there's always tons of men complaining about their wives and how they turned into mothers after marrying them. To me, it sounds like these women are just tired of cleaning up after them.

It's the most late stage capitalist thing ever. You got a crazy Vietnam War vet who looks like he partook in the My Lai massacre, a sensei who still relives his Reagan era youth with hair metal and is pretty much stuck in the 80s, and a sheltered car salesman who is Mr. America Bourgeois values all trying to influence their poisonous energy on to kids who end up fighting each other and are on the receiving end of generational trauma. All while being played out through Okinawan Karate which was used as self defense against what we now call Japan, used by Americans in their suburban hell hole.

It's a fun spectacle.

I know quite a bit, but there's a reason for the lack of radical history online despite English being somewhat widely spoken, and having a thriving internet culture. Being a leftist is considered quite un-Filipino despite how syncretic their culture is (though there are many religious leftists there), the university and high school system is not equipped for critical social sciences, there's a general optimism towards America even more than Americans themselves but the always online younger generation are starting to get around to the fact that it's a shithole country.

Lots of Catholic universities which means some of the big name universities will teach from a continental-philosophy perspective which will also include tons of Marx. Red Baiting is at an all-time high right now probably, and saying "women's rights" can probably get you red-baited. There's a lot of socialist potential in the Philippines and a lot of Filipinos will agree that their landlord economy in the province is awful, but they don't want to ever call themselves socialist or even touch the word. Since it's quite obvious that America and China, combined with South Korean and Japanese soft culture there being pretty dominant, it doesn't take a genius to know that it is a warzone for soft power among powerful neighbors , there is also rising sinophobia in the Philippines even amongst the Duterte supporters, and Duterte wants good relations with China. The sinophobia is also tied with anti-communism.

Despite the country being staunchly way more anti-communist than the USA, partly in part thanks to the USA, and because it's being outsourced from the USA to the global south, it's not a shock to see that talking heads on Philippine news channels talk about Slavoj Zizek in articles and sometimes on tv. Communism does have independence movements in mind and the Filipino hegemon is tolerable towards them in a very complicated way.

Here are some facts and historical figures from the past, some details ill give you are googlable but you need to dig harder for reasons i stated before:

...I haven't listened to the revleft radio podcast, but I assume that they covered most bases, so here's some historical figures and events that will give the Philippine revolutionaries some context.

Andres Bonifacio - https://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/bonifacio.html He's a liberal figure, but widely respected among the left, right, up and down. The image leftists have of him is that he was the main fire of the revolution, a poor guy from Tondo (which is now one of the poorest places in the Philippines) who was discriminated by the rich revolutionary illustrados, and even killed by one of the illustrados. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilustrado

Jose Rizal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Rizal Another lib revolutionary, and the leftist oral history is from my understanding is that he was used by Americans much like MLK JR was used by Americans to use peace as a weapon to oppress. Rizal was kind of vague about Philippine independence, he's also a rich mestizo illustrado so of course he's going to be lauded as Philippines' national hero.

Hukbalahap - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukbalahap Anti-japanese guerilla movement with M-L tendencies which featured beauty queen turned commander...

Kumander Liwayway - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumander_Liwayway . Philippines wasn't sexist before the Spaniards and Americans came. Women were also commanders and soldiers throughout the islands. She was a beauty queen turned guerilla commander.

Maita Gomez - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maita_Gomez Another beauty queen who pretty much said "fuck this" to her bourgie life and went to the mountains with the rebels. Had involvement in anti-Marcos (Marcos was supported by the USA but this doesn't get spoken of much) movements too. Wikipedia says she co-founded Gabriella, but I do not know if this is the same Gabriella political party.

While many in the west see beauty contests as sexist parading of women, and many Filipinos see this too (I've heard around the leftist Filipino grapevine they have a leftist beauty pagent in some universities which are probably both ironic and sincere in nature), you have to see how pre-colonial non-sexist traditions merged with Spanish Madona/Whore complexes to create these interesting liberation figures.

Gabriela Party - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Women%27s_Party I vaguely remember Gabriella activists or politicians holding their nose in front of Duterte as he made sexist comments right before he was going to give some green light to a womens issue.

Gabriela Silang - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Silang anti-spanish warrior, and Philippine revolutionary. The leftist Gabriela Party is named after her.

Criticisms of the NPA - Struggle session time? https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/09/29/lett-s29.html Here are some criticisms of the NPA from a trotskyist. Also, do note that it's not uncommon to see books and documentaries critical of the NPA on Filipino TV from time to time, and you can most certainly find books on it too in the book stores. Lots of prefaces indicate that one should not throw the baby out with the bath water for the Filipino leftist project because of this and that their criticism of the NPA will be used as a way to destroy any liberation project. Of course, people ignore that and use it to bash any leftist project regardless of a well written preface.

Ok, so what's with all the revolutionary beauty queens and feminists you ask? It's pretty relevant to today's Filipino struggle. Just a few days ago, a flight attendant (many of who were/are beauty pageant participants) was raped and murdered:

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1379707/flight-attendants-rape-killing-pnp-says-its-case-closed-because-suspects-identified

The cops are red-baiting even the most relatively milquetoast demands of Filipino people and as many of you know, the drug war is just a war on poor people. The cops just closed the case and the Filipino people are just furious over police incompetence. Corona virus laws made protests hard and so all these Filipinos are complaining online to protest from another angle.

Just 2 months before, a General red-baited a beauty queen and celebrities for teaming up with Gabriela. They weren't calling for a Marxist struggle session, and I would not be surprised if some of them even cared for revolution. They were just talking about women's rights in general, language which is compatible with most western liberal democracies and all of a sudden they were communists. Check this out here: https://www.rappler.com/nation/parlade-warns-liza-soberano-supporting-gabriela-youth

Lastly, there is a perception in the Philippines that America and other western countries are progressive while Philippines is backwards. The perception is obviously in paternalistic America, but do know that Philippines is probably the best place to be a woman in Asia (not that big of an accomplishment, since the bar is low worldwide), and women do assert themselves for power there that would not be articulated as feminist there. Pre-colonial times had much more power for women and there are anecdotes from women who immigrate to the West that they find horribly sexist when they come to America.

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