#stop aaip hate

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The history of Black and Asian relations in the U.S. is fraught. Anti-Black racism has existed in the Asian community, and anti-Asian racism has existed in the Black community. The recent actions of solidarity come at a pivotal moment as calls for improving the security and safety of elder Asian Americans have sparked concerns about the next course of action. Community leaders have warned against more policing, given law enforcement’s pattern of disproportionately targeting Black and brown individuals. “We’re not safe until all people of color are safe. Safety doesn’t come in the form of heavier policing calls or of carceral state oppression of poor communities,” Dao-Yi Chow tells TIME. Chow, who is Chinese American, was one of the organizers of Running to Protest’s “Black & Asian Solidarity” rally. “That’s only continuing to align ourselves with white supremacy. And if we continue to do that, those are anti-Black acts that’s only going to continue to drive divisions in between our communities,” Chow says.

#stop asian hate #stopasianhate #stop aaip hate #stopaaiphate #black lives matter #blacklivesmatter #end white supremacy #race #racism

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Ngl kinda tired that the black lives matter tag is currently atm just that new marvel series atm like that's what I've been seeing a lot and it's annoying because as much as I understand the sentiment, I don't trust anything from Disney because of its history with racism as well as just the shitty stuff they've done before. If there is good commentary in that show then honestly we should lift up the writers who had put that commentary and of course for the actor that plays Falcon, Anthony Mackie because just praising Disney is very naive and shit. Disney as a corporation wants to appease because of money, not really because they care unfortunately.

I miss when the black lives matter tag had resources and educational posts and shit, I'm thankful of whatever posts I see that was actually resources or educational history or even just posts of and from black people. I'm also relieved that we're also putting that same energy we had last year over black lives matter towards stop Asian hate. We need solidarity against white supremacists, that's obvious but I'm still gonna say it because that doesn't detract from the truth of the matter.

#black lives matter #blm #blacklivesmatter #stop aaip hate #stop asian hate #racism #white supremacy

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STOP AAIPI HATE DONATION

STOP AAPI HATE RESOURCES

#stop aaip hate #hate is a virus #aapi month

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okay, time for me to talk about this as a fellow asian. this might be a hard to swallow pill, but...

every time you compare asian issues to black lives matter you’re discrediting your own movement 👌🏽 that much more. stop trivializing black trauma to bring attention to yours. it’s disgusting, and our oppression should not be tied to, compared to or measured to someone else’s. continuing to trivialize black struggles to uplift your own is literally just delegitimizing our movement. it hurts everyone except white people.

keep reading underneath, i just realized this post was long and don’t want to take up a ton of space

stop playing into the model minority, it’s a myth for a reason, get your head out of your ass, and do something about it instead of complaining about why the black community isn’t standing with us.

they are, you’re just not caring enough to look

it’s our movement. you can’t expect another racial minority to start a movement for us. people will follow if we do it right, but we have to start that conversation.

doing it “right” means you need stop saying things like “we stood with blm why aren’t they helping us”, “where’s the energy you had for blm for aaip” and “but blm right” as soon as someone from the black community does something wrong. black lives matter is a movement to end police brutality. all it means is that black lives matter. and they do. one person screwing up doesn’t change that they don’t deserved to be murdered for their race by a system put in place to protect them. the movement is not a comparison tool, and it’s not something you can use to measure how oppressed or not oppressed a group is, so stop. that kind of rhetoric is incredibly anti black, especially during black history month. 

no more using the phrase “racism against asians is so normalized”. it insinuates racism against others isn’t normalized, when it is. the reason our struggles seem less visible to society is because it’s done to uphold the model minority myth. like we’ve been saying, the model minority myth only benefits white people, and is a tool of oppression for everyone else, including asian people. it’s not a good thing. racism in general is normalized. hypervisibility doesn’t make racism against another group not normalized in society. 

we are owed nothing for being decent people for standing up for literal human rights. if the extent of your activism is simply to be able to throw your support in their face later on in order to guilt them into helping you when you need it, you are not an activist. you’re a piece of shit. activism is not transactional, and that kind of bullshit is so performative. if you consider yourself an activist, you do not get to pick and choose when you can be an activist and when not to be one when it’s convenient for you. that’s not how it works. 

people aren’t going to take our movement seriously if you care more about complaining about the lack of support, rather than doing something to gain support. comparing it to someone else’s trauma is not making your argument any more valid. stop doing that shit. i’m not saying it’s fair that this is how the world works, but it’s how the world works nonetheless and you have to be willing to adjust to whatever changes there are to make your voice heard. like i said before, people will follow us if we start it, we just have to do it the right way. no more disrespecting other people, no more comparisons to other groups, no more downplaying and devaluing other people’s trauma. poc are not a monolith, and our struggles are going to be different. comparing them, again, is only benefitting white people and white supremacy in the end. 

here’s a carrd regarding anti asian violence that was made. it has links to education sources, donations, mental health resources, etc. use your voice the right way. complaining about how no one is talking about these issues without providing the adequate resources to change them isn’t going to help anyone. we need to do better. 

edit: here’s another resource

#asian #stop asian hate #racism

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I will never respect a pro gun person again I never will

#if you’re pro gun unfollow me n kindly fuck yourself n ask if precious people deserve to be taken from this world every time you open #your mouth #block me #he was a good person. #we were friends so long ago- but I will never get to see him again #no one will. #how is that okay #brewgie rants #gun violence #stop aaip hate #death tw #shooting tw

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Profound. Poetic. Brilliant. (Stop AAIP Hate NOW)

#bookrecommendation

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The word bich means a kind of jade. Growing up, I knew that Vietnamese girls were supposed to wear jade bracelets and grow into them so that one day the bracelets would be permanent. The stone is meant to protect, to heal—and the greener the jade, the better. In a different country, in a different life, my given name would be just as beautiful. In truth, I could never wear a bracelet very long. In truth, most of the people who have claimed to like the name Bich, or who have been outraged and horrified at the idea of changing it, have been white women. They are the ones who told me the name was cool, was interesting, was unique, was being true to myself, was an important part of my heritage and cultural identity. They said that they liked the name, that it would break their hearts if I changed it. They did not say that they wished to have the name themselves. I wanted to believe them; for a long time, I made a choice to believe them. But I knew, too, that they liked the exotic so long as they didn’t have to deal with its complications. They liked the idea of the exotic, not thinking about how exotic might benefit the person deciding what exotic is. Sometimes I wondered whether they also liked feeling bad for me.

#stop asian hate #stop aaip hate #stopasianhate #stopaaiphate

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if you think it’s funny or okay to use the racist phrase ‘ching chong’ in ANY manner, in ANY context, for ANY reason, you are a fucking racist piece of shit and i hope you die.

#stop asian hate #stop aaip hate #and fuck off #this includes asians #duh

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#stop asian hate #stop aaip hate #stopasianhate #stopaaiphate

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#stop asian hate #stop aaip hate #a boy named su

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In the years leading up to the pandemic, Asian American politics tended toward the ornate and insular. An unusual amount of energy seemed to be expended on matters of Hollywood representation, which, when distilled to its essence, is a demand by the already privileged for access into one of the few industries that won’t have them. The more radical version of Asian American politics was ultimately nostalgic — an attempt to reclaim the ’60s and ’70s and genuine civil rights heroes like Grace Lee Boggs, the labor and Black Power activist, and Yuri Kochiyama, who had lived in an internment camp and famously cradled Malcolm X’s head as he lay dying — and called for solidarity with Black and Brown people. These ties are nice and inspirational, but they do not mean anything to a vast majority of Asian Americans who came to this country post Hart-Celler. The Berkeley students who coined the phrase “Asian American” had probably come from families that were in this country for generations and lived as anomalies in a country that was Black and white. Given a choice, those activists identified with Black people and tried to forge solidarity among all those who had suffered under American imperialism and white supremacy.

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Every few months I come across assimilated Asian men venting on social media about the time one of their white neighbors in buildings just like mine in Brooklyn mistook them for delivery men, inevitably followed by a firm statement of their credentials: “I guess he didn’t know, I am a journalist/doctor/lawyer/hedge-fund manager!” It’s embarrassing for both sides when this happens, but the implication has always felt so bizarre to me; the real offense is being mistaken for being poor. What sets modern, assimilated Asian Americans apart, when it comes to these sorts of differentiations made by so many immigrant groups, is that our bonds with our brothers and sisters are mostly superficial markers of identity, whether rituals around boba tea, recipes or support for ethnic-studies programs and the like. Indignation tends to be flimsy — we are mad when white chefs cook food our parents cooked, or we clamor about what roles Scarlett Johansson stole from Asian actors. But the critiques generally stay within those sorts of consumerist concerns that do not really speak to the core of an identity because we know, at least subconsciously, that the identity politics of the modern, assimilated Asian American are focused on getting a seat at the wealthy, white liberal table. Or, if we want to be generous, we fight about food and representation and executive-suite access because we want our children to live without really having to think about any of this — to have the spoils of full whiteness.

We, in other words, want to become as white as white will allow. For the first three decades of my life, this process felt inevitable. I tried on several different selves with wildly contradictory politics: a radical, a revolutionary Marxist in my teens, a Buddhist in my early 20s, followed by a bout of self-destruction and then a more stable period as a professional writer. During those phases, each of which was deeply felt, it never occurred to me that I wouldn’t end up fine. In retrospect, I don’t really know why I believed that — things could certainly have gone wrong, and for a while in my 20s, they did — but because I knew all my middle-class Asian and white friends would be fine, it followed that I would be, too.

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Our narratives are ultimately nation-building exercises — a way for “Asian American” to mean something more than “someone with ancestry from the continent of Asia.” But they also work to erase the more meaningful differences between ascendant, educated individuals and the working-class, sometimes undocumented people who seem to be most at risk to fall victim to the sort of violence that has been on the rise. Six of the eight people murdered in Georgia were Asian, yes, but they also were mostly poor women with a shallow foothold in this country. (The dead also included a white woman whose Latino husband was in the spa when she was killed. He was handcuffed by responding police officers who, according to Spanish-language news sources, ignored him for hours while he pleaded to know if his wife was alive.) In the days after the attack, social media was full of Asian Americans talking about their collective trauma: the shame of Americanizing one’s name and complaints about strangers asking, “Where are you from?”

I do not mean to judge these responses; they were made by people who were grieving and scared and who wanted to reclaim the status of “people of color” and remind everyone that we, too, suffer violence from white supremacy. Nor is this merely a taxonomical complaint. But as long as these tragedies reroute the specific class, immigration and gender politics at play into the squishier problems of professional Asian Americans, the nation that’s built will too often ask, “Why aren’t we treated like white people?” instead of, “What can we do to liberate ourselves and all other oppressed people?”

#stop asian hate #stop aaip hate #racism

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“White Saviour Industrial Complex is not about justice, it’s about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege… There is much more to doing good work than ‘making a difference’. There is the principle of first do no harm. There is the idea that those who are being helped ought to be consulted over the matters that concern them,” explains Cole.

#race #racism #stop asian hate #stop aaip hate #black lives matter #it's not my job to be composed and graceful in the face of racist dipshits #it's your job not be a fucking racist dipshit

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In 2020, amid a year of violence and fear, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders were hypervisible — and that changed the way they look at themselves and politics, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.

As the global pandemic took hold, former President Donald Trump started using xenophobic terms to blame Chinese people for spreading Covid-19. Anti-Asian hate crimes spiked, with people self-reporting more than 9,000 incidents to the advocacy organization Stop AAPI Hate. A shooter in Atlanta killed eight people, six of them East Asian women, and sparked national outrage. Then came a shooting in Indianapolis that had Sikhs mourning.

All of these events created a political solidarity unlike anything the community has seen before. The POLITICO/Morning Consult poll — one of the most extensive surveys across nearly 50 ethnic groups that make up the diaspora — shows that two in 10 adults are now more likely to identify with the broader “AAPI” label than they were pre-pandemic, a notable shift for a racial group that tends to be “nationality-first.” This movement in identity, on the heels of a massive voter turnout jump from 2016 to 2020, is key to building electoral clout, experts say.

#stop asian hate #stop aaip hate

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In 1970, Asian Americans were the least unequal of any ethnic group. By 2016 they were the most. While the income of the bottom 10% of black people has increased by two-thirds over the past 50 years, that of the bottom decile of Asians has improved by just 11%. The income of the top 10% of Asian Americans has, however, rocketed.

Indians are the most successful of Asian groups: 40% of over 25s possess a postgraduate degree; just 7.5% live in poverty. That contrasts with the 28% of Hmong, a people of Chinese ancestry, who live below the poverty line. Almost half of Vietnamese have no education beyond high school. The median income of Laotians is barely half that of Indians. There is, in other words, no such thing as an “Asian community”, still less one that is uniformly affluent or highly educated.

Nevertheless, the myth has persisted, particularly on the left. Many of those now denouncing attacks on Asians as products of “white supremacy” were just a few months ago insisting that they were “privileged”, even “embracing whiteness”. As with Jews, the myth of privilege has allowed many to ignore the racism that Asians face.

#stopasianhate #stopaaiphate #stop asian hate #stop aaip hate

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It makes me question whether I really had a “temper” as a child, as I was told, or whether I was merely isolated by racism among racists, afraid and angry?

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There’s a difference between fighting racists and fighting racism. Where my father stayed silent, I have learned I have to speak out, which has felt, even while writing this, a little like betraying him. And as a biracial gay Korean American man, I don’t experience the same identifications or misidentifications he did. I am mistaken for white, or at least “not Asian,” as often as I’m mistaken for Chinese, and have felt like a secret agent as people speak in front of me about Asians in ways they would not otherwise. I learned most of my adult coping strategies for street violence from queer activist organizations after college.

#stop asian hate #stop aaip hate #stopasianhate #stopaaiphate #biracial #multiracial #mixed-race #really great article

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^^^^^ THIS !!!

thank you @postpunkindustrial

#noise #harsh noise #japanese noise #stop asian hate #stop aaip hate #there's an even worse term i've seen used which i won't repeat