I agree with @AndrewYang’s take. For most of my life I was an invisible bystander to American issues of racism, poverty, and politics. Tackling these things was not encouraged in my Asian American household. I am finally taking a more active role in being an American, 1/ https://twitter.com/msmelchen/status/1245924473108172802

not because I’m Asian American but because it’s what every American should be doing, regardless of race. And along the way, my participation incidentally breaks AsAm stereotypes. Compassionately breaking stereotypes is a way to mitigate and prevent racism.

As a nurse practitioner I encounter people of all backgrounds. The best way I have dealt with racist/discriminatory behavior from patients is to make efforts to get to know and understand them as much as possible. That humanizes them and in turn humanizes me to them.

If I stormed out on every patient I felt racially insulted by, I wouldn’t be able to treat their conditions and I will have irreparably damaged the therapeutic relationship.

You can’t reform people by rejecting them. The disease called racism doesn’t go away because you denounce it. It will only go away if we examine and treat the root causes that lead to racist behavior.

While I can understand the loud response from prominent AsAms to Yang’s article, I disagree with their narrow, counterproductive interpretation. I’m not seeing many or any alternative solutions being proposed here besides cancellation. Racism can not be canceled into oblivion.

Woke cancel-happy SJWs are part of the problem they claim to hate: racism. Modern day social justice leaves no room for forgiveness, deep thought, and solutions, only bridge-burning rhetoric. This is partly why we have Trump and a bitterly divided government.

The cure for racism must include compassion, understanding, and teamwork. I don’t see SJWs doing much to find a cure for the disease of racism, nor its underlying cause, scarcity.

Racism thrives on scarcity, disunity, ignorance, cancellation, and apathy, by BOTH “racists” and “victims.”

The solution is not to rhetorically “fight” racism but to clinically prevent/treat racism like it’s a disease that can be cured one day.

Guess what? I do in fact work harder to gain the trust and respect of patients that have a discriminatory attitude towards me. That doesn’t make me a suck up, simp, or a model minority. That makes me a humanizer. We need to show our humanity to humanize the “racists.”

And guess what? All of my misunderstood “racist” patients are some of my most loyal, obedient patients and they respect me. It takes patience, love, tonguebiting & understanding but the end result is another human knows an Asian person that they’re not going to racially hate on.