okay so obviously the whole situation around taiwan and the who is a whole mess and complex and i truly don't have the emotional capacity to elaborate/fully engage but joanne ou's statement that racism isn't a problem in taiwan.....ma'am........yes it is lmao it very much is. (1)

black and indigenous folks are treated noticeably worse than han and white folks, and even though there are v v few black folks in taiwan, anti-blackness is very much embedded in society. people casually spout stereotypes against indigenous communities all the time (2)

i distinctly remember hearing that shit from teachers and on the national evening news. and don't even get me started with prejudice against SE asians who are consistently at a disadvantage when they migrate to taiwan. so ma'am what the ever-loving fuck are you talking about (3)

yes, things are rough, it's hard to be taiwanese. but han taiwanese especially need to stop acting like we're victims of everything and pretend we never did anything fucked up. indigenous taiwanese are less than 3% of our population. how the fuck did you think that happened. (4)

this country was built on colonisation and racism. han taiwanese are both coloniser and colonised. i literally learned this from middle school taiwanese history, so y'all have no excuse. 漢人的確是會被別人種族歧視, 但別忘了我們在台灣所擁有的社會特權以及其起源.

and before anyone tries to GOTCHA me: I grew up mostly in Taiwan and moved around a lot internationally so yes I know that concepts of race/ethnicity are different everywhere etc. Still doesn’t change the fact that we really fuck over Black + indigenous folks