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So...y’all know this is fake, right? If you literally look at the picture, it’s Photoshopped. Also, you guys really trust your news when it comes from Instagram??? This whole situation has me riled up. I’m going to go off for a second. https://twitter.com/amarinykae/status/1249383484004728832">https://twitter.com/amarinyka...
So first of all, I won’t deny that there is anti-blackness in the Asian community. I won’t deny that the Chinese communist government has done some pretty messed up things. But what I WILL deny is using literal fake news to say that Asians don’t deserve to be called “POC”.
Our struggle is not any less real than other minority groups. It’s not a competition. Blacks are struggling in America, we get it. We do. We see it. But so are Hispanics. So are Latinx. So are East Asians and Southeast Asians. So are people of the Islamic faith.
And I get it. I’m not trying to compare my struggle with hundreds of years of enslavement or other discrimination. But I am going to point out the Chinese Exclusion act of 1882. I am going to point out Japanese internment camps.
I am going to point out the Page Law of 1875 that banned “Oriental” women from coming to the U.S because the government didn’t want to give Chinese men the chance to settle and have families in the U.S.
I am going to point out the model minority myth, that Asians seem to have everything because we work hard and are “submissive” and prove that racism doesn’t exist because there are only positive stereotypes. Stop. There’s no such thing as a positive stereotype.
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There have traditionally been waves of “yellow fever” throughout history and while it might never be as visible as black enslavement and discrimination, I want to point out that it is there. It ebbs and flows, and right now, we are at a peak.
So instead of turning against each other and trying to our-compete each other over something as relative and negative as suffering and pain and how much we were discriminated against in history...maybe we should try to work together? Just a thought.
