why techno should apologise for his coronavirus joke, from a chinese person
for anyone that doesn’t know what i’m talking about, here’s a video
here’s a transcript of the video
i feel like people are getting super offended over something that doesn’t affect them. this is a case where i’d understand it, but if you’ve never had to worry about a family member or someone close to you experience such atrocities, please stop.
personally, i could fall under that category because i’m fortunate enough to be white passing, by my mum and her family aren’t, and even though i’m white passing, i’m still asian, and seeing shit on the daily irks me every time.
regarding the ā€˜joke’, it’s just not a joke at all. it implies that all asian people, no matter if they went to asia or not, had mysteriously somehow contracted a deadly virus that we don’t have the cure for. it opens the floodgates for more unnecessary racist hate crimes.
i can’t count the amount of times i’ve seen covid related hate crimes. there’s been so many that when i see another one i just think ā€˜here we go again’. it gets talked about, people speak up for a day, and everyone stops caring.
techno implying that asian people ā€˜have power’ is just flat out wrong. there are asian-americans who experience hate crimes despite never leaving the united states. this virus reinforces the stereotype of ā€˜they’ll eat anything that is an animal’ and it fucking sucks.
to be seen as someone who’ll eat a bat or a dog or a cat when i’ve never thought of trying it sucks because it sounds vile but just because i’m chinese people think that’s how i think.
chinese people have always been the butt end of the joke. ā€˜they all eat dog’. ā€˜they all eat cat’. ā€˜they’ll eat anything that is an animal’. never has that been funny nor will it ever be. yet it’s so normalised that i’ve just given up and don’t care anymore.
racism towards asian people has been extremely normalised and the day people realise that it’s not a good thing and that it shouldn’t be normalised is the day my sleep schedule goes back to normal.
techno is someone in a position of power, not just because of his race, but because he has a platform. if he doesn’t address this, then he’ll have a fanbase that supports his racist and xenophobic comments, and i don’t think technotwt wants that
in conclusion, techno’s ā€˜joke’ was distasteful and not funny in the slightest. his statement reinforces racist stereotypes, which should be enough of a reason to apologise.
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