fyi i am personally very uncomfortable with all the recent focus on asian-american racism or whatever. it smells manufactured somehow? i can't believe i've become this paranoid but i assume it's only happening now because someone in power decided it was in their interest now
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friend brought up this point and i am intrigued by the idea although idk how to tell one way or the other: this may in part be a counter to recent attempts to paint asian as white. as in, if anti-asian racism is real, then asians can't possibly be white
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tbc not denying that asian-americans have real race-related problems but none of the discourse i've seen about those problems from bluechecks or whoever has felt the slightest bit relevant to my actual life
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not sure what you mean by this?
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Yes, but it could be Asians in power trying to push back against their group being "read as white" increasingly often. And there have been a spate of incidents to report on recently.
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It's true that there is a group that's more aligned with fighting racism against asian people and a group that's more aligned with fighting racism against black people and your friends mostly belong to the latter group
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it would in fact be in the interest of people experiencing an increase in hate crimes for the racism to stop
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I hate that I am now suspicious of claims of racism.
Something that is naturally repugnant to us, is now being used as a political and media tool.
It’s wretched, that we have been put in this position where we now automatically doubt these claims.
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From my perspective mostly outside the system it doesn't look manufactured per se, but an emergent property, a set of feedback loops and attractors, accelerating eddies
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