not to play the fucking race card but this is a great example of what feels 100% fake to me about the recent wave of support for asian-americans. i didn't mention this in the thread but obviously the fact that my parents and i are chinese is a huge part of the picture here
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sometimes your parents lift you completely out of your native culture and society to move to america to chase their dreams of making enough money that you never have to worry about anything ever and uh this is where that ends up and you can try to understand or not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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hm looks like the first tweet was a bad tweet, i did a really bad job of saying what i meant. i mean it's relevant to the story that chinese parents give you money as their way of showing they care and it's relevant that i grew up basically american and didn't absorb that
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what i grew up absorbing was that money was vaguely bad and you shouldn't have too much of it which, y'know, *gestures broadly*
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not entirely sure? Suspect you'd be dragged way harder for the same thread if you were white tbh.
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seriously? i'll defend you on the original point, but this? no. you know full well the reaction would have been the same if not more intense if you were white
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LMAOOO your parents are not the only immigrants who came here for more. Their success has made you so incapable of recognizing your own class privilege, you chalk negative feedback up to your ethnicity. please get a journal and some class consciousness
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Yo, people aren't coming for you because you're Asian. Multiple members of my family have been attacked this year for being Asian—and I'm telling you that your thread struck a socioeconomic nerve, not a racial one.
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are you saying being asian american contributed to the hyperfocus on "physical/material wellbeing" at the expense of mental wellbeing? i can relate a bit to this
but wrt money would surprise me, as all AA immigrants i know (regardless of wealth) were raised as if they were poor
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way I'm parsing this is that while many go on about the material situation of immigrants, when one with material success appears, they lambast him as being privileged
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