Racism is not just hate. It can also be a dismissive attitude toward any opinion you express, or stubbornly held ignorance that does not allow for a respectful relationship. It can be resentment that you are here, or a belief that you are the “other”and will never be “us.”
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MUCH love to you! The arc of my experience as an Asian-North American in 26 pts, referencing Joy Luck Club, Calgon, Memoirs of a Geisha and 's career...
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Once told by a team mem. who was a former admin. that I wasn’t being a T player/my decision to go against sharing sensitive testing info. in a CLT reminded her of “the Chinese in Taiwan who refused to shift b/c things had been done for 1,000 yrs.” 😬🤦🏻♀️ I still refused. TY
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Those of us who have endured these layers of racism are forever changed. And it starts at such a young age that for the rest of our lives, walking into a room is not just an entrance. It’s a fearful moment where we scan for threats, and try to gauge whether we are in a safe zone.
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Racism is Taught. When I was in elementary school, (I might have been 9 or 10) our teacher asked the class “Do you how many different kinds of Jews there are?” Of course we didn’t know the answer to that. He said “there’s Orange Jews, Tomato Jews, Apple Jews”. Can you imagine?
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Or a neo-liberal narrative that says there are makers and takers, with makers being predominantly privaledged white men.
You said Sience Fiction has a lot of Truth in it. And you right. Im writing 10 years now about a Computer SienceFiction Game Im currently playing. When its finished it will be a Trilogy of my personal Stories and Experiences in that game. Eve Online!
thank you for creating your new show called Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat, Amy Tan.
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Last year at a shelter I experienced for the 1st time this thing called micro aggression. The entire staff was different race. It was like they had meetings about whose turn it was each day. I never did anything to cause it. But I would’ve been racist to say what they did to me.