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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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Joined August 2009

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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

      I mean this was just a Twitter thread, that he tried to drop on the Internet as a cute funny innocent story Chua wrote a whole-ass book about this shit as this defiant self-righteous manifesto And she invested it with all this model minority Sturm und Drang

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

      "This is how I HAD to raise my kids! I can't AFFORD to coddle them like those smug lazy white parents can! This is the only way I could give them the TOOLS to survive! This is the SECRET OF IMMIGRANTS' SUCCESS and what makes us BETTER PEOPLE" (her later book The Triple Package)

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

      That's like my whole fucking childhood in manifesto form God I was so mad She was, literally, the author of all my misery

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

      And the same litany of excuses for her (terrible, horrible, no-good very-bad) book too "Look, I was using humorous exaggeration to make my point Obviously I didn't stand next to my daughter during her piano lessons with strap in hand threatening to beat her"

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

      "Obviously I didn't actually seriously literally go into my daughter's room and take all her frivolous purchases and smash them to bits in a fit of anger" Yeah okay well I would *almost* say that the attitude behind the acts is more important than the actual acts themselves

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

      Moreover, it's not that obvious See the thing is, and this is the important thing, that shit REALLY DID happen to me I WAS beaten, I DID have my stuff taken and smashed to pieces in front of me, I LITERALLY WAS shoved out the door of the house and told not to come back

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

      That's what people mean when you say you can't joke about this shit I don't know that it's a hard and fast rule that you can NEVER joke about it, but people who do joke about it seem to think they're joking about wacky shit that only happens in cartoons

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

      This is why people got so fucking pissed when we hit Peak Rape Joke in the 2000s, when the word "rape" was just used as an intensifier that was funnier than "kill" "I got totally gang-raped in PvP last night" Like it's just a colorful word like "eviscerated"

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

      I dunno It's not fucking funny to me, because it happened to me, and not only did it happen to me but -- unlike what I think would've happened if I were killed or eviscerated or a piano fell on my head or whatever -- *people acted like it was normal and okay when it did*

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

      *I* acted like it was normal and okay when it happened Not consistently or very well, but I pretended the way everyone else does I never actually openly told anyone about my dad breaking my arm until I was in my 20s My own sister found out it happened via the Internet

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

      That's why it's so meaningless to me that Amy Chua went through this same litany of defenses Her own children trotting out "Look Mom is just talking about her stormy emotions she had when I was a bratty teen I love and appreciate her and feel lucky to have parents who care"

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          Yeah okay I don't care, I'm still pissed Best case scenario, you're like an actress who participated in some shitty rape joke on TV and then came out and said "Oh come on guys he didn't actually rape me it was a bit"

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          Maybe they're lying, maybe in ten years they'll turn out to be just as bitter and broken as I am now Or maybe they're lucky, maybe they're like Lori Mattix gushing about getting to fuck David Bowie maybe they *wanted* that house burned down That just makes me madder at them

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        4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          I went to her book signing in 2012 and I wanted to just go up and confront her but I was too chickenshit to actually do it in the end But I heard her giving her defense "Mainstream culture loves to dump on immigrant parents We have a hard job, and people don't give us credit"

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        5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          "Why do people always go looking for abusers to condemn instead of seeing people who are, for the most part, parents who truly love their children and are trying their best and may not always be perfect in expressing it" Lady I know this excuse I used to give this excuse

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        6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          Of course you're trying your best Everyone talks like they're trying their best, everyone thinks they're trying their best A parent has to fall pretty far to just be comfortable admitting "Nah I don't give a shit" Most abuse comes from people "trying their best"

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        7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          What did Jesus say about the plank in your own eye You all work so hard on the specks you see in these little kids' eyes, you're so desperate to save them from growing up to be a loser or a failure You don't spend a second thinking about yourself

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        8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          Arthur Chu Retweeted Naomi Kritzer

          The charitable reading of the Tiger Mom book as a "satire" implies maybe Chua ends the book actually starting to introspect and think "Hey in what ways might my priorities not be entirely rational and not entirely objective" But then she doubled downhttps://twitter.com/NaomiKritzer/status/1345904577640603649?s=20 …

          Arthur Chu added,

          Naomi Kritzer @NaomiKritzer
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          YES, I WAS THINKING ABOUT HER, TOO. Although fwiw when I read her book, it genuinely read to me as a self-deprecating book about how she thought she knew everything and had parenting all figured out but actually she was a monster, not like a manifesto at all.
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        9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          The WSJ article came out and she started fielding all this anger from upset readers like me and she dug in her heels "No, the people mad at me are all racist, they're all sexist, and/or they're all entitled lazy brats who don't understand my culture of success"

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        10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          That's what upsets me most really Jesus' mini-parable about the specks and the plank wasn't just about *hypocrisy*, it was about *distorted perspective* It's why he specifically talked about *eyes* (not "the smudge on your face")

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        11. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          You DON'T EVEN KNOW if the other dude actually has a speck in his eye You can't even actually see his eyes Whatever you think you see is distorted by the great honking pile of baggage filling up your field of view, through which you can only see half-imagined ghosts

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        12. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          EVEN IF you actually think the cleanliness of the other guy's eye matters more -- "Look, I'm the parent here, she's the child, this isn't about me, it's about her emotional and intellectual development" -- YOU CAN'T FIX HER SHIT WITHOUT FIXING YOURS FIRST YOU'LL DO IT WRONG

          1 reply 3 retweets 128 likes
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        13. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          Like, Christ, I'm not a therapist, I'm just a Twitter asshole, but the whole saga of the Six-Hour Can Opening Tutorial does not feel like a healthy normal dude to me It gives off all kinds of red flags

          3 replies 6 retweets 141 likes
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        14. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          *His own* self-diagnosis ("I'm conscious of my own failures with perseverance and I don't want her to repeat my mistakes") is a red flag That doesn't sound to me like genuine thoughtful altruism, it sounds like textbook harmful projection

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        15. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          Maybe my own little attempt at empathetic projection up there was self-indulgent but COME ON, a grown man skipping a meal to spend six hours doing anything is at least a little unhealthy

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        16. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          Spending those six hours on some bullshit you don't need to do for any kind of work or obligation but out of this sense of "honor"? You've got some kind of problem son Dragging a nine-year-old girl into it? You've got a BIG problem my dude

          1 reply 3 retweets 124 likes
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        17. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          The self-defensive argument "Hey I went hungry too, I wasn't putting her through anything I wouldn't go through myself" That's the PROBLEM dude Someone who's willing to put HIMSELF through that is already not okay, and now you're making her not okay in the same way

          1 reply 4 retweets 147 likes
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        18. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          I dunno man Most of the responses were very hostile and angry, a lot of them were performatively snarky, and people had the right to react that way But a lot of them were also actively trying to reach out and be at least a little empathetic and compassionate to the dad

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        19. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          One lady who's a teacher who works in early childhood education did a long thread "This is why adults often misunderstand what children need based on our own baggage, even truly well-meaning adults, this is the way to acknowledge that you've messed up and apologize"

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        20. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          And what really depresses me is how it all just bounced off and got lost in the noise of "people trying to cancel me" It makes me really sad Because 99.9% of the time that's just what happens The hardest damn thing is to admit you have a problem ESPECIALLY for parents

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