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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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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 17

      It's not "related to" antisemitism or "implicit" antisemitism or whatever It just is antisemitism Before we had the *word* antisemitism we had a word for this kind of thing -- "pogrom" It is the fundamental way race-hatred works

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 17

      In ye olden days hating someone of a stigmatized race or culture was THE SAME THING as hating the stigmatized job they stereotypically do That's how jobs worked -- that's why they did those jobs

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 17

      The idea of some kind of egalitarian job market we all mill around in where we randomly end up in professions based on our own skills and desires with no regard to our family background is extremely modern and liberal ("neoliberal") if you like It's a very 20th-century ideal

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 17

      And, like, it's fucking bullshit You and I know it's bullshit, everyone knows it's bullshit in the real world even as some activists actively fight to make it true and most smug suburban liberals casually pretend it's true in speech while knowing it isn't in practice

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 17

      In medieval times there was no such thing as "hating moneylenders as a profession" without hating Jews Any more than in the old South it made sense to say "He oppresses people who are *enslaved* but not because they're Black, just because of their legal status"

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 17

      In modern times we have softened the rules, we have tried to increase social mobility so it's easier to escape the social role your family was born into

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 17

      But it's still complete and total bullshit to pretend that someone "doesn't mean anything racial" when he says he "hates cab drivers" or "looks down on maids" or, in this case, "is disgusted by the temptations of sex workers"

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 17

      This isn't even fucking that stretched an analogy I deliberately picked the less direct analogy -- it's also true that in medieval times Christian moralists *directly used the word "Jewess" as a synonym for "prostitute"* (which is why it's now considered a slur)

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 17

      Sex work has always been a diverse profession that exists in some form wherever sex exists But the stigmatized population of sex workers that the brunt of oppression and violence falls against is always one defined by markers of race, ethnicity and social class

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 17

      I don't know what was going through this specific shooter's head and I don't actually much care (nor do I think he's a reliable witness about his own motivations -- as though any of us is, but especially someone about to go on trial for murder)

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 17

      But I do know that it's absolutely true that while all sex workers are seen as disposable once they fully get hit with the stigma of "sex worker", there's obviously a huge range of how EASILY someone slides in the general public's mind from "human being" to "sex object"

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 17

          And that that dehumanization has to go pretty far for someone to think that ending a human being's life is justifiable as "removing temptation" from his own life -- that shooting a woman dead is the equivalent of putting a porn blocker on his laptop

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 17

          And the process of dehumanization is always -- ALWAYS -- easier if someone is defined as a different race from you That's what race is FOR That's what race IS

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        4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 17

          That's why these fucking "Asian massage parlors" doing sex work under the table EXIST -- that's EXACTLY WHY white men like this feel comfortable patronizing them but would be skeeved out by buying sex from someone "who could be a girl you went to school with"

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        5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 17

          The idea that "Oh, he's a fucked up sex addict, and Asian massage parlors are what was available to him, so it had nothing to do with race" is SO STUPID INCREDIBLY STUPID It's like you all said the words "structural racism" as this magic phrase you never tried to understand

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        6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 17

          If racism only described to your personal disparate interactions between two people with the exact same socioeconomic status and profession then like 90% of racism wouldn't be racism That's the motive behind people who push the line of "I don't see race"

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        7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 17

          "If a PoC came into my office as a fellow lawyer in my field I would treat them the same as all my white colleagues The way I treat people in professions I don't respect who only HAPPEN to be disproportionately PoC has NOTHING TO DO with race"

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        8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Mar 17

          Well, shit, anyone from any time period could fucking say that "It's not my fault all my fellow European aristocrats are also white Christians, I didn't set up that system In some hypothetical situation like Shakespeare's Othello I'd be totally not racist"

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