(The image is one shiba, the dog of “doge meme” with a awkwardly photoshopped stick in their paw, hitting another shiba pasted in the corner over the head. The stick has the SFX word “boink” written atop it with no quotemarks. End ID)

I was literally just thinking about this.

Now more people at least fake caring about West Asia and Afghanistan(but not the rest of Central Asia) than the rest of Asia for virtue signalling purposes, but as someone old enough that typical history curriculum ended at WWII and also as someone *from* Asia, and furthermore as someone old enough to have known a fair number of hippies in my life:

—I was shocked a few years ago to learn there actually were people of races considered “ReAl AmErIcAn” who weren’t proud of the atomic bombs in ‘45. I had a history teacher when I first came here literally and explicitly encourage violence on me for Pearl Harbour, a military base, I got in trouble for mentioning internment, which was still denied then. Never mind Pearl Harbour had 90 years of buildup that began with American government colonising Japan to create a new goods market and also colonising other parts of Asia officially along with Britain and France, who were never held responsible for their atrocities in the area. In Vietnam, the drafted boys weren’t at fault and often actively resisted and only honoured by anyone else when they came back in a box, but some alledged “antiwar” people wanted Vietnam atomic bombed to wnd the fighting because that’s how you do nonviolence (it’s really because Asians even today aren’t considered “ReAl PeOpLe” and therefore don’t matter) and the whole thing happened because France had been trying to colonise the area (only thing Japanese Imperial Army got right was getting the French out of Thailand, done at some point before US involvement in WWII) and the Us/Vietnam/France war narrative in English has *always* been spun as “poor America.” I hung on to heavy cartoon watching a couple years after my cartoon nut dad died of F-on-M racially motivated DV, and the only time I ever saw US media literally ever mention Vietnamese suffering in that war was a episode of “Hey, Arnold.” (I don’t know if it was only once or not because I tended to cancel cable because working enough to afford something so frivolous means no time to watch, so it’s pointless) That was the late *1990s.* Over 30 years and heaps of media later. My knowledge of Asia risks being up to 27 years as of 2021 out of date because I left Asia then, there was no real Web yet (it was nascent and only a rich techy or big business HQ thing), and Japanese programming even in CA, like Korean, really only exists for racial subjugation fetish people in places that even have that option, so my knowledge is spotty after ‘94, but children were still being born in the ‘90s with birth defects causing total immobility due to Agent Orange. That their *parents* were exposed to as children. Not a peep ever heard about that here, right?

There was an article the other day that seemed to be seeking *remorse* from people born here that 11 Sep ‘01????

Even the coverage of Afghanistan right now, I see so many shades of Vietnam coverage. And where has coverage of Afghanistan gone all these years considering the US has literally been there the whole time????

Even shelving that Regean and Thatcher funded and armed what became Taliban in the War On Communism (America is so obsessed with exporting war and waging war and I’m sure it’s a case of apple and tree with England. War on Everything everything has to be “WAR!!!” That phrasing doesn’t make sense for ideology or drugs or whatever)

Not sorry, this is just some kind of fetishising American victimhood. ZERO mention in any of this stuff about the actual people of Central Asia. The first first responder to die was a Central/West Asian New Yorker, zero mention of all the hate crimes for years in any of this stuff, not *absolutely* no one like Vietnam, but few people seem to care about actual Afghanis in Afghanistan, and I just see so many shades of 1973 all over again. Straight up, no one cares about Asians or Asian Americans. Any of us. It never changed.

rare 9/11 serious post on death2america.tumblr.com

honestly losing my mind over that person who came on my 9/11 conspiracy joke post saying "um people died in 9/11 only 19 years ago!" as if 1. that argument will make a blog with the url 'death2america' feel bad and 2. the most important casualties in 9/11 are the ~3,000 people who died in the towers when what happened AFTER 9/11 is significantly worse as far as loss of life goes. the start of the "war on terror" should be what people first focus on here as well as the fact that the US literally funded terrorists orchestrating terrorist attacks like this to combat communism. MILLIONS of innocent people are dead because of the war on terror but bringing that up is seen as inconsiderate by many people in the US because the US is the world's bastion of Freedom and Democracy™️ and attacks on it are endangering the world or something (lmao).

anyway 9/11 is used as a propaganda tool by the US government to justify US imperialism and instill a nationalistic self-centered sense of pride in its citizens. teachers have kids listen to 9/11 last call tapes in school still. I remember some cried and had to leave class because of it. does everyone not see how fucked up the obsession with 9/11 in the US is? it's become so normalized it's just expected.

soooo yeah that's my honest take on 9/11 for everyone, if you find it offensive just unfollow instead of calling me evil in my askbox.

You cannot support healthy masculinity, intersex people, and AFAB trans people if you ever use “big/small d— energy” meme or otherwise use genital size as any kind of insult.

Same way you can’t claim to be non- or anti-racist if you refuse to treat ALPOC with as much respect as your preferred race, acknowledge us, pay attention to us being raped and murdered for our race and fight it, cosplay us while doing violence to us for being us and then go Karen on us when you’re called out, support our erasure, or make paternalistic laws in the name of and without POC in general.

You claim to want to dismantle toxic masculinity and then clearly tell us you’re not safe to be anything but hypermacho around.

You claim to be anti-racist, but you clearly endorse racism with your whole being and even justify it by saying we aren’t ReAl PeOpLe.

Silence is still violence because we’re still people.

All of you are complicit.

I am way too old to be up on the latest whatever, but I ABSOLUTELY ASSURE YOU THAT THE REASON NO ONE WOULD CARE ABOUT SOMETHING LIKE THAT IS BECAUSE THERE IS NO TRUE ANTI-RACISM AND ASIANS ARE STILL 100% ACCEPTABLE TARGETS LOOK AROUND YOU I HAVE LITERALLY BEEN TOLD WE AREN’T REAL PEOPLE. TUMBLER AND EVERYONE ELSE SAYS « SILENCE IS COMPLICITY » AND THEN IS AT BEST COMPLETELY SILENT ON US 100% OF THE ANGLOPHONE WORLD IS COMPLICIT IN THE FACT WE DON’T EVEN KNOW THE NAMES OF ALMOST ANY OF OUR DEAD OF COURSE THIS IS A JOKE TO EVERYONE BECAUSE EVERYONE IS RACIST YOU ARE ALL RACIST

tik tok is having a bone stealing witch scandal. i repeat. tik tok is having a bone stealing witch scandal. but this time a man is collecting human spines

If money’s gonna be exchanged on Tumbler now, Asians should get to bill all the racists who rip us apart to play dress up as us.

This goes for both Asians and queer men being kept out of representing ourselves because “racism and queerphobia is female empowerment uwu” Every Asian should get big payouts every time someone makes a post about how they want to own, keep captive, and rape a K-pop star or whatever. Every time no one cares that our fundraisers to not die max out at forty dollars while the Right Kinds (tm, toooooooootally progressive uwu) of races/orientations/identities can have campaigns or even incoherent posts go completely viral any old whenever while we get gaslit that “racism against you is anti-racist because you’re not real people and that’s totally not exactly like the right wing because oh, look, It’s Robert Redford bye!”

could you maybe share some of your own experiences being asian american? experiences with racism, identity crisis, lack of seasian rep, etc?

What is this, an interview? Lol I’m kidding. But sure, I’ll share a little.

Grew up in California inside a predominately Southeast Asian/Chinese community. So the Chinese community was surrounded by us Mien, Hmong, Vietnamese, Lao, and Cambodian folks. Therefore, I never saw Chinese folks as being different from us (not that all Southeast Asian folks are the same) but rather, I saw all of us as just Asian people with different cultures.

Also, our neighborhoods and communities were mixed in and right next to Black and Latine communities too so it was very diverse. Of course, there was some white people around too but most white people you’d see were either the trashy or hood white. Suburban white would just pass by and you’d never see them at night. Think of urban, tighter-packed neighborhoods and apartment complexes with lots of Asian businesses, gas stations, and liquor/thrift stores with dark roads, dim lights, and the streets being full of homeless people, drug dealers, and sex workers at night. Sounds like a movie but it’s real for a lot of us. Interestingly enough, I’ve never seen a movie that felt really close to my experiences though.

Growing up, you either grew up into a gang, around gangs, or affiliated in some way. A lot of my folks were gang members but I never banged a set. I hung out with everybody, even with gangs that hated each other. So as you can see, that was my Southeast Asian rep. It didn’t matter what I saw on TV because real-life was different. But one person that kept me out of trouble was my uncle. He was a goth kid that loved anime and video games. Still does. It’s like during the day, I played video games and Yugioh with him then at night, hung out with the gangs. My youth counselor at the time told me I was like Peter Parker and Spider-Man when I told him all that.

Middle school, got into fights all the time. Got my first arrest. High school, calmed down. Got arrested again though. Got expelled too. College was cool because eventually I came across sociology and it made me realize that our lives ain’t just a product of where we happened to grow up but also a product of so many other factors that put us there. My fellow soc majors read the books but I lived them and that’s what made it so personal to me.

As for racism, man I got some from everybody. White, Black, Latine, even from other Asian folks. But I ain’t one to play the victim, I equally did and said racist things to others too. It is what it is, you know. You either admit your shit and grow from it or continue to deny and perpetrate it.

But regardless, I’ve lived a very fortunate and blessed life. Everything was a lesson that brought me to this point in my life where I have almost everything I could ever want. Not everyone can say this. And if you can’t say this yet, don’t worry. You will someday when a stranger asks you these same questions. Believe and manifest it.

Angry Asian Guy

Also, «Asians don’t face racism because some came here wealthy because you can’t swim across the Pacific so that trip is expensive and they were able to pass wealth onto their children that they had from wherever they came from, therefore violence against Asians doesn’t exist and if it did, you do it to yourselves uwu» is the same as invalidating Black people because Shaquille O’Neal or rich rappers exist. Or even worse, because at least those guys *did* build their own wealth *here* without needing the aid of being in a place where their kind doesn’t face racism.

No, this is great! And I know certain groups are afraid to speak out on the English internet. As an Asian, people still make me try to be afraid to speak out against racism, for example, but this is excellent, @its-wingedbouquet-fan and I’m reblogging this!

By the way, I forgot last time— check out the precolonial Philippine character set. It’s apparently seeing a revival!

hey can i ask if u can ask ur followers if any of them know of any legit resources for SEA pre-colonial history books? stuff on culture, beliefs and which country/ethnic group? I got interested in seeing what the differences and similarities are in our countries before colonial powers messed with us but i cant go to the library right now and was having trouble narrowing down which sources to consider on the net. i never really got into history before.

That’s a great topic to explore. Like let’s just be honest, most people don’t know much at all about Southeast Asia and for those that do know a little something, it’s usually some negative stereotype that comes from a European/western perspective because as colonizers, they got to define the narrative.

The shit that’s going down in Myanmar right now is a legacy of colonialism; the many complex identities of Filipino folks are from colonialism; Indonesians were literally enslaved by Dutch colonizers; and even Thailand (which was never colonized) gets jabbed at with homophobic, transphobic, and anti-sex work rhetoric all the time. Thailand is actually very interesting because it was never colonized yet western perspectives plague it’s image as if it were. And obviously one of worst cases was the US militarization of Vietnam and the broader Southeast/East Asia that pushed the misogynistic image of Southeast/East Asian women in general.

I’m not a Southeast Asian historian but just some things to think about to push you into that direction. But if anyone wants to share resources and books for anon, definitely feel free to leave a reply!

Angry Asian Guy

I am actually gonna add something here. Obviously, the Japanese imperial military was just like the Western ones, great example, being part, along with Britain and France, of carving up China for themselves. This was part of the leadup to Pearl Harbour that happened with plenty of warning that actually started with American imperialism in Japan with Admiral Perry/President Filmore that ended the lovked country period that was a response to Dutch and Portugese attempts at colonialism.

Now that that’s out of the way, Thailand wasn’t free of colonialism. The *one* thing Japanese Imperial Army got right was heeding the King of Thailand’s call for help and getting the French out of there. The same French that were also pulling that stuff in the Vietnam War, and a couple decades later, America sent all the young men over *to help out colonist buddy France.* Not to save the Vietnamese. In fact, though I wasn’t alive in the sixties, let alone fluent in English, I’ve seen old reels from the first PBS station where so-called anti-war activists in the US were advocating for nuclear annihilation of Vietnam because that’s totally pacifist and loving and not at all-racist.

The Philippines had, just, everyone took them over, including my old country. Spain, then America, then Japan, then America again, and I honestly don’t doubt that they’re not still as under American thumb as Japan right now because though Clark and the other base (that I think was originally built by Spain) closed at some point (after I came to the US; we all know Asia is silenced unless they can pull a “Yellow Peril”) there is still a US military presence. Knowing these are basically rape case factories in East Asia, I have litte doubt anything is different in SE.

Right now, by the way, literal trump worshipper Duterte, who is so bad that there are people who want Maoism who got to see what that was up close, and still feel like it’s a better deal, and his election has something to do with Facebook disinformation and may be able to rig his daughter in on the next election, is trying to claim some part of the South China Sea because something about “oil,” unless that’s a false cognate between Tagalog and English. Which, again, not too different from his admired American “war on China” and my source is I leave the formerly pan-Asian channel on because habit because they used to have JP programming before the hot fetish trend became Korea and they swapped Japanese programming out for Korean. They have ABS-CBN News and there’s a lot of English and Spanish loanwords due to colonialism, and I speak both of those fluently.

Anyway, so, Thailand, OK, so there’s more queer people in entertainment. Also sex work. I hear those are pretty much a trans person’s best choices and something about anti-queer Buddhism (which I’m Jodo Shinshu, so that was a mondo shock) and a lot of the sex trade is tourists. “One Night in Bangkok” is no more a cute song than it is magically not racist because if it’s from popular media it can’t be racist (yes, this is a common thing people argue when it comes to Asians) there is a lot of foreign exploitation of Thais for sex work, and I’m so positive for actual just rape because who’s capable of treating them like anyone else in the business of services or goods for bodily stuff?? This particularly includes a…my understanding is fuzzy here, but NB transfem gender native to Thailand. Really badly.

Source, talking to people and reading Thai news and stuff in languages I speak. As well as this coming up on a news channel from Japan I was watching on one of those janky apps for watching Japanese broadcasts from America a few years ago. Which probably means eleven years ago or so. No, I don’t remember what channel. Probably Asahi or NHK, though. It kinda seems like Asahi’s thing, and they were my favourite channel for entertainment when I was there growing up, so I’m still fond of them. And they’re also left-leaning, as far as rules and society even allow bias in mainstream reporting there. (Lies happen, but get called out, people get in big trouble, and Fuji couldn’t survive trying to be Faux News. There are *limits* on mainstream news and also pressure of public on companies still has *some* sway, to my understanding, whereas it has had none in US for a while)

Don’t forget, the Vietnam/US/France War wasn’t the only war. So, Cambodia had a leader, Pol Pot. There was also the Khmer Rouge forces. This is where I’m relying on 30+ year old memories almost entirely(I lived with my granparents and all granparents watch NHK, nationwide truism www) The Vietnamese found themselves passing on the “favour” America and France did to them. There was lots of shelling. Even refugee camps at the Cambodia-Thai border were shelled and everyone burned to death. I wanna say around the same time as Tiananmen Massacre and Berlin Wall falling (so, about’89) this started being less of a thing, though there were still people in refugee camps until ‘92 or so? One even had set up its own school for the kids.

Random Vietnamese pop culture fact: There was this singer, Linda Trang Dai. That’s lacking orthography, but I don’t speak any Vietnamese, so no keyboard. Anyway, I think even “Linda” might have been tacked on for this purpose. Anyway, she spent a long time singing in only English in hopes the West would pick her up. Unfortunately, only two Asian acts have been on US radio: that one singer from when my dad was in college whose song about Japanese protest of US imperialism was renamed “Random Japanese Food because all Japanese is gibberish uwu” and Pink Lady, a pretty famous pop group, apparently got a song here (I came over much later) and weren’t fluent in English and the whole thing was a racist clusterbuck shootshow and then the only Asians allowed were Kitarou, who doesn’t sing (and is quiet in the background and you can forget he’s Asian) and actually Asian American from Los Angeles Hiroshima who to this day still get put in the “foreign from Asia” section at stores and they railed against the racism of this in the 80s) So she wasn’t ever gonna get picked up. She was wildly popular in Vietnam, don’t get me wrong, but I always thought that was a bit of a shame.

There is actually a fair Cambodian American population in Long Beach, California. Even despite all those deportations no one cared about. Though illegal to split up ethnic district votes by dividing and assimilating the district into other neighbourhoods, this is exactly what’s done to Cambodia Town, which is also a darn good walk from Downtown—I did it out of curiosity, not in great health then but took over an hour—and yet was smashed to bits in 2020 protests just like Chinatowns in Oakland and SF because “racism is now anti-racism oh no, that’s not exactly like the right wing it’s totally different because oh hey, is that Robert Redford? Bye!”

OK, I used to know someone in Indonesia when I used Deviant Art for Winmod stuff back in the mid-2000s when I finally caved and got my first home computer. My understanding was that in the mid-2000s, a lot of dangerous fighting was going on between Muslim and Buddhist fighters. May be a shocker, but my reaction of “Buddhist warrior!?!?!?!?!?” is how plenty of Muslims feel about the same in the name of Islam. My religion is real, theirs is not evil. Shut up. No argument. I don’t know what happened since because we didn’t chat all that much and that was a while ago.

Those massive waves of Cambodian American deportees. OK, so a lot of people were led to believe permanent resident status was as protective as citizenship. It is not. The deportees are usually people who left Cambodia for good as *babies.* The reason any Asians aren’t poor here is because those ones came over wealthy and that’s intergenrational. The Pacific can’t be sailed across in paddleboat. Refugees had a route to rescue them that either cost less or nothing. I don’t quite know. Anyway, the Cambodian American population came over poor and you’re hard pressed to move up as an Asian. That’s saying it lightly. A lot of these people had minor charges as older teens, like possession of drugs for personal use or something, and this is being used to deport them away from everything and everyone they know to a country some don’t even speak the language of. In Cambodia, there are actual plural communities of this demograph. That’s how many people have been deported to a place they never knew for basically the crime of being the wrong ethnicity. (Come on, the Capitol Rioters aren’t getting deported, but someone who was once a kid with a dime bag is..)They may have church support. Some integrate and just live with it. They have enough to survive, as hard as it is. Some…don’t survive. They had wives and children and lives and whole families they’ll never be with again, and they don’t survive.

Just, the destruction of colonialism creates opportunities for homegrown tyrants, too. Not to mention, many may be backed by the former coloniser. So when you think of a country that’s difficult to live in, look at its history a bit.

By the way, I’ve only ever lived in Japan and US. I am Japanese mixed, I am not SE Asian at all, nor do I speak any SE Asian languages. If I’m wrong and you’re SE Asian and know better, by all means! (If you’re not Asian, be quiet. This is not a place for “America suffered so much from invading Vietnam uwu” or spreading blatant lies or whatever. Go back to P4rler, buzz off. I’m from East Asia, and you lie about me while pretending to know me better than myself because you can say “sushi” and I’m too dumb to know what racism against me is or what the country I grew up in is like, shut up)

OP, especially, correct me if you see anything wrong! But anyone who knows better than me, please! Trying to support and help where I can, but it’s only help if I have my facts straight.

hey can i ask if u can ask ur followers if any of them know of any legit resources for SEA pre-colonial history books? stuff on culture, beliefs and which country/ethnic group? I got interested in seeing what the differences and similarities are in our countries before colonial powers messed with us but i cant go to the library right now and was having trouble narrowing down which sources to consider on the net. i never really got into history before.

That’s a great topic to explore. Like let’s just be honest, most people don’t know much at all about Southeast Asia and for those that do know a little something, it’s usually some negative stereotype that comes from a European/western perspective because as colonizers, they got to define the narrative.

The shit that’s going down in Myanmar right now is a legacy of colonialism; the many complex identities of Filipino folks are from colonialism; Indonesians were literally enslaved by Dutch colonizers; and even Thailand (which was never colonized) gets jabbed at with homophobic, transphobic, and anti-sex work rhetoric all the time. Thailand is actually very interesting because it was never colonized yet western perspectives plague it’s image as if it were. And obviously one of worst cases was the US militarization of Vietnam and the broader Southeast/East Asia that pushed the misogynistic image of Southeast/East Asian women in general.

I’m not a Southeast Asian historian but just some things to think about to push you into that direction. But if anyone wants to share resources and books for anon, definitely feel free to leave a reply!

Angry Asian Guy

I’m Japanese and have been mass gaslighted for saying this for decades. And my fics get three views while sicko fetishists who name their characters “Lifestyle” and “Morning Sickness,” not to mention I’m also a queer man, and these people are not, they all get 7394683920598548834836722737 likes every day, but nothing worse than an Actual Queer Asian man telling m/m stories about Asian characters.

Also not to mention these people do and will rape. Trust me. But then they tell us it’s a priveledge to be raped for our race and it means we’re loved, and also it never happened anyway.

Even Japanese and Korean broadcasts in CA were never about actual Japanese and Korean people. The Japanese broadcasts are all dead, blatantly swapped with Korean, and the next time the fetish gun turns, Korean broadcasts will be replaced with that too.

Pairing: Jungkook x Reader

Rating: 18+

Word Count: 2k

Genre: Smut, Dragon!AU

Summary: Jungkook has a dragon in his pants and he needs your help taming him. Do you risk getting burned, in more ways than one?

A/N: Hey, do people actually read this part of the fic? Or do they just skip right down to the good stuff? Do you feel tricked yet? Great, because now you can buckle yourself in and read about anti-Asian racism and how white privilege manages to prevail in K-Pop fandoms! People abuse the tagging system on Tumblr anyway, so I might as well use that to my advantage since no one cares about the “stop Asian hate” tag anymore.

By the way, if you’re mad, you’re just proving my point that people only care about their oppas, but not about Asians who are being affected by hate crimes in their communities. Let’s get started!

How white privilege still trickles into places like K-Pop fandoms: observations from an AAPI in the BTS ARMY

I’m a second-generation Asian American millennial who grew up without much Asian representation in Western media. Seeing K-Pop’s incredible breakthroughs gives me both delight that Asians are finally being recognized as respectable artists and immense anger that fans seem to adore their oppas in Korea, yet they don’t give a shit about Asian Americans being targeted and killed. I wanted to share my experiences in the BTS fandom as an AAPI and how I’ve witnessed white privilege creeping into K-Pop fandoms, which celebrate people of color.

This lack of compassion is a byproduct of fetishization - taking only the good, surface-level parts of a culture while completely ignoring the bad. People consider themselves an ally simply because they enjoy Korean music or dramas or films. So they think that they don’t have a responsibility to VERY EASILY reblog a post here and there about awareness. That because they find Asian men attractive, they’re suddenly exempt from accidentally perpetuating racism. The bar is on the fucking GROUND and people still manage to dig below the dirt.

Asians have always been portrayed as exotic or foreign in American TV and film, and this view has been completely accepted by our society. In recent years, K-Pop artists have had to field the dumbest interview questions by Western media outlets and no one bats an eyelid. One could argue that oh, the interviewers are just trying to be respectful because they know things are really different in America. I’m sorry, but asking “Have you tried In-n-Out yet?” is not breaking any fucking cultural barriers.

It’s become so normalized to not take AAPI discrimination seriously because “it’s really not that bad” or because “Asians just can’t take a joke” or because “Asians are so privileged, they’re basically white (~newsflash~: we aren’t white).” When people dismiss “smaller” issues with microaggressions and fetishization, they can then turn around and deny race was a factor in bigger problems, such as not labeling a mass shooting or a cold-blooded murder anti-Asian hate crimes.

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I would also like to posit that the reason more Asians could afford houses when that was a thing that was possible here, and can also afford to send their kids to school is because LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN YOU ARE NOT CROSSING THAT IN A DINGHY!!! Poorer Asians in Asia get stuck more often , barring refugees, just like poorer ones that ended up here where everyone tells us it’s a priveledge to be raped for our race get stuck.

Also, to be perfectly honest, you’re only poorer over here because all the housing is fake Airbnb stuff and you can only get certain jobs if your name isn’t a “normal, easy” name like Aeloui SniffleWalk McFuwbfkfk III, Jr. and you’ll be a polyglot college graduate stuck under illiterate bosses who give you 40 minute lectures about having a “troublesome, bad, wrong, difficult, impossible” name like “Li Yu” or “Ikeda Tarou” and get force-renamed without your consent if you actually get the job and don’t just get tossed in the shredder pile (or deleted by the algorithm these days, I suppose) so it’s a trade down from some places unless you come for some US branch high exec job.

Here’s a whole lot about how priveledged we are to be targets/s

The offenders here love to return to the US and pretend to know more about Japan than us filthy Asians and like to tell me that’s why they should be my friend

I want you to also mind here that in 2019, a local Sinophonic (they have a few Chinese languages) news channel in NorCal ran a story on how police refuse to help Asians, which is why I lost my home back in 2014 to racially motivated violent DV and murder attempts and the police just told me it wasn’t important, and I recently watched an Asian worker in the run-down, violence-filled building I live now be gaslit out of reporting a hate crime earlier this year (2021), so of course there’s no data on Asians. Even when the media was suddenly oh-so-shocked that they weren’t ignoring it anymore, the entirety of Western Society is just like English Tumbler, only blogging under SAH to disrupt and destroy our voices so they can continue gaslighting us that we deserve racism because we “never did anything”

While this article feels like it has to genuflect toward the end because we aren’t allowed spaces for ourselves by others, this is another good article, and do keep in mind that the entire modern system of immigration was created to criminalise Asians, who were also being used as a replacement for newly-banned slavery of Black people, all the bans on citizenship if one had Asian blood, and that the entire Anglosphere if not all of EuroAmerica, including English Tumbler, considers it just as much “leftist praxis uwu” as a right wing cause to carry this all out, call it love, and claim it’s totally not racism to deny this isn’t love. And that police won’t help you, and also the whole banning women in immigration from Asia, the West will then turn around and tell you “your backwards people thought women on ships were bad luck, that’s why” WHICH WAS ACTUALLY AN OLD EUROPEAN BELIEF CHINA HAD EARLY MEDICINE EVEN CENTURIES BEFORE EUROPE DEVELOPED LEECH TREATMENT AND HUMOURS (the “black bile” stuff)

Also, I’m Asian and trans male, which is another thing people tell me I’m priveledged to be oppressed for , and since I’ve lost my orientation because people only ever wanted me as a “weak” walking wallet despite me being poor as dirt thanks to AsAm “sticky floor” from the Wikipedia article, four languages and a college degree and I’m priveledged to be bottom rung under bosses who can’t spell “towel” in their only language of English and then tell me I’m stupid because my English isn’t native but it’s a priveledge to be treated this way because I’m Asian, so I don’t even have money, but I literally became aromantic due to trauma (Caedromantic) because partnerships have only ever been about racialised violence and using me for the money I don’t have, so I thought I’d add this. All the violence against me was because I’m Asian enough to capture and beat, so Asian trans man, forget about it.

I will tell you multiple likely reasons Asian men report violence less than Asian women cis or trans or any orientation:

1. Bog standard male DV survivors are hardly believed and usually have nowhere to turn for help, and widespread mockery and invalidation as well as being continued to be stuck with abuser and have to escape with no support whatsoever, save maybe a willing friend for the lucky.

2. Again, police do not serve Asians, or at least didn’t until this year

3. A lot of postwar Japanese immigrants are scared off from passing on language to their kids and families here before were already jailed as babies for being an “evil race.” Which America denied for decades until George Takei made it no longer deniable. So, very recently. America says “Japan is a hive mind of insects but in America, we celebrate difference—racism, sexism, ableism, queerphobia, and all that other stuff we exported are one big party!!!” but you are never more afraid of being the nail that sticks up than if you’re Asian or Latino in America, particularly as an immigrant yourself. I’ve been having deportation nightmares again despite citizenship for 23 years. This goes for everyone and all crime, not just male DV survivors.

4. Just like we’re brainwashed by 99% of non ALPOC that our Asianness and our Americanness can’t both be true, so it is with Asianness and masculinity. Remember what I said above about male DV survivors being ignored or made fun of? Racism posits us all as “effeminate”=“weak”=“undesirable”=“not a real man.” (And yes, of course that’s loaded with 30 other bigotries. You find bigots where you find bigots, surprise of the year/s) So you really think that incentivises reporting by Asian men unless they’re like me and have been done with all this abuse for decades!? Even I lost my wonderful home and never recovered because no one took me with my Asian name, Asian neighbourhood address (yes, a white racist literally stole an Asian’s home in an Asian neighbourhood, this is how our lives are. Online fetishisers of Japanese and Korean media are not our friends. They are closer to the Atlanta shooter or military rapists than they are to good or safe people) seriously. Police refused to help over several calls for several days and told me they had ‘important things to do uwu.’ Mind you this was only because my white, later, violent Nazi-loving, cousin pushed me to cal. No one cares when it’s Asians, that’s why no one reblogged Angelo Quinto’s death around Christmas 2020 same exact way as Floyd except right in front of his pleading mother in her home, and I’ve personally faced violence by Southern cops, but the “Asians can not be men” is also why you get overcompensating macho n-th gen AsAm guys. It’s not a great thing, machoism is always bad, but it is a reaction to racism. Those guys are super not gonna report.

Clearly, we are so priveledged to be gaslit and refused acknowledgement of all our suffering anywhere ever/s

And sorry this is so East Asian centric and not a lot on SE Asians who also face all this as well as all those targeted deportation raids by ICE no one cares about on top of that, sometimes committing suicide in the country they’ve not been since two months old, have no clue on, separated from spouses and children and all their families with no hope of reuniting, and all of us E/SE Asians are otherwise treated the exact same because people refuse to learn we’re not all the exact same single person because racism is inherently dehumanising and 100% OK to do to us in 2021 Anno Domini because we’ve totally progressed../s

Don’t forget SE Asians are more likely to come over as refugees, so same financial instability as me and a lot of Asians around me regardless of where we’re from or our parents were, come over poor, and poverty becomes inter generational. SE Asian Americans, a lot of times they end up nurses or home care aides around here, which hospital and nursing home nurse deaths were significantly Filipina, at least here, because that’s the best they can hope for ever.

I kinda don’t wanna make this addendum because I only get reblogs when it’s not about racism against ALPOC and ignored when it is by 48205727 anime K-pop blogs that only see us as toys or robots to rip the skin off of and wear while beating us, but there’s something very important here.

While yes, this is a « slippery slope, » this is the direction things are legitimately heading. Even when I first had to use work computers in Win98 era, and even when I got my first home computer with top-of-the-line XP, you decided what type of password, if you even had a lovk screen, what programmes you did and didn’t have or kept or removed (well, at work, whoever was the administrator did, but that was someone at your job)

YOU DON’T GET TO DO THAT MUCH ANYMORE.

I still buy and use (secondhand at this point, but I’m way too old to be assumed to be listening to today’s Hit Parade, and I don’t) records, VHS, compact cassette, even 8-track. When I want something unavailable in this country (the US, which all Asians are made to feel we cannot belong to, even those of us whose families have been here since workers from China were replacements for slave labour and the targets of the largest mass-lynching in history, around 1880, give or take) or something that’s been out of print for three decades, I download it some way or another, back it up like the poster above, and run it off onto the applicable kind of tape.

I still use CRT TV (converter box attached also streaming thingy attached, all run through VCR for easy taping) My coffee pot is from the sixties —older than me.

This has all been principally because I’m not interested in fighting with the SmartToaster365(c) or SmartChair2000 to get a piece of toast or not be thrown off because I activated the widgets in the wrong order.

I may have passed « turning into my father » and hit « turning into my granpa » (he was a really great guy, though, so that’s OK?) but the benefit is that barring things like work, I decide when I wake up and my bed doesn’t.

I get the whole Minimum Life thing being about The Lost 20 Years in Japan (negative job rates for around 25 years, 1993-2016) or here, the fact that it costs a mortgage to rent a couch with five other guys because Airbnb and Bungalow basically own everything now and God forbid the US look to Lisbon for examples because helping people thrive and actually learning from others is not ‘Murican, I actually lost my home to a violent able-bodied racially-motivated abussive ex-wife whose debt I still carry, so I live in an apartment where I’m just happy the bathroom is a separate room and that I also have a full bathroom and not a half-bath where the toilet is all but *inside* the shower (I don’t even like them in the same room because it’s counterintuitive, but America) so yes, I get the allure in being able to move house in one suitcase.

But on the other hand, consider that this is also true, and think about forging a Middle Path of sorts (not gonna preach Buddhism, but the phrase is appropriate)

And honestly, all this paying for 985 streaming services and recording only temporarily on TIVO, basically reinventing cable, and reinventing VCRs but making them worse/more temporary. I’ve been saying that for a while.

Also, do seriously consider your parents’ old stuff. The problem these days is parts, and most non-computer repairmen these days are depressed and giving up because buying a whole new SmartSoupBowlY2K is cheaper than cost of single parts alone, not to mention labour added. So their shops just become dumping grounds for people’s broken stuff and they get depressed, which they have reason, and eventually fold, so repairing can be an issue. But if you’re handy with a soldering iron, and can find parts, you can at least teach yourself repairs that don’t involve electrical wiring components or any other great risk to life or limb, and keep around or take your parents’ old things, because those were made to be repaired and can outlast *you.*

Millennials and Gen Z? BUY SHIT! OWN THINGS! DO NOT SUBSCRIBE!

Listen to me.

You do not want this future to happen to you I promise you. Because the minute you enter into a subscription existence you allow for a possibility of losing everything. Why?

Well, because when you stop paying then you stop having.

I buy my cars outright for this reason.

I have not thrown away my DVD collection for this reason.

I still have my old-school ipod for this reason.

I buy songs I really like direct from the artist on top of my subscription for this reason.

I back shit up on to my external hard drives rather than depending on a cloud only for this reason (which reminds me that I need to do taht this weekend).

If someone ELSE is holding the physical source of what you're paying for? YOU DON'T OWN IT. You're just giving someone your energy and time for permission to access it.

You're leasing your existence.

Don't fucking fall for it, do you hear me?

It's bad enough we have to lease our water, our heat, our internet and our entertainment.

Buy what you want outright WHENEVER YOU CAN. Then do anything you can to maintain it in the face of planned obsolescence. I promise you, there will be a moment when you will be glad you did

Because aside from relationships? Things are literally all the system let us keep in this existence so don't lease your fucking possessions if at all avoidable because at this stage in capitalism we're all a few bad days from being unable to pay those leases. And then what? Then you only have what you can keep and those comforts and necessities that will keep you going, I promise you. Don't let there be anything more that can be taken from you than absolutely necessary.

Well, I’ve only been saying this for a couple of *decades,* so I thought I’d share.

dismantling useless discourse

“there is no circumstance in which women oppress men with their womanhood”

fact: all trans people are oppressed by cis people.

fact: trans men are included in the previously aforementioned category of “trans people”

fact: cis women are included in the previously aforementioned category of “cis people”

fact: cis women are cisgender because they were assigned ‘female’ at birth, a term strongly associated with womanhood; therefore, cisgenderism (privileged) is integral to a cis woman’s womanhood (marginalized)

conclusion: cis women, on some level, do oppress trans men by being [cisgender] women

“transmascs don’t experience unique oppression, and therefore have no need of a unique word to describe the oppression they experience”

fact: trans men, trans women, and nonbinary people (regardless of ‘alignment’) differ from each other by virtue of our experiences

fact: the word ‘exorsexism’ was coined to describe the alienation and discrimination unique to the nonbinary experience

fact: the word ‘transmisogyny’ was coined to describe the alienation and discrimination unique to the transfem experience

fact: without a word to describe the unique alienation and discrimination experienced by transmascs, their struggles are often either glossed over or dismissed entirely

fact: discussions of marginalized group A–a group that is oppressed along the same axis of oppression that marginalized group B is also oppressed under–do not detract from discussions of the struggles of marginalized group B, nor vice versa (e.g. islamophobia and antisemitism; antiblack racism and anti-asian racism; biphobia and lesbophobia; etc.)

conclusion: transmasc people having a word to describe their unique struggles would NOT detract from the legitimacy or importance of the usage of the terms ‘exorsexism’ and ‘transmisogyny’

AND did you all ever notice recently that instead of telling women “you know what, your natural state maybe isn’t abhorrent, we’ll stop,” they’ve been making wrinkle creams and diet kits for men, lately?? (For men where I’m from, ageing is a sign of wisdom and means respect, but being Asian itself here means no one respects you even worse than how they tell everyone else “you have to fight to prove to me you deserve respect—I disrespect anyone until they do!” And yes, I do equally respect my female elders; you should unless they’re not respectable as an individual! )

Your body is the physical manifestation of the story of you. I started ageing early because life for Asian immersion and trans men is “it’s a priveledge to be raped for your race and face even higher rates of DV than cis women. We’ve systematically erased every instance of people like you doing anything ever, and will tell you to your face you and your demograph’s suffering never existed, and therefore you now never stood up and you deserve to suffer without support and saying otherwise diminishes the struggle of real people” (not hyperbole at all) but you know, I’m stuck in the ‘80s (my childhood, which was spent safe in Japan, this is why) and I own it. I own the old man title. And women should be allowed to, too! Ageing, cellulite, stretch marks, any of that stuff are just things people have. I’d say like eye colour, but people are made to value blue over brown because of whiteness (not only white people have them—my high school crush, a girl that was so kind to us poor kids and other rejects when she was pretty wealthy for the Latino kid bar—had blue eyes and was totally Latina [Peruvian descent, American born and raised ], but they are associated with whiteness and brown not so much, and that is *why.* Same as American imperialism makes Japanese people in Japan feel «less than » (white) Americans, which is done for the continued exploitation of Asia, it’s about money and power, it all is)

the thing about fat rolls and cellulite and body hair and all of those things we are told our bodies are not supposed to have is that we have been systematically wired to hate ourselves so that some billionaire can continue lining their pockets. being fat was considered attractive until the 1800s when Sylvester Graham started preaching about "indulgent" foods causing a lack of morality and William Banting decided that being fat was equivalent to being disabled. That, plus changes in the way clothing was manufactured, changing diets, and the invention of human scales led us to suddenly thing fat=bad. And who profits from that? The people who came up with the ideas in the first place. Cellulite was introduced to mainstream knowledge in 1968 in a vogue magazine where it endorced using rolling pins and standing correctly to eliminate it, once again lining the pockets of whoever was selling those bullshit unproven "cures." body hair? not a problem until 1915 when Gillette realized they could double their market by telling women their natural hair was disgusting. makeup is the most obvious form of profiting off insecurities. if it was truly a form of artistic expression, "natural" looks would not be nearly as popular as they are and it would not be seen as being necessary to a woman's professionalism. bottom line is that beauty standards ARE capitalism, and by refusing to buy into them (no pun intended) we are engaging in a revolutionary act. i have been told i am wrong far too many times, and I have quite literally paid the price for it. Self love is an act of rebellion. Self love is a necessary revolution.

This is gonna be a long thing (I also have ADHD) trying to explain that nothing good is behind any of this stuff. None of these orgs policing how people identify or any of that have any actual good intent. Often, it’s bad intent whatever-washing itself so people praise them while they punish people as hard as any right-wing org running soup kitchens does. It’s gonna tie a bunch of stuff that goes on together. I’ve been in social work for seventeen years, and am done, and this hypocritical garbage is exactly why.

I’m trying to get into case management at an ALPOC facility, otherwise may leave a 17 year career due to « racism against ALPOC is anti-racist actually because you’re not real people ! You’re unprofessional for not being a Western, English only speaker who can’t spell towel and not thanking us for neglecting and doing violence to ALPOC clients and workers alike because we’re so progressive and love diversity and everyone should worship is because anti-racism is punishing ALPOC for thinking they’re not too dumb to know what racism against them is and it’s a priveledge to be interned and raped for your race uwu!!!!!!! » don’t forget rewarding workers who harass queer clients, trans workers for over a year, and workers who go shopping on the clock for three hours while punishing the person that had to stay an extra half hour to finish work due to being ditched!!!!! I’ve been 51/50d under false pretences for trying to get a workplace to stop throwing Latinos in a back room and forgetting about them and making Asians the house servants of the white and Black residents. All other ALPOC staff had quit, and I was punished to delegitimise my reports, which worked, because the West is made of monsters in friend-shaped skin and hypocrite liars and social work is mostly people who want to abuse, look down on, and control others. THIS is the sort of people policing how everyone calls themselves. This is what you’re dealing with.

When it comes to shelter clients where people of The Right Races (much anti-racist, amirite?) it’ll be all « unhoused gentleman Mr. Bob » and if not? « The Chah-neez/Mexi-cun » the end. You best believe sanism is just as rampant in these places — even where training exists (usually for queer people, who can be cis enough, and the right race to matter, generally speaking. Same for street drug users, which is wording I’m borrowing from a place that’s been for reducing risk of death in use long before the face of heroin use became whiter and more people cared, swapping stigmatising that for stigmatising the now less white and straight cigarette smokers) it goes in one ear and out the other. On all levels. Sometimes you find trainings after a month of digging and doing admin’s job for them as someone stuck on the Asian American « sticky floor » his whole life, only for them to ignore you, do a 180, and punish you for approaching admin in good faith by taking all your hours away but not officially firing you so you can’t sue.

This is the sort of people doing this gatekeeping to what people call themselves. This is what’s going on behind the pearl-clutching denial of right to determine how someone they don’t like identifies.

And yes, just, if it’s not a group you’re in, you may need to spit this stuff out for CDC training tests or whatever, but just follow the lead of what legit people from inside the given community say.

All the rest is the same as pinkwashing, or how most of the Anglophone world, including this site, goes « I’m so anti-racist because I have the acronym BLM in my bio, and can afford grain-fed organic non-GMO water, that’s why I have a fake Japanese username and use Japanese words like Coming of Age in Samoa did Samoan and lecture Japanese people on their native language they get threatened and hit with actual violence for speaking by people claiming to be there to help immigrants and on their culture because I saw Madam Butterfly which is what I also want to live because I’d love to subjugate my very own tiny Asian! This all makes me an expert and qualified to lecture dumb squinty eyed Asian on what their actual culture is and this is anti-racist and any Asian who doesn’t like it deserves to be beaten because I’m such a good person! I also eat hamburger tacos and therefore am an expert on and ally of all the countries I insist are all just Mexico and this isn’t exactly how trump claimed anti-racism at all, as he interned Latino children that I also don’t care about dying in their own waste in cages! Because racism against certain groups is anti-racist! »

That’s what all that is. That’s the same place this gatekeeping someone else’s identity is. It’s all the same rotten place from a rotten, hypocritical, « let everyone else burn, I’ve got mine » culture and a language where one doesn’t determine their own words but others do (Japanese language is self-gendering, not really others-gendering, and lets other countries determine their own name, or in a couple of cases, takes from Sino languages doing that) This isn’t new at all. None of this is. This world just keeps recycling the same old stuff from the 1500s with a new coat of paint and now in skinny jeans.

I’ll have to really think to break this down, but « straight passing » and also « white passing » (I’m mixed race, trans, and formerly bi, now Caedromantic, which means aro due to trauma, and in my case, the trauma was DV by multiple offenders due to me being part Japanese and fetishisation/rape subjugation fantasy) are just policing/gatekeeping identities and the exact same as « AsIaNs ArEn’T rEaL pOc It’S a PrIvElEdGe To Be RaPeD fOr YoUr RaCe aNd RaCiSm AgAiNsT aSiAnS iS aNtI-RaCiSt AcTuAlLy uwu » same cause, same effect. Bigotry, wanting to pretend your bigotry is progressive, trying to gaslight people out of calling out when you treat them like dogs, just like Karen does. It’s also related to « queer is a slur because the only people that deserve to belong are cisgays waaah » (not doing the faux crytype again because that’s hard, but imagine I did)

the concept of "straight passing bisexuals/straight passing privilege" is actually so disgusting and harmful to bisexuals and i wish more people would actually realize that lmao. like as a personal anecdote it actually is rly hurtful when people (both cishets and other lgbts) call me cishet bc they see me with my cis bi boyfriend and just assume im cishet bc i look like a straight cis woman to them. even as a joke that shit is not funny and i wish ppl would stop assuming "man + woman = cishet"

forgot to include; i'm nonbinary but am frequently read as a (cis) woman so it's especially hurtful for people to assume i'm cis/het and then claim i'm privileged because of that. i certainly don't like being read as cis nor do i think it's a privilege lmao)

I rlly don’t think we’ll ever get to the point where ppl stop bc they even use “straight passing” against gay ppl. It’s so obvious that’s it’s just a way to fear monger, freely shit on some1, and push certain groups away from the community bc of their own personal prejudices . All this comes down to is both communities havin an overall lack of respect and/or understanding of our issues & how the “straight passing” myth contributes to our alienation + others as well.

male kpop idols are gnc because [looks at smudged writing on hand] they’re men of color