SHE HIT EACH AND EVERY POINT
[TikTok by @haileyych, split between two people]
Person 1, in a Kagome from Inuyasha cosplay: [text on screen says "So ive been noticing 'stop asian hate' has been trending"] I've been noticing "stop Asian hate" has been trending...where's the "stop all hate" people?
Person 2: She's bringing up a really good point-why were white people so threatened by Black Lives Matter that they had to create a whole reactionary movement against it...but they're not really making that big of a fuss over "stop Asian hate"?
It's because "stop Asian hate" is empty. It doesn't go after the root cause, which is the state and its institutions.
"Hate" implies interpersonal feelings and individuals, so the message is, "Oh! Just don't be a crazy person and hate crime Asians" and the work is done. When Asian racism isn't just hate, it's a deliberate narrative crafted to justify imperialism and war.
The U.S. killed millions of Asians overseas. The only way you can maintain public support for that is by dehumanizing Asians at home.
But "hate" doesn't address any of those systemic issues because you can just reduce it to "a bad apple". And so the white corporate media can weaponize this to their advantage by saying, "Oh it's just a black vs. Asian issue" all while leaving the larger systems of white supremacist violence intact.
