Lemme just put “positive racism” in this light-
Ain’t nobody scramblin’ to talk about how perfect and beautiful black men or black women are.
East Asian folks (primary of Japanese and Korean descent) are put on this pedestal based on stereotypes or generalizations of their physical features and personality traits. They are often sex policing and slut-shaming/virgin diefying (Asian girls are just so pure and perfect and sweet!), colorist and generalized (Almond monolids! Pale skin! Wow!) misogynist (the women are submissive!) demasculinizing (the men are all so pretty and cute and tiny and androgynous* omg), and, bless, leave out most actual Asian peoples. They are considered intelligent, well-tempered, civilized, advanced.
They are put in juxtaposition to black folk, who are seen as animalistic, lowly, jungle, libidinous, criminal, angry, stupid, uncivilized, backwards, brutish, uncouth. African features are seen as lowly, unnattractive, and unintelligent.
In the larger scheme of white supremacy, which is a poisonous ditchomous hierarchy, to fetishize one, you have to put down another.
Ain’t nobody scramblin’ to learn Spanish.
Do you have any idea how many times I’ve heard Americans shoot down the prospect of learning Spanish with disgust, ridicule, and scorn but get googly eyes at the idea of learning Japanese or Korean?
To fetishize one, you have to put down another.
My mom always liked to pitter patter with non-black immigrants of color, specifically Asians, that we were better than African Americans
To fetishize one, you have to put down another.
*not that there is anything wrong with these traits, or that men cannot have them, rather, this generalization plays into the bigoted idea of the submissive, “castrated”, effeminate, Asian male that has a larger role and context as far as racism, tokenism, and orientalism goes.
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