Answers amended from this prior poll based on other mixed people whining about reverse racism and a significant amount of very confused Turkish people 🙏🏽
If you’re mixed choose what feels right to you I’m not here to do phrenology or paper bag test you but don’t make it my problem either.
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was watching idk watch the video by philosynoir about the racialization of pit bulls and saw this discussion happening in the comments
this is such a perfect example of something I am often trying to articulate to people--the more blunt and violent expressions of people's beliefs in eugenics and race science are often revealed in how they discuss domesticated animals.
you will hear people talk about "pure breeding" or about personality being genetic or openly and uncritically advocating for "mercy killing" as the solution to disability, etc.
these beliefs do not stay contained to conversations on other animals. if you believe this is how life works & buy into these forms of bioessentialist genetic valuation, and you understand humans are also living beings, then you will apply these things to humans too.
one cannot believe in eugenics in one area and have it stay there. it always becomes the "common sense" applied to all sorts of areas of life, from the interpersonal to the international.
They say they wish they looked like you (a Chinese immigrant in a white-dominant, english-speaking country) while posting a picture of a Korean person. They say they wish they were Asian when obviously referring to specifically Japanese people. They say I'm only smart and got good grades because I'm Chinese and that's unfair.
They claim to love my culture's food but they hate on "americanized" Chinese food because it's "not authentic" when it's the Chinese diaspora who migrated to the US who developed it in order make a living in a white-dominant world. They view the things made by my people as "cheap" (poorly made with low-quality materials) and deceptive. They even view us — real thinking, feeling people — the same way.
They complain about Chinese immigrants forming their own communities for not learning more English and interacting more with white folks. They never talk about the Chinese diaspora who are assaulted and killed in the white-dominant country they live in, in the very cities they live in. They don't even know about it, or if they do, they will deny that it was motivated by racism at all. They refuse to learn about the history of sinophobia in the country they live in. They may not even know it exists.
They uncritically believe and regurgitate propaganda about my brothers and sisters in Mainland China right in front of me. They insist it's just the government they hate. They join a big Chinese social media platform for the first time when their own could be getting banned, and they admit — only now — do they finally see Chinese people as real humans like them. I'm going to throw up...
The white people in my life have tried to convince me that sinophobia isn't real. And I honestly believed it when I was little, which only served to put me in more danger. Do better.
"Of course, people at the time felt a range of anxieties about abolition. Slave owners worried about their plantations, and the profits that the labor camps wrought. White overseers feared joblessness. Both feared the loss of superiority. Some Black people had reservations about how they'd sustain themselves without the steady, yet violent, income from their owners. Police abolition triggers similar anxieties today: moral, economic, and otherwise. But if abolitionists had waited to convince every single person that freedom was worth the pursuit, Black people might still be on plantations. Slavery's violence and oppression was riskier than Black people's plans, imagination, and will to be free. So they held the uncertainty in their bellies and started planning. Some started running. Rather than waiting for comforting answers to every potential harm ahead of us, let's plan. Run. Dream. Experiment. And continue to organize, imagine, and transform this society toward freedom and justice without police and violence."
