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cosmopolitan-fascist:

bankuei:

cosmopolitan-fascist:

that was the explicit 2nd point bankuei makes and i am not seeing enough people problematize that

now its being reblogged by people like stfuconservatives, who are white, and i really do not appreciate the uncritical way this is playing out. white people like stfu take cues from the poc community, and we should not be sending such a false msg.

signed,

an asian immigrant in deportation proceedings from a country being destroyed by us imperialism (in which americans of color are complicit)

I’m waiting for people to show me at what point I said asians have TOTAL privilege or AREN’T oppressed.  Reading comprehension is useful, try it.

Less doesn’t equal “not at all”.  Just like how Colorism works - some people get oppressed less/more privileges than others.  Doesn’t mean they get full privilege and no oppression, means they sit somewhere else on the hierarchy.

Also consider this: in full solidarity, folks would have hopped the fuck up to say something the moment the Patriot Act went down instead of assuming it was only going to affect “Those other people”.   A LOT of APIA folks and orgs were silent the whole time.  So…

This is how less oppression/some privilege gets folks on the buy in, and eventually it fucks us all.

So do you want to talk about what I said or put words in my mouth?

let me clarify because i dont mean to attack you, i really liked your post and agreed with it. i’m less concerned about what you wrote and more about the ideas it affirms for white and other peripheral anti-racists. 

your 2nd point was that asians experience less oppression- let me clarify that- you are right that thats what you wrote and i didnt say that correctly. i apologize.

i already told you that i do not agree with discussing privilege or oppression in weighted terms so we will have to disagree here. i’d love to talk to you about issues that affect the asian american community but the way you frame the discourse categorically closes off engagement— that is my fundamental problem with that.

one link i’d suggest to the problematic way in which asians are thought of in anti-racism discourse is this post i wrote a while ago. 

keep on fighting the good fight and my apologies for misinterpreting you.

I mean, I’m not shocked that weexist-weresist/of-praxis/cosmopolitan-fascist got the wrong end of the stick. Not shocked about colorblinding doing the same thing. But I am really tired of these displays & the insistence that there aren’t different levels of impact on POC communities from oppression. How do you try to police conversations where you get the facts wrong & insist that they be held in a way that suits you without ever once taking a step back to ask yourself what tactics you’re using & why they aren’t working out? Mostly rhetorical. But I wonder these things nonetheless. 

It’s the unwillingness to accept that Black people matter, is what I take from it.  All oppressions suck, but if you ACTUALLY look at people as equals?  There’s no way I would say my oppression is equal to a Black woman.  There’s sure as hell no way I would be talking about immigration, human trafficking, or labor exploitation without any reference to the fact that it Black folks are also targets of this…

Of course, if you don’t see Black people as mattering, then suddenly these folks are getting angry that they’re being asked to put Black folks’ history, lives, and concern on an equal level to their own (or rather in their head, it’s lowering themselves to Blackness…)

The desperate need to derail any conversation from Black concerns.  The need to demand Black folks put other POC needs above their own.  All of it points to the fact that treating Black people as equal is insulting to them.

And this is a basic litmus test: when people engage in Anti-Blackness, you see what  they’re really after isn’t equality for all - just pushing themselves up to privilege equal to White Men.   

It’s like how people are finally recognizing “Gay” or “Muslim” shouldn’t be an insult, but they still haven’t figured out “Black” shouldn’t be either.

But you know, these people keep sitting down at the table trying to order a dish of Equality but not for everyone and wonder why it ain’t getting served.

Bolding for emphasis and because Bankuei is seriously on a role today.

— biyuti

yes lawd praise jesus bankuei is stylin’ on errybody today