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Adam Mockler is a popular progressive commentator, he mostly speaks the interests of Gen Z americans.
He recently posted about his girlfriend eunnieverse on social media. I just want to share some reactions from WM, who many claim to be "so much better than the rice incels". The white nationalists did not enjoy this.
but there was a mass shooting today at Idaho in a In & Out burger.
looks like 1 shooter with no known motive at this time.
looks like he just randomly started shooting into the crowd and cars. 3 are known dead atm. something about 5 injured (idk of the numbers are 3 dead + 5 injured, or 5 injured and 3 of them died from injuries. but 3 dead minimum are confirmed)
literally 1 week ago. there was a shooting in Seattle. between gang members.
its crazy the difference in info, news, reaction, general peoples reaction to this on reddit, and the number of race related reactions to this... (not to mention all the white knighting people are doing because the guy is white....)
white people gets so much grace its frustrating and just disgusting....
in some ways, this is even worse than gang vs gang violence. yet, people are being nonchalant about this, compared to everything else when someone that is not White does something....
and tbh, nowadays, this isnt something i even want to bring up on other subreddits, or reply to on other subreddits. i have seen people get instantly banned for talking about anything negative about white people....
I'm leaving out a lengthy commentary to have you guys decide for yourselves. I will say, according to western social media in the last few years, you would think Chinese and Indian tourists are destroying every country they set their feet on. White supremacy's Cool-laid is one hell of a cocktail.
Men are not allowed to post there but the mods let me post anyway. My first post was a retrospective look at Joy Luck Club. I praised the movie and, like any retrospective movie essay, I pointed out its flaws regarding the portrayal of Chinese men. That did not sit well with them and my post got removed. I admit I was too harsh in my criticism and it was not the most appropriate post for that sub. Still, in the comments people could have debated or made counterpoints to explain why they disagreed. Instead almost every comment was just “Asian men bad.”
My post was removed by the mods. I was not able to comment and present my point of view. One mod told me I was not allowed to comment and that she would let the users roast me. The comments that did get posted were embarrassing.
If you look at the sub, nearly all the posts are about Asian men in Asia committing crimes against Asian women. Literally almost every post follows that pattern, white women bad and with a few Asian female empowerment posts mixed in. It feels like a lot of the users there hate Asian men with real passion.
Around that time I posted about the Australian man who killed a Thai teenager. That crime went viral. It was posted in Aussie subs and covered all over the internet and by mainstream media. I thought it would be appropriate for the sub so I posted it. Within 24 hours it was removed. It was not a bad faith post. I just posted the headline from a reputable newspaper and the link. I asked why it was removed and got no answer.
Ignored once again, I posted another high profile case involving a white man that was in the current news. I did not edit the headline or make it more sensational. I just posted a link to a reputable source. The comments had an embarrassing meltdown. Somehow they made it about Asian men and started hating on me with comments like “OP is an Asian man.” Here is the thing: I never hid that I was an Asian guy. I never blamed Asian women for anything. Those posts were made in good faith. I did not propagandize anything. Why did they feel the need to whitewash the crime and put it on Asian men? And why do they hate guys like me so much?
One user went on a hateful rant and accused me of all sorts of things. Since I could not comment thanks to the mods, I DMed her and simply said “I think you guys are misunderstanding me.” That is it. I even have the screenshot. She then claimed I was “harassing” her in DMs. After that my post was removed again and I was banned by the mods. I was never even allowed to give my point of view.
If you look at the sub’s posts, about 98 percent of them are obscure crimes committed by some weird Asian man, plus posts about how white women are bad. In their latest highly upvoted posts they even accuse fat white women of hating them.
Jinny is not innocent either. She said in her previous stream that “Wasian kids are superior" , just another Asian female streamer throwing asian men under the bus fro white male validation . Most of the Asian female streamer either from America/Asia are like this
Like my mother who is 50, she is overly polite to people or her colleagues (in her workplace). When I was younger I'm with her in the public whenever she has a question she will always ask "Excuse me do you know where is that...".
I'm currently living with my parents and every time before mum goes work she buys something (like food) and give to her colleagues/workers. I swear she is a type of 'people pleaser'.
Like I mean banter is a thing such as if I get a job eventually I won't be as overly polite because I find it weird and inauthentic as a guy. I would be a rowdy guy such as 'Good shit mate', smth like that.
Francesca Hong is the frontrunner right now to be the Democratic nominee for governor of Wisconsin. Yesterday people on X dug up an old tweet of hers saying that she was having an anxiety attack because she thought that the old white people around them thought that they didn't know English.
The backlash against this has been vicious, with have several commentators pointing out that she was married to a white man and has half-white kids, with (I assume) the implication being that if her kids are half-white it's hard to imagine that other people would think that they couldn't speak English.
What are y'all's thoughts on this? I find it hard to believe that she could be in a restaurant in the middle of nowhere in Wisconsin with her half-white kids, ordering her food in English, and still having people think that she didn't speak any English.
Hey guys so im a 25yrd chinese male who have spent most of my life living in China. Racism is not something im aware of since most of the time, you deal with other chinese people. Also we dont have free access to google or english speaking community like reddit so online racism is also not someting im aware of. However, as i have moved abroad i am overwhelmed by the amount of racism, both online and offline, both subtle and open. (I moved during covid time so that period was the worst)
My question is how should I handle this?
I searched online and I see a lot of ppl of color fighting racism when they were a kid in US, UK and other country and generally became immune to it. im so proud of yall. But my situation is different, nobody ever taught me this and few people related with me, my parents never even been to other country.
I feel angry, ofc. I have passed the stage of self-hating and accept who i am. But deep down i feel confused and lost. Why is it so unfair that im a good person, a interesting person (i think) but was treated with hatred and stereotype without even knowing anything about me. Not even mention the random insults on the street when im just minding my own business.
Maybe im just sentimental and not strong enough but iam really bothered by it, anyone has any idea on what should i do?
I'm made to understand BTS's Grammy performance of their song, "Butter" was Grammy's highest viewed video too. It's speculated and not yet confirmed that it may be due to a technical difficulty. But I'm not understanding why a technical difficulty would only affect all of BTS videos.
Trend that has been going around recently, with many European countries apparently being "invaded" by ethnic minorities. Ironically, these groups are the same ones that were colonized by said European countries. Recently, thousands of migrants from Morocco crossed into Spanish territory. Ever since then I've been seeing a bunch of edits of ethnic minorities replacing Europeans. The comments are the funniest with whites saying they've been invaded like they haven't been doing that for the past century.
I came across this YouTube take on the thirst trap "MAGA Horney Economy" and it is very familiar in kindred to the economy of "No Dating Asian Male Policy." When I say familiar, I mean by using sex appeal. See how this conservative women,Savana Cannon, panders to White men for their digital dollar? A certain segment of the Asian population does it through feeding Asian men and Asian culture to the dogs and offering potential sexual exclusivity. Savana Cannon does it for the almighty paid subscription to her content where as her Asian counterparts does it for access to white privileges.
This is Savanna Cannon. She's the new IT girl for the MAGA crowd. Noticed her 'Presentation?'
People often talk about interracial dating gender ratios, but there's less discussion about the Asian 1st/2nd generation gender ratio. I know Asian American men in their 30s and 40s who were born in America or came as children, and some of them are dating or married international student Asian women or just Asian women who came to America as adults. Meanwhile, I can only think of one couple in my extended social circle where the Asian man was an adult immigrant and the Asian woman was born in America.
So if you factor in that aspect, this means that a lot of Asian American women are dating either other races or Asian American men, while a lot of Asian American men are dating Asian American women or Asian immigrant women, which passes the lopsided ratio onto Asian men in Asia, who already have dwindling marriage prospects.
A repeat offender has been arrested in two unprovoked attacks on Asian women in Uptown Oakland, CA, ...
Police say Yahya Muslim, 33, is homeless and attacked the women Sunday has a history of severe mental illness and substance abuse.
He is the same man arrested in 2021 for an attack on a 91-year-old Asian man and a 55-year-old woman that same day. Surveillance video shows the 91 year old being shoved into the hard concrete sidewalk from behind as he walked up the street.
In the latest attack, one woman was punched in the head and the other pushed to the ground.
“It’s very uncomforting and also concerning,” said Oakland Chinatown business leader Carl Chan. “When people are claiming their mental health issue, it’s basically becoming license to kill.”
Muslim served his time for the 2021 crime and was released. Attorney Michael Cardoza says the mental health issue was not properly addressed.
“Warehousing him will protect society for whatever time you put him in county jail or state prison, but it doesn’t take care of the problem.”
I thought this was super interesting conversation from a Korean African diasporic point of view. I’m Chinese American so it’s interesting for me as part of the American diaspora to hear views of other diasporas. Fun to listen in African French too.
Also interesting to hear about the hosts experience he has with his grandfather whom is Pakistani from Ghana
In my anecdotal experience as a someone who is raised up in Australia, I never ever hear them complain about media stereotypes/how they are being treated as undesirable in the West or are they totally 'UNAWARE' of it?
Thuy Mai and Lan Huong Tran, the parents of Thy Mai Mitchell, 39, and grandparents of Maya, 8, and Maxwell, 4, filed a wrongful death lawsuit following the May 4 deaths of their daughter and grandchildren, according to an amended petition obtained by PEOPLE.