Re:Religious fervour is migrating into politics
by pessimizer on Sunday March 28, 2021 @12:28PM
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Those aren't vaguely bad as compared to the shit that has been yelled at me out of car windows by people who will never have to answer for it.
The first one is just the "model minority" trope, the second one is a reference to the actual physical characteristic that Americans use to define "Asian" (since we tend to leave South Asians out, and everybody in the West tends to leave Central Asians out), and the third is a case of over-specification that maybe indicates hidden racist attitudes, but could also be a way to distinguish between a number of TAs whose names you don't know.
I don't care about Teen Vogue, and I don't care which elites get jobs in the culture industry dictating the range of acceptable opinion, but tweets like these are minor racial crimes as compared to the systemic actions of people who would never talk like this.
The first one is just the "model minority" trope, the second one is a reference to the actual physical characteristic that Americans use to define "Asian" (since we tend to leave South Asians out, and everybody in the West tends to leave Central Asians out), and the third is a case of over-specification that maybe indicates hidden racist attitudes, but could also be a way to distinguish between a number of TAs whose names you don't know.
I don't care about Teen Vogue, and I don't care which elites get jobs in the culture industry dictating the range of acceptable opinion, but tweets like these are minor racial crimes as compared to the systemic actions of people who would never talk like this.