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This is a topic that we discussed in my school. A girl in my class (who was white) asked the question. "Why is it offensive to tell someone 'oh your English is really good'." And at the time I really didn't not know what to say to her. I knew it was offensive. I would get offended by it if somebody said that to me or to my parents. But I couldn't figure out why.

After a lot of thinking over the weekend I finally realized. And this post and article further articulate that.

By telling us "oh your English is very good!" It implies that you did not expect it to be. You expected that we didn't belong here. That you expected us to be an "other"

Maybe you didn't mean it. Maybe you genuinely thought it was a compliment. But that's not the way it is taken.

"Where are you from?" From -----. "No, where are you really from?" or "What are you?".

While it doesn't really hurt me when I'm asked, those words are a constant reminder in the back of my mind that I don't fully belong in the place where I grew up in most of my life. It's microagressions like these that add to the feelings of being seen as "perpetual foreigners". Those are the words that really hit the spot from Eric Nam's Time article. On top of that, the model minority myth on Asians that has been ingrained in our families for generations is a mindset that hurts us more than it uplifts us.

To be seen as foreigners in the same place where they told us to be good examples and to set the standards of success among minority groups is like being invited to the table but being told to stay in our spot and to stay silent.

As the model minority, we were told to get an education, to work hard, and to have successful careers in order to achieve the American Dream. My Filipino mom, aunts, uncles, and cousins became the doctors and nurses you see in the frontlines battling the pandemic. Did you know that 16% of nurses in the U.S. are immigrants and a third of those, the largest group, are Filipinos? There's so many of us as nurses that we've become the backbone of many healthcare facilities around the world. There's the big stereotype for Filipino children to follow their parents'  footsteps of becoming nurses (sorry mom!). Yet, achieving this American Dream is not enough for us to be seen as "true Americans". We are hailed as essential workers, but at the end of the day we are still called "kung-flu" or "Chinese virus".

I've faced racist remarks and microaggressions my whole life to that it's just numbing. Numbing to the point it feels normal and jokes doesn't hurt me when it should. And this certain rhetoric didn't start just now. It's been growing since the start of the pandemic. Being afraid of going to places, I remember expressing to my friends my worries of possibly being targeted during a Europe trip we planned last year (the trip never happened). The Filipina woman attacked in NYC hits close to home, as I think about my own mom who also go on walks to church, and my relatives and friends who live in NYC. This past week my parents went on a mini roadtrip by themselves and I was honestly worried for their safety.

I'm thankful to be around people who condemn these hateful actions and express the same sentiments I do. But there are those not fortunate enough to have that support system. What really helps is to listen, to educate yourself, to donate, and to amplify and advocate. I'm not here to tell you what to do but the progress starts when we all decide to step up.

a friendly reminder that microaggressions against asians can also look like this:

pretending to gag at asian food

pretending to be weirded out by asian customs and cultures

excusing cultural appropriation (often through ignoring the stories of asians who have been mocked for wearing their ethnic dress while praising a white person for doing so)

not trying to learn how to pronounce an asian person's ethnic name correctly, or asking, "can i call you by something else?"

adopting an asian name for the ~aesthetic~

using the words "oriental" and "exotic" to describe asian people, particular asian women

ignoring the experiences and stories of south, southeast, and central asians

making sweeping assumptions about asian countries (including their political, historical and cultural landscape)

treating the entire asian community as a monolith and ignoring the fact that the experiences of asian nationals are remarkably different from the asian diaspora/migrant community

co-opting asian aesthetics into creative media without acknowledging their history

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tw // anti-asian violence

there’s been a fuck ton of aapi hate since the beginning of the pandemic and especially lately, with the georgia shootings today, and even the grammys last sunday

all this said i just wanted to share a few resources (none mine!):

- anti-asian violence resources (this resource is also linked in my pinned, it contains information, petitions, places to donate and a lot more)

- stop asian hate (contains petitions, places to donate, ways to spread the word and more)

- sites to donate to and share (if you have a twitter please consider retweeting)

- a cumulative twitter thread with a little bit of everything and more than i explained

+ stop asian hate gofundme

+ asian american resource center (an atlanta based foundation focused on housing and civil classes)

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if you have any resources you wanna share reply and/or reblog and i’ll add it, and with that please share this with the same tags <3 sending love to my fellow aapi, please stay safe all of you and don’t be fucking racist :]

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I want every Asian person who sees this to know that they are loved, valued and important. You do not deserve the racism you face and I'll knife fight whoever says or does some offensive bullshit

PLEASE DO NOT THINK FOR EVEN A SECOND THAT YOUR VOICE WILL NOT HAVE AN IMPACT THIS IS LITERALLY THE BARE MINIMUM

I'm sorry for putting this in the BLM and stop Asian hate tag but in the last few days posts tagged with "Palestine" have not been showing up.

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tw // anti-asian violence

there’s been a fuck ton of aapi hate since the beginning of the pandemic and especially lately, with the georgia shootings today, and even the grammys last sunday

all this said i just wanted to share a few resources (none mine!):

- anti-asian violence resources (this resource is also linked in my pinned, it contains information, petitions, places to donate and a lot more)

- stop asian hate (contains petitions, places to donate, ways to spread the word and more)

- sites to donate to and share (if you have a twitter please consider retweeting)

- a cumulative twitter thread with a little bit of everything and more than i explained

+ stop asian hate gofundme

+ asian american resource center (an atlanta based foundation focused on housing and civil classes)

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if you have any resources you wanna share reply and/or reblog and i’ll add it, and with that please share this with the same tags <3 sending love to my fellow aapi, please stay safe all of you and don’t be fucking racist :]

Post Credit: Impact on Instagram.

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POC solidarity is epic.

Asians, Africans, Latinos, and Indigenous People all standing up for one another is awesome and we need more of it. Racists will often try to pit us against one another, but we have to recognize the importance of standing together and fighting for equality for all of us.

I'm really fucking angry & have been sitting with this for a few days.

Why is nobody talking about the fact that 215 children's bodies were discovered in Canada, all killed in Kamloops Indian Residential School?

the last Residential School was closed in the fucking 80s, but I've heard fellow native people say it's 1996.

closed in the 1980s-90s.

that wasn't long ago.

I'm crying as I write this and my blood is boiling, nobody is fucking talking about these poor babies who were ripped from their families and MURDERED!!!

nobody outside of Canada fucking talks about this. I'm so sick of it. There's so much violence towards native people, and nobody gives a shit.

They're ripping through our land as I speak, and our Prime Minister is at the center of it!

his statement towards the discovery of these children is to call this a "shameful chapter of our country's history" BUT HEY, JUSTIN??? the chapter ain't fucking done, you sick monster!!

there are 40 year olds who are still alive, who were survivors of the residential schools!!!

I'm so disgusted. I'm so done. I'm so, so disappointed in this awful country.

This is why I absolutely LOVE Tumblr

CONSUMPTION DOES NOT EQUAL SUPPORT.

y’all (white ppl) should be supporting and advocating for bipoc all the time not just when we’re being violently targeted and it manages to make it to mainstream media. u can always be learning more i promise lmao and it should be a constant effort. updating google doc | thread of resources | ways to help/mental health resources | how you can act carrd

a friendly reminder that microaggressions against asians can also look like this:

pretending to gag at asian food

pretending to be weirded out by asian customs and cultures

excusing cultural appropriation (often through ignoring the stories of asians who have been mocked for wearing their ethnic dress while praising a white person for doing so)

not trying to learn how to pronounce an asian person's ethnic name correctly, or asking, "can i call you by something else?"

adopting an asian name for the ~aesthetic~

using the words "oriental" and "exotic" to describe asian people, particular asian women

ignoring the experiences and stories of south, southeast, and central asians

making sweeping assumptions about asian countries (including their political, historical and cultural landscape)

treating the entire asian community as a monolith and ignoring the fact that the experiences of asian nationals are remarkably different from the asian diaspora/migrant community

co-opting asian aesthetics into creative media without acknowledging their history

We finally have the names of all the victims who were slain in the Atlanta shootings.

Soon Jung Park, 74

Hyun Jung Kim, 51

Suncha Kim, 69

Yong Ae Yue, 63

Xiaojie Tan, 49

Daoyou Feng, 44

Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33

Paul Andre Michels, 54

Ever since the coverage of the shootings began, I’ve been obsessively checking the news for updates on the victims. The name and the image of the shooter were plastered EVERYWHERE, but nothing about the victims. It took THREE DAYS for us to learn all of the victims’ names.

Something like a dam burst inside me once the final names were released and I couldn’t stop crying. 6 of the women were Asian immigrants. They were somebody’s mother, daughter, sister, aunt, cousin, grandma. They could have been MY mother, daughter, sister, aunt, cousin, grandma. I see their names and I think of how much they must have given up to come to America and how much xenophobia and racism they endured, just like my own parents. My parents didn’t immigrate just for fun, they were escaping communism and they desperately wanted better opportunities for themselves and their families. These victims suffered so much to earn a place in American society and now it’s been cruelly taken away.

Unfortunately, their families will continue to feel pain and suffering despite the victims’ best attempts to provide them better lives.

I don’t want to put qualifications as to why anyone should care about the pain the AAPI community is in right now. (ex. If you like kpop or anime or Asian cultures, you should support AAPIs!) Honestly, if you are a human being capable of basic sympathy and/or empathy, you should care. But the fact of the matter is, I see very, very little being shared about the shootings and I’m greatly disappointed in the kpop fandom. I know tumblr is not the place to be getting news, everyone is dealing with pandemic exhaustion, maybe people are trying to give grace to AAPIs and not talk over them, etc.

But like….just 2 days before the shootings, everyone was chatting about how racist the Grammys were by using BTS fans to get their ratings up, but refusing to give BTS an award (which is also a valid discussion). Where did everybody go?? You don’t have the ability to reblog a few support links here and there? You were ready to fight over the Grammys, but not for racial equality?

I’m truly astounded by the stifling silence and genuinely hurt by the kpop fandom. You guys know BTS is Asian, right? Or do you only view Asians as a source of entertainment and not actual people in your community??

To be honest, I’ve been struggling with processing my feelings with these recent events. Growing up, I was taught to suffer in silence. My parents would give advice like if you ignore the problem, it will eventually go away. Keep your head down, work hard, and you’ll get by just fine. Someone else always has it worse than you so don’t complain.

But at what point do we allow ourselves to acknowledge our pain and suffering? I’ve been called slurs and hit on by gross men with Asian fetishes and all I could really do was keep my distance so that they wouldn’t hurt me. In the back of my mind, I always knew something worse could happen to me than these seemingly minor incidents, but I never felt I had a “right” to be upset – you know, since I was still alive – until now. Until members of our community started dying. It’s unfortunate that the conversation about anti-Asian racism is only starting now, when we’ve been dealing with aggressions for the past 150+ years.

To my fellow AAPIs, I want you to know I am here for you and I acknowledge your pain. Thank you for reading this.

I haven't been on this account for a while, but I wanted to talk about something. I don't have many followers but I still want to talk about it.

Right now it's a dangerous time for asians, not just in america. And as as someone who is asian, I have been more alert.

I wanted to talk about how the people I find posting or talking about this have been in the asian community or other POC . Rarely do I find a white person posting about it.

Comaring this to the Black Lives Matter movement, there are a lot less white creators talking about this, and reenforces the fact that issues with the asian community are often overlooked. If you don't adress the black lives matter movement, youre judged, but if you don't adress the issues that asians are facing, people wouldn't bat an eye

This is in no way an attack on anyone or community, I just want more white people to focus on Asian issues. If more white people start talking about it, their mostly white audiences will also be imformed and pass it on. Asian creators speaking out about it is also very important, but if you check, a lot of their audience is also in the asian community and/or is caught up on the situation. So people need to spread this information on to a wider range of people.

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لا احد يستطيع ان يعيش بالطريقة التي يعيش بها الناس في غزة، إسرائيل تهاجمهم في كل لحظة مما يدفع الأطفال والعائلات إلى هجر منازلهم والكثير منهم يموت بسبب الهجوم الصاروخي بدون إنذار! ولسنوات كانت إسرائيل تسيطر على 90% من التغطية الإعلامية بينما الان يستخدمون المحرقة والبطاقة المعادية للسامية ايضا لإسكات النقاش المشروع وتبرير التطهير العرقي في فلسطين ووسائل الإعلام العربية تكشف لهم مايفعلونه في غزة ⁣

فإسرائيل لا تريد السلام هذه هي الإبادة الجماعية والتطهير العرقي التي كانت تحدث عن لسنوات عديدة. الناس يموتون لا يوجد منصة صغيرة جدًا للتعبير عن الرأي ونشر الوعي، الرجاء الاستمرار في تضخيم أصوات الفلسطينيين حيث لا توجد أي تغطية إعلامية. وتتعرض غزة للهجوم بمئات الضربات الجوية. إذا كنت مسلمًا أو مسيحيًا أو أي شيء آخر غير مهم، فيجب أن تكون إنسانًا!!!! وتقع على عاتقنا جميعا مسؤولية مشاركتها ونشر الوعي بها..⁣

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No one would ever be able to live the way people live in Gaza, israel attack them at every single moment which leads kids and families to abandon their homes and a lot of them die because of the without warning missileattack! ⁣

For years israil have been controlling 90% of the media coverage while using the holocaust and antisemitic card to silence legitimate debate and justify ethnic cleansing in Palestine.⁣

Now the Arab media is showing them what they're doing in Gaza.⁣

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ISRAEL DOESN’T WANT PEACE. This is genocide⁣

and ethnic cleansing that has been happening for many years. People are DYING. No platform is too small to speak up and spread awareness, please continue to amplify Palestinians’ voices ، Because⁣

No exist any media coverage. Gaza is being under attack with over hundreds of air strikes . If u r a Muslim , Christian or what ever , not important, u must be human!!!! we all have the responsibilities to share it and spread awareness.⁣

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Artwork by : @bushrarateb

The events that unfolded over the past 24 hours in Atlanta were not isolated incidents. Hate crimes against Asian Americans have increased nearly 150% in the US in the last year. 

Last June, in the wake up of yet another uprising in hate crimes committed by white supremacists, we released the following statement:

White supremacists, Nazis, and other purveyors of hate can fully fuck off. They are not welcome here.

These words are as true today as they were then. We stand with the Asian American community. If you see hate speech on Tumblr, please report it. That shit is not tolerated here. 

To help the survivors and families of yesterday’s hate crimes, please consider donating to a nonprofit like the Atlanta branch of Asian Americans Advancing Justice if you can. If you can’t, consider spreading the word. We’ll list more resources and reblogs over on @action as we find them.

As always, please make sure you are taking care of yourself as well. If you’re struggling for any reason, please reach out to any of the free and confidential counseling services listed here.

the shooting in Atlanta of 8 massage parlour workers by a white man was a white supremacist hate crime and the latest in a series of attacks on Asians in the US. however, it’s also extremely important to note that the group he targeted are a community that is already more vulnerable to state violence than many, in form of police raids, deportations, and systematised stigmatisation. this is an industry that’s often conflated with and overlapping with sex work, and the industry has faced decades of criminalisation and dehumanisation, with a long history of being targeted by cops and systemic injustice along with racialised misogyny and fetishisation. they are also often excluded from conversations about the latest rise of anti-asian racism in the US, since many do not fulfill the “american” part of asian-american. 

if you can donate, also consider donating to red canary song, butterfly network, and swan vancouver, grassroots organisations and activists that fight for migrant and labour justice for migrant workers and sex workers.

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tw // anti-asian violence

there’s been a fuck ton of aapi hate since the beginning of the pandemic and especially lately, with the georgia shootings today, and even the grammys last sunday

all this said i just wanted to share a few resources (none mine!):

- anti-asian violence resources (this resource is also linked in my pinned, it contains information, petitions, places to donate and a lot more)

- stop asian hate (contains petitions, places to donate, ways to spread the word and more)

- sites to donate to and share (if you have a twitter please consider retweeting)

- a cumulative twitter thread with a little bit of everything and more than i explained

+ stop asian hate gofundme

+ asian american resource center (an atlanta based foundation focused on housing and civil classes)

—

if you have any resources you wanna share reply and/or reblog and i’ll add it, and with that please share this with the same tags <3 sending love to my fellow aapi, please stay safe all of you and don’t be fucking racist :]