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Look, I'm Asian.

When I heard, saw the pictures of people who look like my parents, grandparents, friends, aunts, and uncles, people who have faces and postures and accents I associate with safe, comfort, family. To see pictures of those people on the floor, blood on their faces, faces that look so similar to mine, and think this could be my mom. my dad. my best friend. my little brother. this could be me.

Please stop it. Stop hurting people.

And I don't mean one person in Georgia, but the people here. Yesterday, I saw some comments on a post, where people were saying they deserved it, we deserved it. Why? Because of a decision the country us or our ancestors once lived in? A country we don't even live in, some of us who haven't live in for generations?

Would you blame yourselves for locking children in cages, for murder? Would you go out in the street to shoot people, saying that it's their fault their government did these things?

I saw some (presumably) Black people say that we are part of the racism, Asians have helped and stood by while people were hurt.

Well, isn't that what you're doing now? Helping and standing by while people are hurt? Believe it or not, not all Asians are the same person. What if a Black person did me wrong? Would when the time came, would I not give help? Would I stand by? Isn't the entire point to not judge people by the color of their skin? We should be united, helping each other. But instead, we are participating in one type of discrimination while fighting against the other. Everybody.

Gonna get fucking Bear Spray to protect myself, fuck this shit- I’m not letting anyone get away with hitting me or threatening me.