A Different Point of View

People were comparing the visibility that BLM got to SAH (and other movements and problems too; this definitely wasn't just SAH) while ignoring the fact the BLM was around for nearly a decade before 2020 (with many, many protests under it's belt) and the fact that it was the riots the drew people's attention. Hell, rappers have been talking about police brutality in music pretty consistently since the 90s (and before that too) and sportsmen too. But, with activism the more visibility it gets the more it puts the blk community and people in danger.

In a previous protest (years ago about a blk man who got shot; don't even remember which one) there were blk activists speaking out and I remember seeing comments asking people to keep a careful eye on them in case they die under 'sudden circumstances' (after the Civil Rights Movement all major activists were murdered over time; the FBI admitted later it was involved in some way with all of their deaths and the blk community was severely targeted for 'stirring the pot' so to speak). So there's lots of fear and trauma there I think other PoC don't really realize when it comes to activism for the blk community.

Activism is kinda seen like a life or death kind of thing; something you do if you have the strength. So when people from other movements demand or attempt to guilt trip BLM and the Blk community (because out of all the movements and protests only BLM was explicitly targeted) for more attention for their movements while simultaneously recognizing many of their own community haven't even been speaking out and putting work into it while also having anti-blackness in there too and scorning BLM for it's visibility.....well, it tends to piss a lot of Blk people off tbh. Especially since so many tagged all this under BLM which means it was under the tag meant for the Blk community.

Also, don't get discouraged about the vitriol and hate comments. BLM tag got them too (that'll happen any time anyone speaks up anyway). As a matter of fact I think it might be the same person/people. Because Blk bloggers got nearly the same comments.

-Same anon from before.

This really puts a lot in perspective, I wanna really thank you for your patient explanation! There's so much history behind not just the movements but also the people themseves that I and a lot of other peopel black, asian, white etc really dont know about each other but also ourselves? The "Stop Asian Hate" tag had a lot of history on racism against asians and how it's perpetuated everywhere in society that I never knew about. I followed the blm tag (and the movement itself too ofc) but i'd only seen the pure racist reaction from white people but I realise when other people start demanding your activism for their own shit that gets real bored real soon.

There is so much history and so many frustrations in general between different minority groups that it's really not as easy as saying "we should all work together" and it makes it easier for racists and white dickheads to come and disrupt everything we're working toward making us dump all our frustrations on each other.

It’s okay to sometimes feel distant from your parents because they are white and you are not

People like to say “don’t ask white people” like it’s the logical thing. But as an adoptee, mostly secluded from any other poc, it’s not that easy

It’s okay if you’re not interested in “your culture”

It’s okay  if you are interested and want to learn more

It’s okay to let your voice be heard, don’t let anyone silence you

It’s okay to want to know your biological parents

It’s okay not to be interested in knowing your biological family

There were also plenty of posts appeared to compare the two but reeked of anti-black rhetoric too.

It was very frequent too; like overall *at least* every 1 in 8/10 posts. I didn't really see any blk people doing it tbh (though I did find lots of posts addressing it from blk people) mostly people who claimed to identify as white, Latino/Hispanic, and yes, Asian.

Nobody's really doing it or talking about it now thank goodness but it was definitely a thing for quite a while.

I'm definitely not trying to say any of that is okay but it's really gotten to a point where there's mostly reaction posts to things that aren't trending in the tag anymore. And yeah it's super tempting to compare to blm, just the fact that sah is not "gaining as much traction or attention" which is prob the main theme of posts like that and also super wrong but it's also super exhausting to finally have an actual movement, even if it's not super big or even if a lot of non asians dont give a shit, and then to see the first 20 posts be mostly about how horrible asians are or how we're not really opressed while asians are getting assaulted and attacked...it's not even about being "more opressed" it's about thinking we have something, some movement and then finding it literally has no substance except negativity after 2 weeks of existing

Dont tell us to not compare it to blm, when the ONLY comparisons are by black people or other non asians in a negative light??

It's a literally a tag to stop racism and MURDER and ASSAULT on asians???