I'm also Asian and I'm telling you're fuckass anons right now that if I was at a school party in the middle of the woods with a bunch of drunk, possibly high on some drugs white people and they've started saying, doing some racist shit and acting like nazis, I'm immediately going to feel unsafe and I'm keeping my mouth shut. There's no calling out racist behavior or speeches about racism. I'm gonna suck it up and I am playing it cool until I can get away.
This is the part where white people will never understand. Because yall keep saying he should've known something was being drawn on him, he should've done something about it blah blah blah. For us POC, sometimes the only way to stay safe is to be quiet. Because I sure as hell am not getting murdered by drunk racist white kids in the middle of the woods for that.
Yes it sucks. But I'd rather live.
YES YOU ARE SO RIGHT!!! I think it all comes down to white people being unable to conceptualize that sort of danger— to them, there’s no problem because they are often the ones causing it. I’ve been in situations where friends of friends have said some deeply fucked shit and I’ve felt like I had to stay silent because I didn’t know how they would react. Especially when you’re a teenager you tend to prioritize your own safety, and anyone who blames Hudson for acknowledging the danger he was potentially in (and frankly good on him for being able to do that while drunk) is someone I would not want around me when I’m forced to be around those people.
Real life is not a movie. Speeches about why Nazism is bad don’t do shit except put a target on your back. In the middle of the woods. While you are under the influence.
If Hudson knew what was happening (unlikely) and he did say something, who knows what his story would have been. I would like to hope that he would have made it out of the woods, but I truly can’t say that with confidence. And this is something that all the white people complaining will never understand. And I’m glad they don’t. I never want anyone to feel like we do. But they can’t claim that feeling doesn’t exist.
And this goes especially for Asians. We’re the expendable people of color, shoved to the side, tacked on at the end if we’re lucky. Would anyone have cared if one more kind, talented, brave, Asian boy went missing? Would they look for him? Would it make the news? Would anyone go to prison? Do we care about the missing and murdered Asian people that are missing and murdered right now?
Some people will never understand the true answers to those questions. And good, I don’t want them to. I don’t want them to have to live in our reality. But let’s not pretend it doesn’t exist, okay?
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