The guy complaining about Chinese people discriminating against Black People: I get it, it's bad. It's never justified, but these same people also forget that Africans/Blacks are just as likely to be racist, and HAVE BEEN increasingly aggressive to Chinese/Asians, too. But you know, lets pretend only Asians are the perpetrators. And once again, Indians and Muslim/Arabs in the Asia region are no where to help us out, even though they claim to be "Asian".
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Also, as weeks go on, more and more videos/articles of stupid white and black people disregarding the social distancing bylaws and/or doing stupid/dangerous stuff all for the sake of "entertainment". Not just the Men, but women too. Yet they all have the gull to blast Asians/Chinese? Fuck this bullshit world.
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My response:
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The antagonism between black and Asian people definitely goes both ways. Black people often describe Asian people as extremely racist, with accusations of anti-blackness, "proximity to whiteness", and lack of solidarity, but then tend to overlook when black people are racist to Asian people too. We also can't ignore the fact that many of the recent acts of violence on Asian people have been committed by black people too.
There is also the more subtle things, like the characterisation of Asian issues as "not real issues" because black people have it harder. And while I agree that, on average, black people do have a harder time, this doesn't mean that our issues are insignificant. Another subtle thing, is the implication that Asian people should take the lead from black people on racial discourse because of the assumption that they know better. These attitudes make it difficult to have a productive conversation.
Obviously, this is not all black people, and we do have black allies who should be recognised and appreciated. And yes, Asian people should be addressing the racism within our community. But so should black people.
I can't comment on the Indian/Muslim/Arab thing since I don't know much about it.
On people not practising social distancing or breaking quarantine etc, I have certainly noticed that it is mostly non-Asian people doing this. Asian people (obviously I'm not talking about the CCP) do tend to follow those measures more seriously. Plus most Asian people are wearing face-masks*.
*I'm aware that the wearing of face-masks is a debated issue (in terms of limited resources and effectiveness), but the consistent wearing of face-masks by Asian people indicates how seriously Asian people are taking this crisis.
