#generalization

the little kid: ummm...i'm grateful for china...because that's where i'm from...

me: great! how about you write that down in your workbook.

*later i'm telling my mom about this*

my mom: you should've corrected her when she said china because it's a country where christians get persecuted :/

me: .....she's 5!!!!

my mom: all the more reason for you to redirect her! she doesn't know any better, you need to explain to her in a way she can understand!

i was like...15...i felt like it was the most ridiculous thing my mom had ever said that i was aware of....idk, i'm white...but i feel like my mom saying "you can't thank The Lord™️ for the country you were born in....because government bad" is such a wild take

This is racism.

Even if your post has 40k reblogs on it, all unique experiences from different people who had (whatever amount) sample size you're still not gonna touch even 500k much less the entire demographic.

....yes even if CIS PERISEX MEN have millions of statistics on being awful, you got easily 4 fucking billion or so men on this planet so it can't be used to generalize either.

Bananas are yellow, does this mean that yellow = banana?

No, yellow = yellow

Yellow =/= banana, does this mean bananas aren't yellow?

Lemons are yellow, does this mean lemon = banana?

Lemon =/= banana, does this mean lemons aren't yellow?

Some apples are yellow, does this mean yellow = apple?

Some apples are red or green, does this mean apples can't be yellow?

Some apples are red, some apples are yellow, does this mean red = yellow?

Lemons and apples are round but bananas aren't, does this mean bananas aren't yellow?

Apples and bananas are sweet, does this mean lemon's aren't sour? Or that sourness is bad?

Bananas, lemons, and apples are fruit, does this mean mustard isn't yellow?

No, yellow = yellow

A category groups things that share a commonality despite their differences. The differences coexist within that commonality without redefining the category.

Other similarities coexist within, and without, the commonality without redefining the category either. The fact that it doesn't redefine the category does not mean those similarities don't hold significance of their own.

If not for the commonality, it wouldn't be a category. If not for the differences, it wouldn't be a category either.

Okay? Cool

asiaphobia is us having to tell my (japanese immigrant to america) grandfather (who does speak english but prefers talking in japanese cause it's his native language) to stop talking in japanese during 2020 cause we were afraid he was going to get attacked (a lot of asian people were at the time for "causing covid" or some stupid thing)

his response was that it's chinese people that were getting the accusations, and while that was obviously very terrible, we are japanese and therefore are not subject to this. grandfather. if someone is racist enough to attack someone for speaking chinese they are racist enough to not check which east asian language you are speaking. like i know they sound different. however not to a racist they don't.

thankfully nothing ever actually ended up happening to him, but i remember being genuinely scared that it would

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