About a week ago I posted this.

I’ve been getting horrible messages like this in my ask for months, including:

and my personal favorite

After getting the message saying “Just go kill yourself” I was completely done dealing with this person’s horrible messages and replied with just an “Okay.” and logged off tumblr.

About a week later I logged back on with 17 messages in my ask, most of them from the anon. I scrolled down and at first when I logged off, the anon messaged me things like

I scrolled up more and all of a sudden they started sending me more and more messages like

This was extremely surprising to me. I thought “After all those horrible messages you sent to me for MONTHS about hating me and wanting me dead, you say ‘sorry’ and that you ‘cant be responsible for someone’s suicide’?”

But I guess the lesson goes like this:

But words also have the power to leave wounds far worse than any physical injury one could sustain. Words have the power to destroy a person so completely that it may take years to recover, IF they recover at all. Words, especially words like that, absolutely have the power to kill.

Understand that your words do carry power, and you are the only one who decides whether you want to build people up or tear them down. Understand that if you use hateful words like that, if you tell someone to kill themselves, you are accepting the possibility that they may go through with it. TELL SOMEONE TO KILL THEMSELVES, AND THEIR BLOOD IS ON YOUR HANDS. Can’t handle that?

In the summer of 2020, 990 Asian American Pacific Islander youth were interviewed about anti-Asian racism amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey, conducted by Stop AAPI Hate Youth Campaign, found that 8 out of 10 AAPI youth are angry about the current state of anti-Asian racism in the U.S. More than half expressed disappointment about racism at large. President Trump has made branding COVID-19 the ‘China Virus’ central to his re-election campaign.

Since March 19, Stop AAPI Hate has received at least 341 reports of anti-Asian discrimination involving youth. AAPI youth are involved in at least 16% of the nation’s anti-Asian discrimination cases, which include verbal, physical, and online harassment. Girls are more likely to experience verbal harassment than boys, whereas boys are more than twice as likely to be assaulted.

The Stop AAPI Hate Youth Campaign issued 5 recommendations for combatting anti-Asian discrimination: race education, anti-bullying training, improved reporting procedures for online harassment, restorative justice, and student-led campaigns.

Free ‘em all

Chadwick Boseman’s MCU Colleagues on the ABC News Special Tribute

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