#anti japanese racism

[solitaireships]

I feel like I should say since there's been a recent uptick in a lot of communities I'm in/see stuff from a lot of white people pretending to be Asian, but you are not welcome here if you are in anyway stealing from Asian cultures for clout or the aesthetics of it

This includes if you're white and you give your self inserts Asian names, I truly do not care if your f/o is from an anime, you should not be using an Asian name under any circumstances. I hate that whenever I see someone using an Asian name online, I feel like I have to start searching their account to see if they're actually Asian or just a white person who likes the aesthetic of it bcs far too many white people will use Asian names here just bcs it sounds cool, with no regard for the actual cultural meaning behind it. Meanwhile actual Asian people will be mocked for their names, or treated like their names are too hard to learn to pronounce, or discriminated against based on their names

Asian cultures are not a fun little costume for people to dress up with. They aren't just a nice aesthetic, they aren't just a thing you can borrow from bcs you think it sounds cool

[cervinae-canine]

i really dislike it when grown ass anime fans (who can you tell don't view japanese people as individuals), try to use the words of one japanese person on twitter as fuel to dogpile on a 16 year old who made a black edit for fun. as if most japanese people would give a shit over something so minuscule.

+ they act slimy or disgusting towards japanese artists who sincerely want to include diverse characters in their art. so it really shows that they don't care about the words of japanese people unless they just so happen to agree. its not even subtle at this point.

[1ore]

it wasn't enough that arizona's japanese internment camps were placed on gila river indian community and colorado river indian tribes' land as "reservations within reservations" (and against the desires of GRIC.) now i get to learn that chinese and japanese immigrants evaded the chinese exclusion act by traveling first to mexico and then to the u.s., entering through o'odham land, through the late 1800s own flavor of "prevention through deterrence," while the u.s. used what is by all rights a diverse and abundant desert to kill them, just as they do latine migrants today. and now i feel like i have to tell everyone i know about this because nobody told me. our fates as illegal immigrants are so tightly bound up i want to scream.

from Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis by Jared Orsi

[didiwaffles]

I should stop watching youtube cause I start getting opinions that need to be voiced but also I don't want to invite arguing upon myself

[acertainmoshke]

Going to place myself geographically a little bit here: I don’t live in Seattle but I do live close enough that my npr station is based there. And on my way to work I heard this story: there’s a museum doing an exhibit on how local Jewish, Black, and Asian communities have historically supported each other. It’s literally called something like “combatting hate” and is basically about how we can be and are here for each other not against each other. And 200+ employees walked off the job because apparently just talking about Jewish communities is Zionist propaganda.

The museum is relaunching the exhibit “with additional context,” but I’m so tired.

[kaleidoscope1967eyes]

when is someone going to stand up and say all the "how to date a japanese person" videos on youtube/instagram are just spreading racist 1980s stereotypes 🤡🤡🤡🤡

[mayasaura]

So. Rynosuke's first case in the British Empire. The defendant is a leprechaun, and the prosecutor is a vampire. Smashing start.

[zhengzi]

okay i have a lot of unincubated thoughts on kim’s relationship to asian-ness as filtered through my own experiences as a chinese diaspora person navigating both my home country in se asia and also canada for a period of time

also i need more lore on seol, i must flesh out the context of kim’s seolite heritage in proximity to seol’s place within the wider geopolitics and culture

if there are gaps in the lore, i will certainly fill them in myself

[agentfascinateur]

Don't stop talking about Gaza

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[fairynisse]

Asian skincare containing niacinamide, tranexamic acid, vitamin c, kojic acid, alpha arbutin, licorice root extract, rice bran extract, etc:

People outside Asia: "Omg, I'm scared it will bleach my skin and turn me white!"

Western skincare brands containing the same exact active ingredients:

People outside Asia: "Omg, my skin loves this brand. They're sooooooo innovative. My dark spots and pigmentation were lightened within a few weeks.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Canada entered the war with little military preparation, and with no external  intelligence capacity. British intelligence provided the sole source of intelligence to  Canada. Internally, defending Canada throughout the war meant assigning a  considerable number of troops, including conscripts, to guarding bridges, ports, dams, and the like.

Guarding from what? Possible enemy attacks, but there were none other than a few penetrations of German submarines into the St. Lawrence, and one harmless, Japanese flurry near Esquimault, B.C.

Guarding installations from sabotage? Yes, but in spite of the considerable discourse this possibility engendered in the early years of the war, in fact, there were never any incidents of sabotage throughout the war on Canada’s soil or waters, or in its airspace. Canada was safe, far away from theatres of war.

In fact, the obsession with protecting internal installations had mostly propaganda value, for the  real aim behind the announced defence of Canada was protecting Canada’s social order from labour agitators, as they were called, particularly those of the communist persuasion. This was a continuation of state policy from World War I and the inter-war period. In spite of the obvious peril presented by the significant fascist and pro-Nazi  element in Canada, the RCMP was fixated on the Red Peril, a fixation which led to the  internment of the communists and sympathizers.

Moreover, the Canadian state expended enormous energy jailing people in Canada during World War II. There were 34,000  German, Italian, and enemy, civilian prisoners-of-war held in Canada, including prisoners that the British had taken but asked Canada to guard, given Canadian distance from the theatres of war. Britain had sent another 5,400 plus enemy civilians to Canada to be  detained, including many of whom were Jewish or leftist refugees from rightist states in  Europe. Then, there were the enemy alien internees within Canada: 847 Germans, 632 Italians, and 782 Japanese, beyond the 22,000 plus Japanese evacuees from B.C..

At the same time, in spite of the considerable quantity of home-grown fascists in Canada, only 27 followers of Adrien Arcand, and Camillien Houde, the Conservative mayor of Montreal associated with Italian fascists, were interned while there were many more fascists floating about Canada unimpeded. Even getting the RCMP to move vis-à-vis the rightists operating in Canada required sustained effort from high-ranking public servants. 

When the RCMP did move against German and Italian operators, it did so with overkill, interning mostly innocent Germans, Italians and Japanese. Writing about the internment of the Italians, one writer says that the Canadian state behaved during World War II like a police state, rather than one governed by laws. The Canadian state took to heart literally the words in the national anthem about standing on guard.

Nevertheless, government policy makers made much of the idea that most Germans and Italians in Canada were quite innocent. For one thing, they were generally not on the left of the political spectrum. Furthermore, there were 600,000 Germans in Canada, and they had political clout. German-Canadians were mostly assimilated and/or naturalized, while few were recent immigrants with direct knowledge of Hitler’s regime. There were about 3,000 members in three pro-Nazi organizations: the Nationalist Socialist Workers Party, the Deutsche Arbeitsfront, and the Deutscher Bund. Among the 110,000 Italians in Canada, most were considered to have joined fascist organizations for social  purposes, and were judged to present no political or security risks.

Of course, this was not the estimate held of the Japanese. If the policy towards Germans and Italians was perceived internally as liberal, the hundreds of pointless arrests of these people leave one wondering what would have been an ílliberal policy. Would it have led to mass evacuations as it did in the case of the Japanese, against whom government planners displayed flagrant paranoia and racism?"

- Michael Martin, The Red Patch: Political Imprisonment in Hull, Quebec during World War 2. Self-published, 2007. p. 62-64

[andromedasummer]

one thing i love about my uni is even when the subject we are studying is about far away country or ultra specific phenomenon theres always a book in the syllabus, published by the university, by a member of that country and/or culture, by an expert on that special subject, who happened to attend my university too. who's lived in the same cities i have.

[thermesiini]

i mean not to mention that the entire season is what if there was something scary happening......indigenous style

[the-microphone-explodes]

Okay cool I guess we’re just doing racism but progressive now.

Also to boil down a vast majority of people (because Asian doesn’t just mean Japan, China, and South Korea) to boba and EDM is certainly A Choice.