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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: rp
Date: April 4, 2021, 6:33 pm
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The answer is to discard categories such as "Asian" and "Black"
altogether. But I am still figuring out how to effectively do
this on the propaganda level...
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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: guest5
Date: April 4, 2021, 7:19 pm
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Asian American, "Black" American, "White" American, Christian
American, Muslim American, Indian American, Native American,
South American, Gay American, Straight American,
Straight-"White"-Piano Playing-With a Twist of Lemon American,
Transgender American, etc. etc....
YOU ARE EITHER AN AMERICAN, OR YOU ARE A GUEST OF AMERICAN'S,
PICK ONE!!!
This is what true Nationalism looks like, versus the tribalism
that is currently practiced in America.
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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 5, 2021, 12:02 am
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"The answer is to discard categories such as "Asian" and
"Black" altogether. But I am still figuring out how to
effectively do this on the propaganda level..."
Every time you see supposed leftists use these terms without "",
tell them that these terms are part of the Western worldview and
hence using them in a serious manner reinforces Eurocentrism.
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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 8, 2021, 11:46 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-supremacy-root-race-related-120244625.html
--- Quote ---
> White supremacy is the root of all race-related violence in
the US
> ...
> The point I’ve made through all of those experiences is that
anti-Asian racism has the same source as anti-Black racism:
white supremacy. So when a Black person attacks an Asian person,
the encounter is fueled perhaps by racism, but very specifically
by white supremacy. White supremacy does not require a white
person to perpetuate it.
> ...
> White supremacy is an ideology, a pattern of values and
beliefs that are ingrained in nearly every system and
institution in the U.S. It is a belief that to be white is to be
human and invested with inalienable universal rights and that to
be not-white means you are less than human – a disposable object
for others to abuse and misuse.
>
> The dehumanization of Asian people by U.S. society is driven
by white supremacy and not by any Black person who may or may
not hate Asians.
>
> During the pandemic, “yellow peril” rhetoric that blamed China
for COVID-19 led to a 150% rise in anti-Asian harassment
incidents reported to police in 2020. In particular, East Asian
Americans or anyone who appeared to be of East Asian heritage or
descent became targets for the misplaced anger of people blaming
Chinese people or those they thought looked Chinese, even if
they were of other ethnic backgrounds, like Japanese, Taiwanese,
Korean, Burmese, Thai or Filipino.
> ...
> This same rhetoric of blaming anyone perceived to be Chinese
for COVID-19 and attacking them has been found in countless
reports of harassment, including one by a Vietnamese American
woman who was spat at by a white man as she tried to enter a
grocery store in March 2021. Four days later, video footage
showed a 76-year-old Chinese woman who was punched in the face
by a 39-year-old white man, on the same day that a white man
killed eight people, including six Asian women, in Atlanta.This
same rhetoric of blaming anyone perceived to be Chinese for
COVID-19 and attacking them has been found in countless reports
of harassment, including one by a Vietnamese American woman who
was spat at by a white man as she tried to enter a grocery store
in March 2021. Four days later, video footage showed a
76-year-old Chinese woman who was punched in the face by a
39-year-old white man, on the same day that a white man killed
eight people, including six Asian women, in Atlanta.
>
> Stories of individual harassment and violence perpetrated
against Asian Americans by white assailants don’t always get the
same attention as the viral videos of Black aggression toward
Asians.
>
> But underlying all these incidents is white supremacy, just as
white supremacy is responsible for Minneapolis police officer
Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for over eight
minutes: White supremacy made Floyd into a Black male threat
rather than a human being.
>
> Understanding the depth and reach of this ideology of racism
can be challenging, but doing so brings each person, and the
nation as a whole, closer to addressing systemic inequity. It’s
not Black people whom Asian Americans need to fear. It’s white
supremacy.
--- End Quote ---
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/sery-kim-lesson-those-think-173212501.html
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> Sery Kim is a Lesson for Those Who Think Pandering to
Whiteness Will Save Them from Anti-Asian Hate
> ...
> During a Republican forum last Wednesday, Texas congressional
candidate and former Trump official Sery Kim made racist remarks
about Chinese immigrants. “I don’t want them here at all,” she
said. “They steal our intellectual property, they give us
coronavirus, they don’t hold themselves accountable.”
>
> These comments are straight out of Trump’s playbook. They’re
false, xenophobic, and used for cheap political points. They’re
also grotesquely irresponsible at a time when targeted violence
against the Asian American community is at a terrifying high, in
large part due to rhetoric like this.
>
> Kim justified that rhetoric by adding, “Quite frankly, I can
say that because I’m Korean.”
>
> That last part. As a Korean American and lifelong Texan,
hearing Kim justify her absurd statements with her Koreanness
filled me with rage. When it comes to anti-Asian racism, it
doesn’t matter whether you’re Korean or Chinese. To our
attackers, we all have the same foreign faces. How could she say
something so thoughtless and dangerous, so divisive? But Kim
appeared to be laboring under the delusion that pandering to
conservative voters would give her power that her white GOP
counterparts enjoy.
>
> It gives me no joy to say that she was proved wrong in the
most vitriolic way. Her speech went viral, and she has since
been met with violent, racist messages online. Nobody deserves
to be subjected to such treatment, but I cannot say that I’m
surprised. Throwing her fellow Asian Americans under the bus did
not save her from racism or endear her to white America. In
addition to becoming the target of hateful trolls, Kim has been
thoroughly criticized by the Korean American community and lost
the endorsement of two Republican congresswomen of Korean
descent.
> ...
> our fates are tied together by the fact that here, we are
racialized in the same way. We are treated as perpetual
foreigners, and whatever acceptance we gain from our white
neighbors is conditional and can be revoked at the drop of a
hat. Proximity to whiteness will not save us. The only thing
that will save us is our solidarity with one another.
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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 20, 2021, 10:29 pm
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There is still hope for America!
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m--Es5DU7bY
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/rep-ilhan-omar-chauvin-trial-193203583.html
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> “The community is still on edge and feels that we are a
community that has experienced injustice over and over again.
This might actually be the turning point.”
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All who agree with this verdict must unite as Americans.
All who disagree with this verdict are anti-American and must be
recognized as such by Americans, and have their bloodlines
eliminated.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uo587ng9w4
[img width=952
height=1280]
HTML https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzWqEtFUYA0IFrV?format=jpg&name=large[/img]
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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 27, 2021, 10:12 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/over-2-500-asian-american-171210926.html
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> More than 2,500 residents of New York City have come together
to sign an open letter calling for the inclusion of Asian
American history in public schools on Monday.
>
> The letter, addressed to Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York
City Schools Chancellor Meisha Ross Porter, argues that the
surge in anti-Asian incidents has highlighted the “woefully
inadequate” education of Asian American history in the school
curriculum — and that instruction must start in the earliest
grades.
>
> "The future of our city and our nation depends on what our
children learn in school today," reads the letter, which was
mostly signed by parents. “Asian American children must know
their history in this country so they can be proud of their
heritage and stand up to discrimination and hate."
>
> It adds that students not of Asian descent must learn the
history as well, in order to "better understand and respect the
racial and ethnic background and identity of their Asian
American peers."
>
> “The stories of how Asian Americans have stood up against
racism and discrimination and fought to realize their dreams
must be told. Asian American history is American history.”
> ...
> “We believe that by learning about the history of each member
of our community— how we arrived at this land and how we helped
to build this nation and city together— we will be more united,
empathetic and respectful to each other; we will be better able
to fight racism, discrimination and inequality,” it states.
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Also, the first thing that should be taught is that the almost
all countries now classified as "Asian" never thought of
themselves as such prior to being classified as such by Western
civilization.
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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 30, 2021, 2:12 am
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/one-another-communities-color-unite-143154016.html
--- Quote ---
> ‘We need one another’: Communities of color unite against
injustice
>
> Emma Tang, a Taiwanese American student at New York
University, was sitting outside a Chinese restaurant last
October, eating with her friends, when a white man approached
her from behind and hit her over the head with a dirty bed
sheet.
> ...
> In the wake of the recent mass shootings in Atlanta, in which
eight people were killed, including six women of Asian descent,
communities of color are mobilizing together because of their
shared struggles and common goal of battling racism. “The fact
that so many Blacks and Hispanics marched in solidarity with
Asian groups … is a positive indication that minorities see
injustice against one group as injustice against all,” says Earl
Ofari Hutchinson, a radio show host, political analyst, and
author of “Why Black Lives Do Matter.” “This could be a huge
political game changer in the future,” he adds.
> ...
> For Ms. Tang, the fight is intersectional, but she
acknowledges that there is anti-Black racism in the Asian
American community, which can lead to distrust between the two
groups. In fact, however, the notion that there are high levels
of Black-on-Asian crime is false. Researchers at the University
of Michigan found that, in 2020, 90% of perpetrators in reported
anti-Asian incidents were white, and only 5% of perpetrators
were Black.
>
> While some may try to weaponize Black-Asian conflict,
hate-inspired tragedies like the 2019 mass shooting targeting
Mexicans at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas; police killings of
Blacks and Latinos; and the Atlanta shootings are actually
fueling unity. “What you have seen as a result of these highly
visible and highly tragic events is the intensifying of a
reckoning with how racism and discrimination have infected many
of our systems and people at the same time,” says Clarissa
Martínez-de-Castro, deputy vice president for policy and
advocacy at UnidosUS, the nation’s largest Latino civil rights
and advocacy group. “And they need to stand up and not only call
it out, but do the work to address the disparate treatment and
fight for equity.”
>
> Some people of color, like Ms. Tang and Ms. Williams, are
fighting for the collective – “to do right by all communities of
color,” as Ms. Williams puts it.
> ...
> Ms. Williams benefited from that unity when she attended her
first protest after George Floyd’s murder. She was overwhelmed,
she says, to see the multiracial makeup of the Black Lives
Matter marches last summer. “For a long time, I thought Black
people were alone.”
>
> In fact, nonwhites across races share concerns on a variety of
issues, including immigration reform and U.S. policy at the
Mexico border. “I think Asians can understand some aspects of
the Latinx situation as fellow immigrants. And, of course,
there’s a lot of undocumented Asian people in the United
States,” says Professor Chin from UC Davis. “Asian-Americans
have an experience of being hassled by the police in the same
way as Latinx people at the border.”
> ...
> “We need one another”
>
> Yet some young activists believe this moment is the beginning
of their revolution. Ms. Tang calls it “the birth of a fresh,
new, powerful coalition of BIPOC communities aligning together
in the grassroots sphere” (referring to Black, Indigenous, and
other people of color).
>
> To continue developing strong, sustainable coalitions, Mr.
Hutchinson says, protesters need “planning, proper
issues-framing, consistency, and most importantly, aware,
politically engaged, proactive leadership.”
>
> Ms. Williams, for one, says she is dedicated to supporting
other communities of color because she sees their struggles
against oppression intertwined with hers. “It’s about being
mentally strong, never backing down,” she explains.
>
> Ms. Tang concurs. At a recent solidarity march, she witnessed
a diverse crowd of Black transgender women, Indigenous people,
and Latinos fighting for women of Asian descent. “It feels very
validating, and it makes me feel safe knowing that there are
people looking out for us. And we don’t have to fight this on
our own,” she says.
>
> Ms. Tang, who hides a taser up her sleeve whenever she leaves
her apartment, says she’s less fearful now whenever someone
yells a racial slur or harasses her in the streets. “Stop Asian
Hate would not be around today without Black Lives Matter,” she
says. “Our movements have always bounced off of each other and
been inspired by each other. Historically we need one another to
advance our liberation.”
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Exactly. On the other hand, none of us need the ADL:
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/droptheadl/
because:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/
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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 4, 2021, 2:42 am
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Our enemies again agree with us about what Americanism is, and
that they are anti-American:
HTML https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2021/05/03/how-will-wokeism-die/
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> my predictions are that the death of Wokeism will include some
of the following elements:
>
> In Europe and elsewhere it will take on a form of
anti-Americanism. Those using “woke” jargon will be denounced as
lapdogs of the American Empire and its sick culture, and accused
of resorting to “American words” when they make their usual
power plays. They will be associated with America’s Globohomo
Imperium. This is not as unlikely as it may sound to some
Americans because it is undeniable that Wokeism is all part and
parcel of US attempts at globally projecting its “anti-cultural”
power.
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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: rp
Date: May 4, 2021, 7:05 pm
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--- Quote from: 90sRetroFan link ---
>
> Our enemies again agree with us about what Americanism is, and
that they are anti-American:
>
>
HTML https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2021/05/03/how-will-wokeism-die/
>
> [quote]my predictions are that the death of Wokeism will
include some of the following elements:
>
> In Europe and elsewhere it will take on a form of
anti-Americanism. Those using “woke” jargon will be denounced as
lapdogs of the American Empire and its sick culture, and accused
of resorting to “American words” when they make their usual
power plays. They will be associated with America’s Globohomo
Imperium. This is not as unlikely as it may sound to some
Americans because it is undeniable that Wokeism is all part and
parcel of US attempts at globally projecting its “anti-cultural”
power.
--- End Quote ---
[/quote]
For the record, I support establishing an American Empire:
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/America_1000_BCE.png/220px-America_1000_BCE.png
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Re: Uniting Americans
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 11, 2021, 3:52 am
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Yes! Someone got our message!
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/asian-american-hate-im-reclaiming-080015541.html
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> After a year of chafing and muttering about it to myself, I am
ready to say this out loud. I am refusing the acronym BIPOC. I
am taking it out of my mouth. I’m laying it down. I am
recommitting to the much maligned term "people of color." I’m
not doing this because I’m old-fashioned or politically
retrograde. As a Black woman who loves Black people, I am
acutely aware of the unique and specific ways that racism harms
Black people. I’m refusing BIPOC to reclaim a strength: the
political power of solidarity.
>
> BIPOC – an acronym for Black, Indigenous and other people of
color – was part of how we talked about race during the COVID-19
spring of 2020. The term was useful to bring focus to the deadly
experiences of oppression faced by Black and Indigenous people.
Although some people didn’t like it or didn’t understand it, the
term BIPOC filled the streets with multiracial rage about the
murder of George Floyd and anti-Black policing. BIPOC reminded
us to open our Zoom with acknowledgements that wherever we are,
we are on Indigenous land.
>
> COVID, Trump sparked anti-Asian hate
>
> But another racial pattern was also emerging that spring.
World leaders, including then-President Donald Trump, used the
pandemic to revive racist stereotypes of Chinese people as
sources of disease. Economic boycotts of Asian-owned business
soon followed. Then newspapers began to report physical attacks
on individuals of Asian and Pacific Island heritage as hate
crimes.
>
> In the middle of a national uprising against racism, it took
another year and the mass killing of six Asian women before we
paid serious attention to racism expressed as anti-Asian hate.
>
> Certainly, many grassroots organizers mentioned individual
attacks as examples of white supremacy. But there was no
consistent frame that integrated individual hate crimes against
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders into the larger picture of
structural racism and anti-colonialism that our nation was
revolting against.
>
> In moments like these, words matter. They shape what we can
imagine. The phrase “people of color” was created by Black,
Latina, Asian and Indigenous women who had to invent new
language to describe their political coalition in the face of
white feminism.
>
> Words can invent, words can destroy. There are real-world
consequences to the words we choose. In a moment of intense
white backlash, our cutting-edge discourse about ending white
supremacy used a word that marginalized Asian Americans and
Pacific Islanders into the racialized stereotype of “other,”
even among people of color. “BIPOC” inadvertently replaced the
power of solidarity with a comfortable, familiar racial
hierarchy.
>
> Move past BIPOC to show solidarity
>
> Legendary scholar/artist/activist Bernice Johnson Reagon
wrote: “If you're in a coalition and you're comfortable, you
know it's not a broad enough coalition.” People of color is not
a racial identity but a political one. It describes a tenuous,
deeply uncomfortable state of coalition held together by the
knowledge that it will take all of us standing together to wear
down and tear down the structures of white supremacy.
>
> Refusing BIPOC means when I write about the shared experience
of the multiethnic, multinational group of people of African
descent, I will talk about Black people. When pointing to the
ongoing harms of settler colonialism, I will specify Indigenous
people and Indigenous land. But when I want to describe an
alliance that includes people from every group that is
racialized and subjugated to keep white supremacy alive – people
of African, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, Pacific Islander and Arab
heritage – I will talk about people of color.
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Thank you for correctly excluding Jews.
Now just put "" around "African" and "Asian" if you must use
them at all. As you say, words matter. Stop using colonialist
vocabulary!
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