~Asian privilege~ is a BULLSHIT, anti-Asian idea

when Asians discriminate against other POC, it’s the reproduction and propagation of white supremacy, NOT Asian privilege

whenever POC discriminate against other POC, its the reproduction and propagation of white supremacy

what did y’all think Malcolm X was talking about with his house slave-field slave speech?

what did y’all think Junot Diaz was talking about when he said, ”White supremacy’s greatest trick is that it has convinced peoplethat it exists always in other people, never in us”????

to say ~Asian privilege~ is real is an anti-Asian exercise because:

1. it denies our history of oppression

look up Yellow Peril. prior to 1966, we were stereotyped as dumb manual laborers who would rape and murder you in your sleep. (remember, we built the western half of the Transcontinental Railroad, we did people’s laundry, and we were storeowners in the Wild West. hence, the word cha-ching.) but then the CRM happened, and shit like Yuri Kochiyama being Malcolm X’s best friend scared the shit out of people. in 1966, some white people released a paper about how their “data” showed that Asians were ~actually~ hardworking, studious, and whatnot. that’s when Model Minority started. it got another boost in the 1980s when Reagan needed a counterexample for his whole “Black Welfare Queens” bullshit. 

here’s an often-quoted paper on the dialectic between Model Minority and Yellow Peril. just because we’re currently stereotyped as smart but physically inferior DOES NOT MAKE US PRIVILEGED. 

2. it denies our current oppression

we don’t face physical violence because of white supremacy? oh that’s hilarious because I’m pretty sure all the Asians who are getting their homes busted in by ICE would disagree. (we are the fastest growing demographic of undocumented people in the States!) Asian women experience domestic violence at two to three times the rate of women of other races. we have the highest suicide rate of any “minority” group (including LGBTQ and women) in the States. 

and this whole thing about “oh yeah well maybe not SE Asians but East Asians don’t get discriminated against that much, not as much as other POC”…are you fucking kidding me? are you really going to pull that bullshit policing of identity shit and ranking of experiences, which, let me remind you, ranking of races is a cornerstone of white supremacy and you’re doing the EXACT SAME FUCKING THING, YOU DUMBFUCKS???

don’t let the door hit you on your way out. 

3. it denies how our identity has been yanked around by people and white supremacy for white supremacy’s benefit

reference point #1. anti-blackness is the fulcrum of white supremacy, which is why our identity’s being used to justify anti-blackness, duh. and there’s a lot of anti-blackness in Asian communities, duh. and yes, there’s a hell lot of privilege to being lighter-skinned, duh. and no, I wouldn’t trade being Asian for being Black, duh. but to say those four points equate ~Asian privilege~ is anti-Asian. to call out anti-blackness in Asian communities without CHECKING YOURSELF and to call out anti-asian sentiment in your own community is LACKING SELF-REFLEXIVITY. to deny that ALL POC, not some POC, benefit from white supremacy is to COMPLETELY MISS THE ENTIRE FUCKING POINT.

y’all are always talking about solidarity. where’s the fucking solidarity, huh?

also, recheck your working definition of power, privilege, and oppression, and know your history. or, as my favorite anime character always says, “Look underneath the underneath.”

ugh I swear to my ancestors this is the last thing I’m writing about this topic today

but people

when Asian people discriminate against each other, is that ~Asian privilege~ coming out? when Asian women say they don’t like Asian men because Asian men “have small dicks,” is that ~Asian privilege~?

when Black people discriminate against each other, what is that? when Black people pull that dumbass “you’re not Black enough” bullshit a la Cornel West on one another, what is that?

what do y’all think Malcolm X’s house slave-field slave speech was about?

(hint: HOW POC BENEFIT FROM WHITE SUPREMACY AND HOW WE REINFORCE AND PROPAGATE IT)

I dare

no, I fucking double dare

someone to tell me that when Asians discriminate against Asians, that it’s ~Asian privilege~ coming out.

I dare you.

I dare you to tell me that Jews have a ~special privilege~ that is separate from white supremacy. 

I FUCKING DARE YOU.

oh, you won’t? gee, I wonder why. maybe it’s because you’re idea of ~Asian privilege~ is FULL OF SHIT.

fuck you. 

people

when you lump Asian/Asian-Americans into a monolithic group

e.g. “Asians have the highest average family income,” “Asians on average have the highest education attainment”

THAT IS BEING ANTI-ASIAN, YOU DUMBFUCKS

we are not all the same

and you are reproducing white supremacy when you do that!

atomstargazer: Happy Birthday.“In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.” ― Michio Kaku Today is the birthday of a very famous theoretical physicist, Prof. Michio Kaku. He is the the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics in the City College of New York of City University of New York, a futurist, and a communicator and popularizer of science. He has written several books about physics and related topics; he has made frequent appearances on radio, television, and film; and he writes extensive online blogs and articles. He has written two New York Times Best Sellers, Physics of the Impossible (2008) and Physics of the Future (2011). He has hosted several TV specials for BBC-TV, the Discovery Channel, and the Science Channel. At Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, Kaku assembled an atom smasher in his parents’ garage for a science fair project. His admitted goal was to generate “a beam of gamma rays powerful enough to create antimatter.” At the National Science Fair in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he attracted the attention of physicist Edward Teller, who took Kaku as a protégé, awarding him the Hertz Engineering Scholarship. Kaku graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1968 and was first in his physics class. He attended the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley and received a Ph.D. in 1972, and in 1972 he held a lectureship at Princeton University. Prof. Kaku has had over 70 articles published in physics journals such as Physical Review, covering topics such as superstring theory, supergravity, supersymmetry, and hadronic physics. In 1974, along with Prof. Keiji Kikkawa of Osaka University, he authored the first papers describing string theory in a field form. A collection of some websites which highlights his works, publications, and achievements are as follows : Official website of Prof. Kaku - In this 3 hour long interview, Prof. Kaku talked about his life, career, and his work -  A playlist of over 70 videos, by Prof. Kaku, where he addresses many interesting as well as some controversial topics, like nanotechnology, dark matter, telepathy, etc.. -  Some research papers by Prof. Kaku, at Arxiv. org, available freely at WWW domain - 
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atomstargazer:

Happy Birthday.

“In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.”
― Michio Kaku

Today is the birthday of a very famous theoretical physicist, Prof. Michio Kaku. He is the the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics in the City College of New York of City University of New York, a futurist, and a communicator and popularizer of science. He has written several books about physics and related topics; he has made frequent appearances on radio, television, and film; and he writes extensive online blogs and articles. He has written two New York Times Best Sellers, Physics of the Impossible (2008) and Physics of the Future (2011).
He has hosted several TV specials for BBC-TV, the Discovery Channel, and the Science Channel.

At Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, Kaku assembled an atom smasher in his parents’ garage for a science fair project. His admitted goal was to generate “a beam of gamma rays powerful enough to create antimatter.” At the National Science Fair in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he attracted the attention of physicist Edward Teller, who took Kaku as a protégé, awarding him the Hertz Engineering Scholarship. Kaku graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1968 and was first in his physics class. He attended the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley and received a Ph.D. in 1972, and in 1972 he held a lectureship at Princeton University.

Prof. Kaku has had over 70 articles published in physics journals such as Physical Review, covering topics such as superstring theory, supergravity, supersymmetry, and hadronic physics. In 1974, along with Prof. Keiji Kikkawa of Osaka University, he authored the first papers describing string theory in a field form.

A collection of some websites which highlights his works, publications, and achievements are as follows :

Official website of Prof. Kaku -

In this 3 hour long interview, Prof. Kaku talked about his life, career, and his work - 

A playlist of over 70 videos, by Prof. Kaku, where he addresses many interesting as well as some controversial topics, like nanotechnology, dark matter, telepathy, etc.. - 

Some research papers by Prof. Kaku, at Arxiv. org, available freely at WWW domain - 

Nate Shinagawa Jumping In Polls!

fascinasians:

Nate Shinagawa Jumping In Polls!

In a recently released memo, it’s revealed that New York’s upstate race is really heating up! Not only is Nate kicking ass with severalTV ads, this poll shows that he’s actually leaping in support with voters! 

A recently conducted poll in New York’s 23 Congressional District shows a 10-12 point swing among voters ENTIRELY TOWARD NATE SHINAGAWA, bringing Shinagawa within 5 points of his opponent, Republican Congressman Tom Reed.

In a poll conducted August 21 – 23 of likely voters, Reed garnered merely 39% of voters who had settled on a candidate to support – a vulnerable position for any incumbent Republican in a Presidential election year – with an additional 8% who leaned in his favor. Shinagawa took 30% initially, and picked up an additional 4% with voters leaning his way.

Since August, Shinagawa has considerably narrowed the margin, picking up an additional 10 – 12 points, largely from the demographics identified in August as most likely to respond to his message. Meanwhile, Reed has virtually remained in the same position, despite having gone uncontested on television for the last 6 weeks. In short, our message is resonating with voters across the district, and our strategy is working.

Among the demographic groups identified in August as most likely to swing toward Shinagawa ater an aggressive paid and earned media campaign (see graph below), we see incredible movement after just 1 week on television, especially among key groups that traditionally make up swing or undecided voters. Of particular importance is Shinagawa’s movement among Independents, voters in the Western region to whom both candidates are new, and women. All three groups make up the largest undecided bloc – in fact, 70% of undecided voters are women.

Remember to SHARE AND SHARE AND SHARE. The more people that know about this race, the better. Along with Otto Lee, Jay Chen, Tammy Duckworth, and many more, we can really start getting more Asian American representatives into office! So take this and SIGNAL BOOST the hell out of it because our boy needs our support NOW!

Go go go fellow Cornellian! Nate Shinagawa’s super cool. I once went to this informal thing he held through Cornell’s Asian American Studies Program and he talked about the intersection of race and politics and how that informed where he chose to run. (This talk over pizza was held a month before he started running for Congress.) He said that he wasn’t willing to compromise his beliefs in order to get elected, so the only place where a POC as liberal as him can get elected on the East Coast is upstate New York (read: the area of Ithaca/Tompkins County, where Cornell is). He talked about the interesting demographics of upstate New York: most of upstate New York is populated by ethnic whites who discriminated when they came to the U.S., and upstate New York is one of the few rural areas that goes Democrat. However, in pockets of upstate New York where POC have moved in, within ten years those areas go Republican. 

You learn something new everyday. 

Did you know that the idea of birthright citizenship in the U.S. was solidified by United States v. Wong Kim Ark?

I’m always stunned by what fails to make the history books as important information that everyone should know (usually because it’s about people who are not rich white men). Props to Wikipedia for making it today’s featured article.

I wonder where the futures of the Latino and Asian/Asian-American communities lie. Asian/Asian-Americans are still treated as perpetual foreigners despite our long history in America, and the U.S. has tried many times to boot us out…much as they are trying with the Latino community now. (United States v. Wong Kim Ark is under fresh scrutiny due to current politics.) I read somewhere that prior to the 1960s, Latinos were stereotyped as the model minority while Asian/Asian-Americans were stereotyped as the poor, grubby laundryworkers and manual laborers. It’s funny how these threads intertwine…

I think I just found my new dance obsession. Love all these Asian American artists. 

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