Current Events > Why are people mad at Asians?

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Is it cause we have to wear masks now like in Asia?

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repressed racism

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I read in my psychology textbook that during the Rodney King riots the areas with the highest concentration of Asian immigrants suffered the most damage. They theorized it was because they were furthest from the cultural norm, thus the most defenseless.

My guess is that it is just weak minded people preying on the most defenseless people they can.

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We had a president who was constantly referring to the pandemic as The China Virus. Probably didnt help.

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It doesn't make any sense. Even if "China" manufactured the virus, that wouldn't mean that every Asian person was somehow in on it. I know hate isn't logical, but where do people get off thinking they're justified in attacking old women and men?

Power dynamics. All fairly quickly as well. Asians are going to be the new black people.

FortuneCookie posted...

It doesn't make any sense. Even if "China" manufactured the virus, that wouldn't mean that every Asian person was somehow in on it. I know hate isn't logical, but where do people get off thinking they're justified in attacking old women and men?

You haven't factored in how stupid people are. Because they are so very fucking stupid.

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Mutual resentment between asians and blacks on the west coast isn't exacly new tbh

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FortuneCookie posted...

It doesn't make any sense. Even if "China" manufactured the virus, that wouldn't mean that every Asian person was somehow in on it. I know hate isn't logical, but where do people get off thinking they're justified in attacking old women and men?

Youre really underestimating how stupid and illogical racists are.

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Crescente posted...

Power dynamics. All fairly quickly as well. Asians are going to be the new black people.

haha no that won't happen

Because people are very stupid and more importantly, very scared.

Because they're dumbasses who think that Covid19 was their fault. It doesn't help that we had a dumbass president who basically called it the China virus which made Asians an easy target for hate because we all know that every Asian is Chinese

FortuneCookie posted...

It doesn't make any sense. Even if "China" manufactured the virus, that wouldn't mean that every Asian person was somehow in on it. I know hate isn't logical, but where do people get off thinking they're justified in attacking old women and men?

People are fucking dumb. Same reason you saw a significant uptick in violence against people who looked Arabic after 9/11

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Solid Snake07 posted...

Mutual resentment between asians and blacks on the west coast isn't exacly new tbh

This. Been going on forever. I knew a black dude who's wife family disowned her because she married him.

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Solid Snake07 posted...

People are fucking dumb. Same reason you saw a significant uptick in violence against people who looked Arabic after 9/11

This. Also more proof people are stupid is they make similar topics asking the same question multiple times a day.

Yeah all the asian hate is due to the corona virus. Since its been documented as beginning in China and then spreading to other countries. Some people are truly just racist and are gonna hate asians for that fact alone. While others may have lost a loved one from the virus and they don't know who else to lash out against with their anger. So they just become illogical and see any asian person as Chinese and from china. Its not.fair that so many Asian Americans are getting killed or abused due to China. They are over here in our country and not a part of the chinese communist party government

Dakimakura posted...

I read in my psychology textbook that during the Rodney King riots the areas with the highest concentration of Asian immigrants suffered the most damage. They theorized it was because they were furthest from the cultural norm, thus the most defenseless.

My guess is that it is just weak minded people preying on the most defenseless people they can.

A Korean shop owner killed a 15 year old girl over a bottle of orange juice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Latasha_Harlins

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I still like asians especially the girls, I never hated asians

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Dakimakura posted...

I read in my psychology textbook that during the Rodney King riots the areas with the highest concentration of Asian immigrants suffered the most damage. They theorized it was because they were furthest from the cultural norm, thus the most defenseless.

My guess is that it is just weak minded people preying on the most defenseless people they can.

An event that was definitely significant in the racial tension that had be wrenched up in LA in the early 90s that isn't talked about nearly as much as rodney king was the acquittal of a korean convenience store owner shooting and killing a black teenage girl

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People gotta go back 30 yrs to find an Asian on black crime

BigB0ss13 posted...

People gotta go back 30 yrs to find an Asian on black crime

It wasn't just about that one crime either. A lot of the businesses in poor black neiborhoods that were seen as exploitative, like liquor stores, were often owned and operated by asian immigrants. And on the flip side stores in these neiborhoods are constantly having to deal with petty theft. Not exacly hard to see where built of resentment on both sides is stemming from.

I'm sure you've seen at least one movie that pushed the "you touch you buy" asian business owner stereotype.

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The general environment helps stokes it: the painting of the pandemic as China's fault(intentional or otherwise) and the climate of anti-Chinese sabre-rattling(basically resurrecting old '20s-'30s and '90s "Yellow Peril" fearmongering, just directed at China instead of Japan) help to contribute, but the truth is also that this country has a very long and sordid history of anti-Asian racism which can be traced back to the 1875 Paige Act (which banned basically all Asian women from immigrating, based on the stereotype of Asian women as sexually-deviant prostitutes that was referenced in the recent mass shooting targeted at Asian women) and, of course, Japanese American internment during WW2 (despite there being no evidence of much pro-Imperial Japan sentiment among them).

The myth of Asians as the "model minority" also helps to breed resentment, as Asians are actually more successful relative to other minority groups and are thus more visible in positions of power relative to their total population(and thus the targets of resentment for white men who feel they are entitled to those positions).