| | | Tenchu's Thoughts: Why is the Asian community under fire from Blacks? (A response to Bonefish)Can you explain why the Asian community is under fire from BLM and antifa? Let's first get one thing out of the way. I don't think Antifa has anything against the Asian community.
As for BLM, tensions between Blacks and Asians have been simmering for decades. Here's a brain dump of thoughts related to those tensions:
- Asians often set up shops like convenience stores in inner cities. They do this because, no joke, these are the jobs that white people won't do. Nor, it seems, black people want to do, either. (I often wonder why we don't see more Black-owned nail salons out there, for example, if Black women feel so "dissed" by Asian nail salon ladies.)
- Asians, especially first-generation immigrants, can be VERY racist toward Black people. That's because they come from nations that don't have much racial diversity, nor did they attend schools that teach about racism and what not. Hence their prejudices run deep, and all too often, Black people in urban areas confirm those prejudices.
- Many times Asian business owners don't feel any connection to the urban communities they serve. They open up stores in the inner cities so that their children don't have to, which is why they won't contribute to the Black community and will often just stay within their Asian enclaves. This isn't a given, however; I have seen more and more cooperation between Blacks and Asians over the past several decades, until the past two years when we have taken a few steps back.
- Asians are OFTEN considered "white adjacent." When even intellectuals from Ivy Leagues don't consider Asians to be racial minorities that "matter," the concerns of Asian-Americans often get brushed to the side. After all, we only represent 5.4% of all Americans, and our median incomes are higher than even Whites, so why should Asians get any sympathy whatsoever, much less any protection from anti-discrimination laws?
- Asians are not known to be fierce self-defenders. Despite the Bruce Lee stereotypes, we Asians are seen as easy prey to inner city thugs. And these thugs don't think like normal human beings do. They will racially profile their targets, and they will go after those who are (a) most likely to carry cash and designer accessories on them, and (b) are less likely to put up a fight. They want victims, not physical confrontations.
- Postmodern culture, especially the 1619 Project and that bullshit called Critical Race Theory, has conditioned Black people to think that America was built on their own backs, and that Asians are just riding along. It's gotten so bad that now, Black people think that they have invented everything (the "Wakanda syndrome," as I call it) and that Asians should GTFO of "their" country. Go ahead and click on that link.
- Finally, Asians are under fire from the Black community because quite frankly, the rest of America allows it to happen. It was only thanks to the efforts of a Hollywood celebrity, Daniel Dae Kim, that the issue of anti-Asian violence made it into the nation's conscience, but even then, the media seems much more interested in that white guy who shot up Asian-owned massage parlors than in the hundreds of black guys who assault Asians on a daily basis.
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