Those people that Hate with a capital H do so because they feel their lives are useless and they probably are, so they have to blame someone. Little dick aka tRump gave them someone to blame. It's the non white peoples fault. So they will ride that train until it's derailed and they are splattered all over the side of that mountainous blob America calls it's prez. Of course when they have absolutely nothing left they still won't blame him for the country running up the largest debt in history or the fact that the departments they relied on are gone. Racism and greed are definitely the two enduring sins of rampant capitalism where nobody but the already wealthy get richer. Yet you will never hear them complain about that because it's in their DNA to deny deny deny! Besides the brainwashing that been done is irreversible I fear. You are just going to have to wait until they go the way of the dodo. Possibly another 1/4 century!
I never mastered all the scientific declensions of life on earth. I took only one biology course during my years of education but It is my impression that the term "race" does not appear in the nomenclature of life. So to use race as a discriminating name for minor variations in the human species is an irritant that rankles. So our lineage works like this Kingdom - Animalia, Phylum - Chordata (spinal column) - Class, Mammalia - Order, Primates - Family, Hominidae (great apes) - Genus, homo (humans) - Species, Sapiens.
It seems that interbreeding may have occurred within/between the species of Sapiens and other members of the genus, homo. Some species may have died out, others may have interbred with sapiens and over time contributed to the genome of modern humans. So much is missing from the evolutionary record of homo and sapiens only vague estimates of when/where, between which species combined to result in modern humans. Interbreeding is generally only possible between individuals with similar genomes, and the tolerable degrees of difference may vary within the Family category or later in the evolution. The salient point among humans is that we CAN and do interbreed, and race ( a social construct) has no bearing on our mutual humanity.
Race equates with tribalism an early form of human organization. Tribalism still exists and is the term we should use in preference to race. The Nation/state formation is so recent as to be almost within living memory Certainly within the evolution of distinct languages. Language is now the greatest barrier between people. With any luck effective translation apps may help to dissolve some of those barriers. A fitting evolutionary service for AI.
I'm from Norway and during WW2, Norway was occupied. I learned about it when I was young in elementary school and when I came home I had questions. We have many German tourists in Norway. And I asked my father (that was born in 1945) "Does that mean we hate Germans? And he said no, even during WW2, most Germans were conscripted, fighting and killing was not something they wanted. They weren't hostile towards the locals. But the German tourists I met were the sons and daughters, grandchildren etc of those soldiers. They were not at fault for what their family did. I feel that through asking those questions and getting that answer and understanding that there is not simply "good guys" and "bad guys" . I think that is one of the most important life lessons I've learned.
I think of all the wonderful things Asian and South Asian people have given to the world, especially the U.K. and the U.S. The cuisines and the music are just two of these. Culture, art and fashion are other gifts we have been given and I rejoice in them all. But we shouldn’t leave out the people of the African and South American continents who have also enriched us all despite being colonized and treated with unforgivable cruelty.
Equality will not be realized until we physically remove the criminal scum from the White House, from totally controlling the media, from the bench of SCOTUS and by taxing the multi billionaires out of existence!
We have seen a number of elections that should have gone to good Democrats sabotaged over the years. From Henry Wallace on the VP ticket with FDR, replaced by Truman, to Al Gore winning electoral votes & popular votes but cheated from victory by SCOTUS on and on. This all should have ended with the Al Gore presidency that never got to be. We must end the cheating if we want to hear what the majority want in this country! Not what the Fascists want!!
It is not just politicians, but also major media which promote and accentuates such hatred. The venerable NYT has gone out of its way to find ways to criticize China even in articles which was not primarily related to China. It feels like a campaign to vilify an enemy.
Where I live, the Asian community is plagued by an open drug market. The people who live in the community aren't the customers or sellers. The police keep moving the drug market there. The businesses suffer. The people spend an inordinate amount of time trying to get help from the city. It improves, and we elected a progressive mayor who seems intent upon helping the root causes of the drug problem.
Unclear what you are saying. Do you mean police cracks down on drug
Activities in other neighborhoods which drives the market into your neighborhood? If so, you have power via your city council reps to pressure the police to enforce laws in your neighborhood. Mayor are often not involved at neighborhood level issues,
Yes the police drive the drug traffic to the neighborhood. Our city council deals mainly with ordinances. The mayor has more power to direct police to different areas. The city council of course weighs in.
Our new mayor is committed to solving some of the root causes of our drug problem. It's been very difficult for the Asian community for a long time.
Ever since the Chinese Exclusion acts America has defined itself by being anti Asian. I'm talking of the government, not the people but the white majority picked that government. Seeing how Trump treated our Afghani allies was because of racism. The Republicans want America to be a whites only nation. The Supreme Court thinks anybody who isn't white can be a subject maybe they can be gifted citizenship.
It's unfortunate some people believe Asian people don't face discrimination but the world is full of people acting atrociously because of their unfortunate beliefs.
I don't think there's a we there. That's not something I'm for that shittiness belongs to the people in government. That evil was imposed on me by some of the voters.
We just need to live by what we believe. Some of people here have always been here though even before Europeans arrived.
I was born in the early 1950s. I don’t remember much anti-Asian sentiment until my family moved from Michigan to Kansas City in the mid sixties. Then, wow! The hatred for Asian people was off the charts, particularly the Japanese, though all Asians were included under the “They all look alike to me” doctrine beloved by white supremacists. It wasn’t as overt as anti-Black bigotry, but was just as virulent and malicious.
I always chalked it up to the idea you never hate anybody quite as much as the people you’ve done wrong.
I guess I have my own bias about Asians as a whole. I see them as high achievers, serious citizens and accomplished leaders and authors of note. Certainly not a group that I would like to lose as American citizens!
There's a 'model minority' myth that's been espoused about Asians. In reality the Asian American community has the same struggles of wealth and income inequality as every community in the United States.
Amazing that I'm still not beyond being astonished. That Trump is not called on the carpet before Congress to account for the many times he has blatantly said we do not want immigrants from Brown and Black countries here--WHITES only--has got to be a testament to the accepted attitude of the United States of America. It would seem to me you cannot be President of these United States and say that. But here we are. Makes it pretty impossible for me to feel...patriotic??
Thank you for reporting this. I was unaware. This is so unacceptable. What a myth American exceptionalism is! It appears, sadly, that the USA is exceptional at hate.
Wow--you hit the nail right on the head with that last statement. It seems that the coming society of robots would be optimal for the US--a country of identical klangers!! How depressing.
Those people that Hate with a capital H do so because they feel their lives are useless and they probably are, so they have to blame someone. Little dick aka tRump gave them someone to blame. It's the non white peoples fault. So they will ride that train until it's derailed and they are splattered all over the side of that mountainous blob America calls it's prez. Of course when they have absolutely nothing left they still won't blame him for the country running up the largest debt in history or the fact that the departments they relied on are gone. Racism and greed are definitely the two enduring sins of rampant capitalism where nobody but the already wealthy get richer. Yet you will never hear them complain about that because it's in their DNA to deny deny deny! Besides the brainwashing that been done is irreversible I fear. You are just going to have to wait until they go the way of the dodo. Possibly another 1/4 century!
I never mastered all the scientific declensions of life on earth. I took only one biology course during my years of education but It is my impression that the term "race" does not appear in the nomenclature of life. So to use race as a discriminating name for minor variations in the human species is an irritant that rankles. So our lineage works like this Kingdom - Animalia, Phylum - Chordata (spinal column) - Class, Mammalia - Order, Primates - Family, Hominidae (great apes) - Genus, homo (humans) - Species, Sapiens.
It seems that interbreeding may have occurred within/between the species of Sapiens and other members of the genus, homo. Some species may have died out, others may have interbred with sapiens and over time contributed to the genome of modern humans. So much is missing from the evolutionary record of homo and sapiens only vague estimates of when/where, between which species combined to result in modern humans. Interbreeding is generally only possible between individuals with similar genomes, and the tolerable degrees of difference may vary within the Family category or later in the evolution. The salient point among humans is that we CAN and do interbreed, and race ( a social construct) has no bearing on our mutual humanity.
Race equates with tribalism an early form of human organization. Tribalism still exists and is the term we should use in preference to race. The Nation/state formation is so recent as to be almost within living memory Certainly within the evolution of distinct languages. Language is now the greatest barrier between people. With any luck effective translation apps may help to dissolve some of those barriers. A fitting evolutionary service for AI.
Thank you for posting this important article. Discrimination and bigotry against Asian Americans has never gotten the attention it deserves.
I'm from Norway and during WW2, Norway was occupied. I learned about it when I was young in elementary school and when I came home I had questions. We have many German tourists in Norway. And I asked my father (that was born in 1945) "Does that mean we hate Germans? And he said no, even during WW2, most Germans were conscripted, fighting and killing was not something they wanted. They weren't hostile towards the locals. But the German tourists I met were the sons and daughters, grandchildren etc of those soldiers. They were not at fault for what their family did. I feel that through asking those questions and getting that answer and understanding that there is not simply "good guys" and "bad guys" . I think that is one of the most important life lessons I've learned.
I think of all the wonderful things Asian and South Asian people have given to the world, especially the U.K. and the U.S. The cuisines and the music are just two of these. Culture, art and fashion are other gifts we have been given and I rejoice in them all. But we shouldn’t leave out the people of the African and South American continents who have also enriched us all despite being colonized and treated with unforgivable cruelty.
Equality will not be realized until we physically remove the criminal scum from the White House, from totally controlling the media, from the bench of SCOTUS and by taxing the multi billionaires out of existence!
Agreed
We have seen a number of elections that should have gone to good Democrats sabotaged over the years. From Henry Wallace on the VP ticket with FDR, replaced by Truman, to Al Gore winning electoral votes & popular votes but cheated from victory by SCOTUS on and on. This all should have ended with the Al Gore presidency that never got to be. We must end the cheating if we want to hear what the majority want in this country! Not what the Fascists want!!
It is not just politicians, but also major media which promote and accentuates such hatred. The venerable NYT has gone out of its way to find ways to criticize China even in articles which was not primarily related to China. It feels like a campaign to vilify an enemy.
Where I live, the Asian community is plagued by an open drug market. The people who live in the community aren't the customers or sellers. The police keep moving the drug market there. The businesses suffer. The people spend an inordinate amount of time trying to get help from the city. It improves, and we elected a progressive mayor who seems intent upon helping the root causes of the drug problem.
It is clearly racism.
Unclear what you are saying. Do you mean police cracks down on drug
Activities in other neighborhoods which drives the market into your neighborhood? If so, you have power via your city council reps to pressure the police to enforce laws in your neighborhood. Mayor are often not involved at neighborhood level issues,
Yes the police drive the drug traffic to the neighborhood. Our city council deals mainly with ordinances. The mayor has more power to direct police to different areas. The city council of course weighs in.
Our new mayor is committed to solving some of the root causes of our drug problem. It's been very difficult for the Asian community for a long time.
Ever since the Chinese Exclusion acts America has defined itself by being anti Asian. I'm talking of the government, not the people but the white majority picked that government. Seeing how Trump treated our Afghani allies was because of racism. The Republicans want America to be a whites only nation. The Supreme Court thinks anybody who isn't white can be a subject maybe they can be gifted citizenship.
It's unfortunate some people believe Asian people don't face discrimination but the world is full of people acting atrociously because of their unfortunate beliefs.
That's absolutely horrendous, America is for everyone, not just white people.
I agree with you Jessica unfortunately the people in government and plurality of voters don't think so.
Even so, we shouldn't be treating people like trash just for not being white.
Not to mention the everyone here is a descendant of an immigrant.
I don't think there's a we there. That's not something I'm for that shittiness belongs to the people in government. That evil was imposed on me by some of the voters.
We just need to live by what we believe. Some of people here have always been here though even before Europeans arrived.
You get the idea
I was born in the early 1950s. I don’t remember much anti-Asian sentiment until my family moved from Michigan to Kansas City in the mid sixties. Then, wow! The hatred for Asian people was off the charts, particularly the Japanese, though all Asians were included under the “They all look alike to me” doctrine beloved by white supremacists. It wasn’t as overt as anti-Black bigotry, but was just as virulent and malicious.
I always chalked it up to the idea you never hate anybody quite as much as the people you’ve done wrong.
Thank you for your continued teaching. ✌🏻
Thank you for this piece. I also saw this piece from ACLU Wisconsin earlier today.
https://www.aclu-wi.org/news/racial-profiling-rampant-after-supreme-court-ruling/
I guess I have my own bias about Asians as a whole. I see them as high achievers, serious citizens and accomplished leaders and authors of note. Certainly not a group that I would like to lose as American citizens!
There's a 'model minority' myth that's been espoused about Asians. In reality the Asian American community has the same struggles of wealth and income inequality as every community in the United States.
Read your comment. It's racist.
Amazing that I'm still not beyond being astonished. That Trump is not called on the carpet before Congress to account for the many times he has blatantly said we do not want immigrants from Brown and Black countries here--WHITES only--has got to be a testament to the accepted attitude of the United States of America. It would seem to me you cannot be President of these United States and say that. But here we are. Makes it pretty impossible for me to feel...patriotic??
Thank you for reporting this. I was unaware. This is so unacceptable. What a myth American exceptionalism is! It appears, sadly, that the USA is exceptional at hate.
Wow--you hit the nail right on the head with that last statement. It seems that the coming society of robots would be optimal for the US--a country of identical klangers!! How depressing.