The frustrating thing in the states too, is that the point of view of Chinese and other Asian people are often excluded or disregarded from these cultural conversations and even activist circles because the conversation about race is so often binary between Black and White struggles. Because of our “model minority” status, other marginalized groups just see us as off-brand Whites that are aiming to control everything (not to mention the working-class and militant Asian history in America is completely left out of our education system). Even in so-called progressive spaces dominated by Black voices will these conspiratorial takes on Chinese spies and CCP “elites” pop up. It’s depressing as fuck and tempers a lot of my hope in the American socialist movements. It’s not even just the “White Settler Left” which gets called out all the time for this shit. It’s the Western Left in general, across all racial/identity lines, that has this problem that needs to be ruthlessly struggled against.
Gonna be completely honest, as an Asian it just makes me feel like I’ll need to gtfo of this country soon because the scapegoating isn’t just coming from the mainstream fascist right. I’ve heard it from people who should be my goddamn comrades.
Even apart from white chauvinism, people seem to be buying into western chauvinism in general, and from there it’s not a long road to this kind of sinophobia and anti-Asian racism.
The frustrating thing in the states too, is that the point of view of Chinese and other Asian people are often excluded or disregarded from these cultural conversations and even activist circles because the conversation about race is so often binary between Black and White struggles. Because of our “model minority” status, other marginalized groups just see us as off-brand Whites that are aiming to control everything (not to mention the working-class and militant Asian history in America is completely left out of our education system). Even in so-called progressive spaces dominated by Black voices will these conspiratorial takes on Chinese spies and CCP “elites” pop up. It’s depressing as fuck and tempers a lot of my hope in the American socialist movements. It’s not even just the “White Settler Left” which gets called out all the time for this shit. It’s the Western Left in general, across all racial/identity lines, that has this problem that needs to be ruthlessly struggled against.
Gonna be completely honest, as an Asian it just makes me feel like I’ll need to gtfo of this country soon because the scapegoating isn’t just coming from the mainstream fascist right. I’ve heard it from people who should be my goddamn comrades.
Even apart from white chauvinism, people seem to be buying into western chauvinism in general, and from there it’s not a long road to this kind of sinophobia and anti-Asian racism.