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Wanted to vent today after a series of events.
I mean, my day was going well. Nothing bad in particular was happening, but all of a sudden I saw a tweet on my timeline, this one in particular. https://twitter.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1334510812552163328?s=20
I mean, my day was going well. Nothing bad in particular was happening, but all of a sudden I saw a tweet on my timeline, this one in particular. https://twitter.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1334510812552163328?s=20
Now, I usually don't care about things like this, but I also saw a recommended video about the Georgia election that noted that Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders are a sizable portion of the voting population.
The comments below were...terrible.
The comments below were...terrible.
Shit like "China virus", "The US was made for whites", stuff like that. And I don't know why it got under my skin because it usually doesn't...but it did this time around.
It's the first time that I've probably felt uncomfortable as an Asian living in the US.
It's the first time that I've probably felt uncomfortable as an Asian living in the US.
I was born and raised in the US. I was lucky enough to live in a community that was largely Asian and Latino (about 50/50 of both). Even traveling to different places in and out of the US, I've never really felt uncomfortable.
It saddens me to think that these people, who hate me so deeply without even knowing who I am, could live in the same country as me (and in the case of tweet 1, represent a state in the country that I live in).
This pandemic has reignited a sickening wave of sinophobia.
This pandemic has reignited a sickening wave of sinophobia.
