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In her most recent video, Contrapoints talks about people "just stating facts", saying that facts don't exist in a vacuum and that when you're stating facts, you're telling a story.
She is 100% correct.
She is 100% correct.
However, when you let people who are trying to spin a very particular narrative monopolize a pertinent fact, you run the risk of turning them into truth-tellers.
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1359315233379123203?s=20
This tweet is a perfect example of a person relinquishing pertinent facts to far right racists.
No, on average the people assaulting Asian-Americans in inner cities are not skinheads, not hood-wearing klansmen, not MAGA-hat yokels.
This tweet is a perfect example of a person relinquishing pertinent facts to far right racists.
No, on average the people assaulting Asian-Americans in inner cities are not skinheads, not hood-wearing klansmen, not MAGA-hat yokels.
It brings to mind a similar tweet by her squad-pal Rashida:
And then come inane takes like this one:
Shifting the onus for solving the problem towards the victims, because doing something to keep Asian-Americans safe from what is immediately threatening them is more racist than protecting them from hate crimes.
This is the same story we saw with Haredi Jews in NY and NJ.
Will bolstering policing solve the underlying issues behind these phenomena? No, but you can't expect marginalized communities to sit still and "take it" while they are being targeted by violent bigots. That the bigots in question are marginalized doesn't make it acceptable.
Nor does it help to tell the people who are being assaulted that the problem is AKsHualLy white supremacy. Theory isn't going to help them.
