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In Reply to: RE: Per the previous discussion about this topic. . . posted by Chris from Lafayette on September 13, 2020 at 11:07:22
Asian history in this country vs that of blacks. The Civil War. Slavery. What Asians went through was indentured servitude, not the same--- and of VERY short duration. They weren't sold. Their labor was. They weren't beaten or raped or murdered. Their offspring weren't taken from them and sold. I won't go any further as apparently your views aren't shaped from any contact with African-Americans or any in depth reading.
Edits: 09/13/20Follow Ups:
. . . of some of the basic info in your own WAPO link. Granted, as with so many WAPO articles, it IS kind of weak in its speculative assertions from figures who owe their authority to their supposed academic standing. Or as the interviewee herself says, she's someone "who thinks about race in American life for a living". And these academics have all this "research" which may "suggest" certain things.
Nevertheless, there's some information in the article that I think we can agree on, and which you neglected to point out in your post. For instance,"In the mid- to late-19th century, all the way through the late 1940s and 1950s, Asians were thought of as "brown hordes" or as the "yellow peril." There was the sinister, weird, "Fu Manchu" stereotype."Or, starting around the 1870's,"Chinese newcomers. . . were an easy target for white American anxieties about the growth of industrial capitalism and the undermining of workers' autonomy and freedom. They believed that the Chinese threatened American independence and threatened American freedom"There were also populist parties in California who promoted slogans like, "The Chinese must go [back to China]!" Does that ring a bell - kind of like, the blacks must "go back to Africa"? In the 1880's, a number of "Chinese Exclusion Acts" were passed with aim of getting rid of this "yellow peril". And in the 1890's, there was even a Chinese registry law.
There's LOTS more history (which you ignored), but, to cut to the chase, you say, "They [Asians] weren't beaten, raped or murdered"? What planet do you live on? Of course they were beaten, raped and murdered. And then you accuse me of having "views aren't shaped from any contact with African-Americans or any in depth reading". Jeezuz, tin, you can be so naive! Project much? I notice that you don't have much to say about African Americans in the non-slave states. I also notice that you don't have very much to say about white soldiers in the northern army during the Civil War who gave their lives (yes, gave their lives )to help end slavery. It sounds to me like you read an article in the WAPO, and now you think you're a big expert. The irony!
I continue to be surprised and disappointed at how someone with such talent and intelligence could be so limited of mind as to find equivalencies between the Asian and Black experience in America.
Please reread tinear's post.
No doubt you will have some smart aleck response here.
They're in the historical record - perhaps you would do well to reread some history yourself.
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I was genuinely happy to see your return to the various forums (fora?) on this site after your six-year absence, especially since your new persona seemed so much kinder and gentler. But it now seems that you are back in your obnoxious "self-appointed expert on everything" mode (as was pointed out by another inmate on Central recently), and you can't help yourself from making snarky comments about inmates who disagree with you. Not a good look - nor was the "hit and run" nature of this last post of yours very impressive at all.Why don't you try returning to your kinder, gentler ways which characterized your first few weeks of posts after your "prodigal son" return? FWIW.
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