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[–]OuroborosTheory 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

iirc they were more Filipino and Dominican and only one East Asian (deculturated, of course)

ah, here's the photo of Japanese women literally trying to talk sense into the monolinguals too young to drink https://www.evilenglish.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/kimonowednesday_02.jpg

"it's literally killing us!" got old after a while

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Lol that sign. Someone skipped out on slogan writing class.

Help help the kimono is killing me help! I'm like superman except instead of green rocks I'm allergic to the sight of the ubermensch demeaning himself by wearing a Qi Pao oh the humanity the indignity will someone please stop those white people from belittling themselves by stooping to wear the immoral clothing of the unchristian savages!

[–]OuroborosTheory 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

and they always talk like there's a yellowface revue at every community theater or school pageant, or like "AAPIs" aren't on average better off than HUWITE MALES--but sometime back in 1903 there was a popular yellowface show! and violent discrimination! people who looked like you did bad things to people who looked like me! I now have full moral license because I took a worthless major in rude chromolithos from the Victorian Era!

it reminds me of how Radovan Karadžić would hypnotize his patients until they "recovered" an ancestral memory of being an oppressed Serb, and that's why they needed a country of their own with nobody else--left: here history's just a pile of past junk to be ransacked to support present-day standards (which, as we all know, are eternal), and not a way of understanding how people used to understand their world

"anti-antifragile" is a good way of putting it, like that Twitterer who went on and on about how Cuphead had no racial stereotypes but she spent the whole game fearing a jumpscare by one because the 20s and 30s cartoons had racial stereotypes

they came up with the "prejudice pyramid" (the one with "unintentional offense" at the bottom and "extermination camps" at the top) to pump up the hair-tearing emotionalism (of course) but also as cope: they can't stop minorities the minoritized global majority from being screwed by the imprisonment system or LGBTQ2IAAP+ marginalized genders from being screwed by mortgage fraud or whatever, but they can go after Uncle Ben's Rice or get a land acknowledgement (and, when that doesn't solve everything, complain about the tokenism of that move and come in with a NEW demand that they certainly won't reject once it's actually conceded to them THIS time!)

this all seemed new and even revolutionary in like 2015, but after a decade we've "got their number," these campus "activists" have become HR drones or "radical knitters," everyone hates the radfems and Robin DiAngelo: even the contradictions have become potted ("#BelieveAllWomen and suspend jury trials for certain crimes but also free the falsely accused?" "do mixed-race people have privilege?") and all they can do is baww about "sealioning" because they can't admit that two "Good" categories can have contradictory

and all they've gotten for their antics is some Corporate Memphis posters about how Black people can't be expected to show up or talk proper or that the Eeloleelo tribe has a gender that only existed among 2010s art students, and the same pasty-white gerontocracy they thought would vanish like smoke

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

It's funny how you can understand exactly what's happening just by seeing this photo

[–]OuroborosTheory 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

the worst thing is that the museum caved after even that--that's probably the worst part, not that they bent the knee to some 20yo tyrant tots who had just learned about a topic, but that they bent the knee AFTER lifelong actual Japanese/American kimono experts said the protest was more offensive than anything whitey could be doing while wearing one

if these niche ideologies didn't have panicked "grownups" who had some power catering to them in the press, universities, book publishing, HR departments, etc. people could at least argue there might be other ways to interpret the world: now everyone looks like they're going along, but everyone's also just PRETENDING

I even remember the slacktivists saying it didn't matter what people in Japan or first-generation immigrants felt about the culture they knew, because it was up to Asian-studies "experts" in the American context to decide

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The whole thing was utterly retarded. I remember back at the time having a good laugh about all the racist Japanese people in Japan who wear business suits. How dare they appropriate western clothing! Of course you'd get some dumbass claiming it was different because oppression or something, which is pretty damn funny that they somehow snoozed through history class.

Personally I think these sorts of attitudes border on "dangerously racist" since the very idea that the clothing one may wear is determined by their race seems adjacent to the idea that one must wear certain clothing based on their race, which if you can see the connection congratulations, you get a gold star! And a free trip to study camp!

[–]OuroborosTheory 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

it's like the Smithsonian disaster where they put out a flyer literally saying Black people can't be expected to speak correctly or show up on time or be educated

but they're on the side of Good, so they wouldn't support something that wasn't!

that's also why they flip so quickly on everything: you'd be fired or expelled if you didn't click a little box saying "Robin DiAngelo is right about everything, and I certify that I am a racist who can never really interact with Black people and not just clicking this box ti keep my job/degree" or "nobody gets accused of rape for no reason, as a penis-bearing monster I certify that I am already guilty"; a month later they're condemning everything they made mandatory