The article is also very good, provocative title aside. Canadian and US politicians, and pretty much every article from the BBC or NYT have brought out every orientalist trope they can think of, and accused chinese ppl of having ingrained negative traits. Seems strange that many people are coming to defend the orientalists.
Hate to have to say it, especially on Lemmygrad where I really hoped it wouldn’t need to be said… but I guess because this is a website that’s mostly used in the Anglo-sphere it makes sense.
White people gonna do white people things. My grandfather’s hatred for the English in Ireland prepared me to critically support the cries of the oppressed like this, but it seems some people here either don’t have echos of oppression in their bloodline, or are too far removed from it to know how to hone in on what’s important when non-whites call out whites. This issue is very common on the western left when Non-Cis-Hetero-Whites try to use provocative speech to pull attention to the systematic oppression that benefits Cis-Hetero-Whites.
People who are reading these comments and thinking “how dare this Chinese author say white people are bad” should probably put down the phone/computer for a few minutes and read theorists of colour and self-reflect on why your position isn’t the right one. This, that some of y’all are doing, is the tone policing of the white moderate. Leave that shit on reddit.
Yeah I find it strange that so many ears perked up at the possibility of racism towards anglo-saxons.
The article is also very good, provocative title aside. Canadian and US politicians, and pretty much every article from the BBC or NYT have brought out every orientalist trope they can think of, and accused chinese ppl of having ingrained negative traits. Seems strange that many people are coming to defend the orientalists.
Western media are definitely guilty of treating cultural and societal issues of Asians like they’re inherited traits that can’t ever change.
Hate to have to say it, especially on Lemmygrad where I really hoped it wouldn’t need to be said… but I guess because this is a website that’s mostly used in the Anglo-sphere it makes sense.
White people gonna do white people things. My grandfather’s hatred for the English in Ireland prepared me to critically support the cries of the oppressed like this, but it seems some people here either don’t have echos of oppression in their bloodline, or are too far removed from it to know how to hone in on what’s important when non-whites call out whites. This issue is very common on the western left when Non-Cis-Hetero-Whites try to use provocative speech to pull attention to the systematic oppression that benefits Cis-Hetero-Whites.
People who are reading these comments and thinking “how dare this Chinese author say white people are bad” should probably put down the phone/computer for a few minutes and read theorists of colour and self-reflect on why your position isn’t the right one. This, that some of y’all are doing, is the tone policing of the white moderate. Leave that shit on reddit.