Anti-Asian Racism

[Albert Di Salvo]

There is a problem with racism directed against East Asians. Instances of this racism manifest themselves all the time throughout America and on this forum.

It's gotten me thinking about the long history of racism in America against East Asians. Some Americans are flat out racist against East Asians, and some are simply not sensitive to this invidious form of racism. I think it would be useful to explore the history of the Asian American experience, Asian American identity, the ways in which racism is expressed both individually and institutionally, and to examine the prospects for increased anti-Asian racism as America declines and Asian powers rise.

Let's start here:



"Asians have been in the U.S. for a long time. The history of Asians in the U.S. is the history of dreams, hard work, prejudice, discrimination, persistence, and triumph.



Manila Village, USA
As presented in the excellent PBS documentary series Ancestors in the Americas, the first Asians to come to the western hemisphere were Chinese Filipinos who settled in Mexico. Eventually, Filipino sailors were the first to settle in the U.S. around 1750 in what would later be Louisiana. Later around 1840, to make up for the shortage of slaves from Africa, the British and Spanish brought over slaves or "coolies" from China, India, and the Philippines to islands in the Caribbean, Peru, Ecuador, and other countries in South America.


However, the first large-scale immigration of Asians into the U.S. didn't happen until 1848. Around that time and as you may remember from your history classes, gold was discovered in America. Lured by tales and dreams of making it rich on "Gold Mountain" (which became the Chinese nickname for California), The Gold Rush was one of the pull factors that led many Chinese to come to the U.S. to find their fortune and return home rich and wealthy.

Most of these early Chinese workers were from the Guangdong (also called Canton) province in China. However, there were also push factors that drove many to want to leave China. The most important factor was economic hardship due to the growing British dominance over China, after Britain defeated China in the Opium War of 1839-1842."

The First Asian Americans : Asian-Nation :: Asian American History, Demographics, & Issues

 

[spud_meister]

So why are people racist against East Asians, but not West Asians?

 

[Albert Di Salvo]

Spud,

Vincent Chin was murdered for being Asian. Let me tell you the story of his murder. Then perhaps you will stop thinking anti-Asian racism is a matter for jest.



License to Commit Murder = $3,700

Perhaps the most graphic and shocking incident that illustrates this process was the murder of Vincent Chin in 1982. Vincent was beaten to death by two White men (Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz) who called him a "jap" (even though he was Chinese American) and blamed him and Japanese automakers for the current recession and the fact that they were about to lose their jobs. After a brief scuffle inside a local bar/night club, Vincent tried to run for his life until he was cornered nearby, held down by Nitz while Ebens repeatedly smashed his skull and bludgeoned him to death with a baseball bat.

The equally tragic part of this murder were how Vincent's murderers were handled by the criminal justice system. First, instead of being put on trial for second degree murder (intentionally killing someone but without premeditation), the prosecutor instead negotiated a plea bargain for reduced charges of manslaughter (accidentally killing someone). Second, the judge in the case sentenced each man to only two years probation and a $3,700 fine -- absolutely no jail time at all.

Anti-Asian Racism & Violence : Asian-Nation :: Asian American History, Demographics, & Issues

 

[spud_meister]

Congrats, you found a story from 30 years ago. Now I want you to prove your statement of "Instances of this racism manifest themselves all the time throughout America", so all you need do is compile a list of race motivated attacks against East Asians (can't be Tibetans, or people from western China, has to be from east Asia) that proves that they happen "all the time" and also to prove these attacks occur "throughout America", sad as that story is, it is but one case in one area, and does nothing to prove your statement.

 

[Albert Di Salvo]

Congrats, you found a story from 30 years ago. Now I want you to prove your statement of "Instances of this racism manifest themselves all the time throughout America", so all you need do is compile a list of race motivated attacks against East Asians (can't be Tibetans, or people from western China, has to be from east Asia) that proves that they happen "all the time" and also to prove these attacks occur "throughout America", sad as that story is, it is but one case in one area, and does nothing to prove your statement.

The Definition of Cruel and Unusual Punishment

The recent case of Wen Ho Lee further symbolizes not just how authorities can be not just insensitive to Asian Americans but also outright hostile to us as well. Dr. Lee was working as a research scientist at the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory on military missile systems. In the midst of national hysteria about nuclear secrets being passed onto China in 1999, Dr. Lee was arrested and charged with 59 counts of mishandling classified information.

His arrest was one thing. But again, the most outrageous part of the story was how he was subsequently treated by the "criminal justice" system. Dr. Lee was denied bail, kept in solitary confinement, and forced to wear leg shackles and chains for nine months. Keep in mind that he was never charge with espionage -- just mishandling classified documents. All the while, the U.S. Justice Department struggled to build a case against him.

Finally, in September 2000, just two days before they were forced to produce documents to support their case against him, the government dropped all but one of those 59 charges against him. This was also after everyone learned that an FBI agent provided false testimony about Dr. Lee in the initial investigation. Dr. Lee was finally released after pleading guilty to one count of mishandling computer data. At his release hearing, the presiding judge in the case took the unprecedented step of apologizing to Dr. Lee:

I sincerely apologize to you, Doctor Lee, for the unfair manner in which you were held in custody by the executive branch. They have embarrassed our entire nation and each of us who is a citizen of it.


The world-renowned New York Times also issued an official apology to its readers regarding its coverage of Dr. Lee's situation. The Times admitted that they did not do the proper research and factfinding when they first investigated the story and that they were wrong in presuming Dr. Lee was guilty and wrong for helping to convict him in the court of media sensationalism and public opinion. Finally, in August 2001, the Justice Department released a report that criticized the Energy Department for providing inaccurate, incomplete, and misleading information to the FBI and the FBI for failing to investigate and verify that information in its case against Wen Ho Lee.

Dr. Lee's case is yet another example of government-sanctioned scapegoating and racial profiling -- singling out someone to take the blame for some overexagerated problem just because of his/her race or ethnicity. Sadly, it is a continuation of a pattern of anti-Asian racism that continues to target our community, based again on the two predominant stereotypes against us -- that we're all the same and that we're all foreigners and therefore, not American.

Anti-Asian Racism & Violence : Asian-Nation :: Asian American History, Demographics, & Issues

 

[Albert Di Salvo]

Here's another article about anti-Asian racism that might interest you Spud:



Racial Bullying Roils a Philadelphia High School
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By Patrick Walters
The Associated Press
January 21, 2010



PHILADELPHIA -- The blocks surrounding South Philadelphia High School are a melting pot of pizzerias fronted by Italian flags, African hair-braiding salons and a growing number of Chinese, Vietnamese and Indonesian restaurants.

Inside is a cauldron of cultural discontent that erupted in violence last month - off-campus and lunchroom attacks on about 50 Asian students, injuring 30, primarily at the hands of blacks. The Asian students, who boycotted classes for more than a week afterward, say they've endured relentless bullying by black students while school officials turned a blind eye to their complaints.

"We have suffered a lot to get to America and we didn't come here to fight," Wei Chen, president of the Chinese American Student Association, told the school board in one of several hearings on the violence. "We just want a safe environment to learn and make more friends. That's my dream."

Philadelphia school officials suspended 10 students, increased police patrols and installed dozens of new security cameras to watch the halls, where 70 percent of the students are black and 18 percent Asian. The Vietnamese embassy complained to the U.S. State Department about the attacks and numerous groups are investigating, including the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission.

The New York-based Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund joined the fray this week with a civil rights complaint to the U.S. Justice Department.

The Philadelphia school district acted with "deliberate indifference" toward the harassment and failed to prevent the Dec. 3 attacks, according to the complaint. It says Asian students' pleas for help and protection were ignored by school employees.

Asian students say black students routinely pelt them with food, beat, punch and kick ...Continue at:

Racial Bullying Roils a Philadelphia High School

 

[spud_meister]

So that's two cases of racism, and one case of mistreating a bloke for visiting China too often. Keep it up.

 

[Albert Di Salvo]

Congrats, you found a story from 30 years ago. Now I want you to prove your statement of "Instances of this racism manifest themselves all the time throughout America", so all you need do is compile a list of race motivated attacks against East Asians (can't be Tibetans, or people from western China, has to be from east Asia) that proves that they happen "all the time" and also to prove these attacks occur "throughout America", sad as that story is, it is but one case in one area, and does nothing to prove your statement.

Spud,

Australia has a long history of anti-Asian violence as well. Check this out and please let me know what you think about Australian racism against East Asians. Thanks.


"Lambing Flat massacre

Australia's experience with the Chinese on the goldfields probably established the pattern of discriminatory practice towards Chinese in particular and Asians in general. Early Asian immigrants in Australia generally took jobs unwanted by Europeans such as railway workers, shepherds on new land, fruit pickers and clearing bushland. By the early 19th century, with 24,000 Chinese immigrants in Australia there was a perception about Australia being 'overrun'. More particularly, Chinese miners were a perceived threat to the Australian economy. The discovery of gold in Australia and a subsequent Gold Rush saw a boom of Asian immigrants against extreme difficulties posed by white settlers such as the Poll Taxes of ten pounds in Victorian ports and widespread anti-Chinese violence.

In 1857, just before the outbreak of a major anti-Chinese riot on Victoria's Buckland River goldfield, Henry Parkes, best known as the 'Father of Federation' and owner of the Empire newspaper, railed against the 'unnatural vices and practices' that supposedly prevailed in China. In June 1861, just before another anti-Chinese riot at the Lambing Flat goldfield (near Young, in New South Wales), the Empire warned that:

‘ ... there is a good deal of the animal about the Chinaman ... the white population is becoming demoralised by the presence of hordes of idolatrist barbarians, destitute of religion and morality, as well as every social virtue which makes us proud of our Anglo-Saxon race and institutions.[1] ’

The bloody riots at Lambing Flat in the 1860s were an indication of the depth of feeling aroused. The miners had accused the Chinese diggers of 'stealing' their gold and taking their land. The massacre marked the beginning of institutionalised anti-Asian racism in Australia. The Lambing Flat massacre (or Lambing Flat riots), were a series of violent anti-Chinese demonstrations that took place in the Burrangong region, in New South Wales, Australia. They occurred on the goldfields at Spring Creek, Stoney Creek, Back Creek, Wombat, Blackguard Gully, Tipperary Gully, and Lambing Flat, between 1860 - 1861. Many unarmed Chinese miners were beaten to death or chased off the goldfield, with their possession looted by the mobs and their houses set on fire. Later in 1861, the Chinese Immigration Regulation Act passed the New South Wales Parliament, which prohibited the naturalisation of Chinese citizens in the state.

During the same period, Tasmania had seen Chinese workers in the North-East where they displaced Europeans on the tin fields. When numbers had reached 1000 in 1880, a public meeting was called to oppose them. The Bulletin weekly magazine came to the forefront of expressing racist sentiments of the time by proudly proclaiming on the front cover masthead: 'Australia for the White Man'. In 1887, after praising the Australians as egalitarians emancipated from the tyrannies of the Old World, it declared:

‘ All white men who come to these shores - with a clean record - and who leave behind them the memory of class distinctions and the religious differences of the old world… are Australians… No nigger, no Chinaman, no lascar, no Kanaka, no purveyor of cheap, coloured labour is an Australian.[2] ’
White Australia policy
See also: White Australia policy
Racism has been a familiar under current in Australia's social and political culture since the gold rushes and the Lambing Flat anti-Chinese massacre in 1861. The Australian colonies had passed restrictive legislation as early as the 1860s, directed specifically at Chinese immigrants. The Factories and Shops Act in Victoria, passed in 1896, made it mandatory that all furniture made by Chinese in the state must be stamped 'Chinese Labour'. To politicians, the objections to the Chinese originally arose because of their large numbers, their perceived paganism and their habits of gambling and smoking opium. It was also felt they would lower living standards, threaten democracy and that their numbers could expand into a 'yellow tide'.

By the time of the formation of the Commonwealth of Australia, in 1901, 98% of people in Australia were white. Trade unions were keen to prevent labour competition from Chinese and Pacific Islander migrants who they feared would undercut wages. One of the first pieces of legislation passed in the new Federal Parliament was the Immigration Restriction Act. Now known as the infamous White Australia Policy, it made it extremely difficult for Asians and Pacific Islanders to migrate to Australia. This Act stated that if a person wanted to migrate to Australia they had to be given a dictation test. The dictation test could be in any European language. So a person from China or Japan who wanted to live in Australia could be tested in one or all of French, Italian or English languages. The small minority that did pass were then given another test in another language. Of course, most Asians failed the tests and were not allowed to migrate to Australia unless they were able to enter the country under very strict exclusion rules and fortunate enough to have well connected sponsors.

Racism is a device politicians and the media have used through out the 19th and 20th Centuries to attract votes and gain political support in the Australian community. Alfred Deakin, Attorney General in Australia's first Commonwealth Government, steered the Immigration Restriction Bill through a willing Parliament. He explained that this racist measure was important in drumming up popular support for Federation:

‘ ... no motive operated more powerfully in dissolving the technical and arbitrary political divisions which previously separated us than the desire that we should be one people and remain one people without the admixture of other races.[3] ’

Australia's first Prime Minister, Edmund Barton agreed with these sorts of views wholeheartedly. Barton treated the Federal Parliament to quotes from one of period's leading theorists of 'race war', Professor Charles Henry Pearson (who, incidentally, had served many years as the first Education Minister in colonial Victoria). Barton believed that stopping coloured immigration was vital to avoid 'waking to find ourselves elbowed and hustled, and perhaps even thrust aside by peoples whom we looked down upon as servile ...'

In 1901 William Morris Hughes, future Prime Minister of Australia, launched the Labor Party's platform citing:

‘ Our chief plank is, of course, a White Australia. There's no compromise about that. The industrious coloured brother has to go – and remain away![4] ’

The White Australia Policy persisted until the 1970s, when elements of it were dismantled, due in part to political and trade pressure from SEATO members of which Australia had been a founder country in 1954. With the international sanctions towards apartheid in South Africa in the late 1960s, such a government sponsored policy of restrictive immigration barriers were perceived as diplomatically embarrassing"....Continue at: Racism in Australia - encyclopedia article - Citizendium

 

[Albert Di Salvo]

So that's two cases of racism, and one case of mistreating a bloke for visiting China too often. Keep it up.

Do you think murder is a joke? Are hate crimes a joke? Here's a story from last April.


OAKLAND, CA (KGO) -- Two young men under arrest for beating a man to death in Oakland will be charged with murder, but not a hate crime. The victim was Chinese; the suspects also attacked his son, apparently for no reason. The victim's widow, however, says she does not harbor any ill feelings towards them.


Attending the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce dinner was an expression of strength by the widow and son of Tian Sheng Yu who died on Tuesday after a fatal beating.

"You walk down the street and someone punches you and then attacks you, nobody could expect that," said the victim's son Jin Cheng Yu.


"In this particular case, we have not seen any evidence that would support it was a hate crime," said Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley.

Still, the recent crimes against Asians in the Bay Area has many of them questioning the motives. On Tuesday in Richmond police say two teens robbed an elderly Asian couple at gunpoint in broad daylight.

Continue at: Two Oakland men to be charged with murder, not hate crime | abc7news.com

 

[spud_meister]

:lol: Now you want to tell me about my countries history, yet you failed to prove anything, the Aborigines and the Pacific Islander were treated much, much worse than any Asian immigrant was. The little bit your article fails to mention, is that my country was racist towards everyone. And, of course, elements of the White Australia Policy were being dismantled in the 40's, so it isn't even that well researched.

 

[Albert Di Salvo]

Spud,

Do you have any comments about the murder of the elderly Chinese man in Oakland, California?

 

[spud_meister]

Spud,

Do you have any comments about the murder of the elderly Chinese man in Oakland, California?

Sorry, I entered the thread before you posted that.

That's 3 cases of racism, you still haven't proved it's happening "all the time".

 

[Albert Di Salvo]

Sorry, I entered the thread before you posted that.

That's 3 cases of racism, you still haven't proved it's happening "all the time".

I asked if you had any comments about the Oakland murder. Do you have any substantive comments? Here's another article on the murder by the Angry Asian Man. Check it out:


4.22.2010

oakland sucker punch attackers charged with murder
The two young men charged with beating Tian Sheng Yu to death (the "sucker punch slaying") in Oakland last week will be charged with murder, but not a hate crime: No hate-crime charge in sucker-punch slaying.

Lavonte Drummer and Dominic Davis appeared in Alameda County Superior Court this afternoon on charges that they murdered Yu, who was shopping with his son in downtown Oakland on Friday when they were accosted by the men. But they will not be charged with a hate crime:
There has been widespread speculation that the attack was motivated in part by race, as the two defendants are African American and Yu was a Chinese immigrant. Chief Deputy District Attorney Tom Rogers, however, said the suspects had been looking to take out their anger on anyone who happened along.

Drummer and Davis had just shared a bottle of Bacardi rum and were complaining about their lives, especially Drummer, who was "frustrated by personal circumstances," Rogers said.

The prosecutor added that Drummer was convicted as a juvenile of a sucker-punch attack on an African American man, and that both defendants were suspected as juveniles of robbing a white man.

In interviews with police, Drummer and Davis "both denied that this had anything to do with the person being an Asian," Rogers said. "This wasn't a knee-jerk decision on our part. We considered all the factors, the totality of the circumstances."
Wait, so you're telling me Tian Sheng Yu is dead because these two losers were mad about hwo ****ty their lives were? Their lives are about to get a lot worse. Drummer and Davis, who turned 18 on Saturday, a day after the attack, have each been charged as adults. More here: Oakland men to be charged with murder for attack

It's random and senseless. I've heard from several people who are pretty outraged that this isn't being prosecuted as a hate crime. With the recent spate of violent crimes against Asians -- many of them elderly victims -- in the Bay Area, can you blame them for the concern?

Donations to the Yu family can be made to the Yu Family Foundation, c/o Metropolitan Bank, 250 East 18th Street, Oakland, CA 94606.

oakland sucker punch attackers charged with murder | angry asian man

 

[spud_meister]

Maybe the killing of Asians needs to happen, it could help keep the Asian street gangs in line, to know they face reprisals.

 

[Albert Di Salvo]

"...In fact, the number of hate crimes against APAs is on a steady rise, with violent hate crimes against APAs up 11 percent in 1995 compared with the 1994 rate, according to the 1995 Audit of Violence Against Asian Pacific Americans compiled by the Washington-based National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (NAPALC). The most recent report from the consortium, which is scheduled to be released within the next few months, showed a similar rise in overall hate crimes in 1996.

Cases that are currently on the radar screens of national APA advocacy groups include the recent assault on a group of APA students outside of a Denny's restaurant in Syracuse, N.Y.; the fatal shooting of a Chinese American man in Rohnert Park, Calif., by a police officer; and the stabbing death of a Vietnamese American man in Los Angeles.

"Now, anytime an Asian American is killed under suspicious circumstances that possibly involve race, Asian American groups are there - immediately investigating the case, alerting the police department to be sensitive to race, the district attorney, politicians," said Renee Tajima-Peña, a filmmaker who produced the documentary Who Killed Vincent Chin?, which chronicled the Chin story and its legal battles and included interviews with witnesses of the beating. "That didn't happen when Vincent Chin was killed. The prosecutor didn't show up for the sentence hearing, there was no translator for Lily Chin, and no advocacy groups were present. People were caught off guard.

"Now there are national lobbying groups in Washington and people on the Internet, and there is this consciousness now that Asian Americans are a distinct race and have been victims of racist violence. That consciousness didn't necessarily exist 15 years ago."

The case helped spawn a number of APA organizations devoted to tracking and investigating hate crimes, including ACJ, the Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence in New York, the National Network Against Anti-Asian Violence in Washington, Asian Americans United in Philadelphia, and Break the Silence Coalition Against Anti-Asian Violence in San Francisco.

Although these groups have been effective in dealing with hate crimes on a local level, Zia said that Asian Americans still lack a national organization of the stature of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People or the Anti-Defamation League.

"That is the one piece of unfinished business," Zia said of the need for a strong national APA organization that deals with hate crimes. "Otherwise we are reinventing the wheel in different regions where hate crimes occur. So in Rohnert Park, Coral Gables, Florida, and Syracuse, we have to start all over again.

"They just end up being local cases and there is no national group to call a press conference to say that we see the incidents as part of a chain of events and that we won't stand for it. We don't have a vehicle to say that. And I think it is very much needed."

Nonetheless, in recent years a whole generation of APA civil-rights lawyers whose inspiration was the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and the Chin case have come of age.

For Karen Narasaki, who was in law school when Chin was killed, the case helped her decide to use her law degree to fight for civil rights.

"It was such a powerful story that brought home how fragile our existence here as Asian Americans is and the need to be vigilant," said Narasaki, executive director of NAPALC. "I know that the incident shaped a lot of people who are currently involved in civil rights, including myself."

Liz Ouyang, a staff attorney at the New York-based Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, who was also inspired by the incident to work in the civil- rights field, felt a personal connection to the Chin case.

"When I heard about Vincent Chin, it made me think of my brothers," said Ouyang, who was a senior at the University of Michigan in 1982.

Growing up in Rochester, N.Y., Ouyang recalls the neighborhood bully taunting her brothers with racial slurs. One day the bully attacked one of her brothers, tying a lasso around his neck and dragging him down the street when he tried to flee.

When the Chin case drummed up memories of what happened to her brother, Ouyang knew what she had to do.

"The legacy of Vincent Chin has left very deep impressions on my work today," she said. "It clearly has influenced me in what I am doing today, representing victims of anti-Asian violence and police brutality. And I tell my clients, 'I will represent you like you were my brother,' because, in a way, they are."

Despite the gains made since Chin's killing, Asian American studies professor Wei warned that the lessons learned from the Chin case must not be forgotten, that the community must continue to remind and teach future generations about Vincent Chin because it is such a significant milestone in the APA community's quest for political empowerment, racial equality, and social justice. It gave the struggle context, a face"...Continue at: http://asianweek.com/061397/feature.html

 

[Albert Di Salvo]

Maybe the killing of Asians needs to happen,...

That is a horrible thing to say. Your statement proves the existence of this anti-Asian attitude among a number of members of DebatePolitics. Would you like to retract that statement?

 

[spud_meister]

That is a horrible thing to say. Your statement proves the existence of this anti-Asian attitude among a number of members of DebatePolitics. Would you like to retract that statement?

Oh gee, woops, did I offend you, but if the logic can be applied to African pirates, why can't it be applied to Asian gangs? And I wasn't even advocating killing children.

 

[Albert Di Salvo]

Oh gee, woops, did I offend you, but if the logic can be applied to African pirates, why can't it be applied to Asian gangs? And I wasn't even advocating killing children.

The subject of this thread is Anti-Asian Racism. The Forum Rules require you to stay on topic.

 

[Albert Di Salvo]

Asian Americans are becoming organized to resist the anti-Asian racism so prevalent in America:


Asian American Group Fights Against Injustice

By Jeff Gammage

(c) 2010 The Philadelphia Inquirer
February 1, 2010



CHARLES FOX / Staff Photographer
At the office of Asian Americans United, director Ellen Somekawa (left) meets with (from left) Judy Ha, Betty Lui, and Neeta Patel.



Less than 24 hours earlier, 30 Asian students said they had been attacked by roaming groups of mostly African American classmates at South Philadelphia High School. Now the bruised and beaten were telling their stories to the TV cameras, backed by leaders of the Asian community.

Helen Gym, a board member at Asian Americans United, directed the crowd like a traffic cop, connecting parents with interpreters and kids with reporters. Her cell phone wouldn't stop ringing. A few steps away, talking to a TV journalist, AAU executive director Ellen Somekawa lambasted the School District of Philadelphia, which she would later accuse of "a total lack of moral leadership."

In the days after that edgy Dec. 4 news conference at the Chinese Christian Church, Somekawa took pains to say that AAU was only one part of a larger coalition of Asian organizations. But from the start, it was obvious that AAU was in charge, framing the community response, as it had done many times before.

It was AAU that led the massive 2000 protest that opposed construction of a Phillies baseball stadium north of Chinatown and that pushed to build a multicultural charter school on the site. AAU helped organize Chinatown parents to demand better schools, blocked plans for a federal prison in Chinatown, worked to help a young illegal immigrant stay in the United States after she miscarried during a rough, forcible deportation attempt in 2006.

This year, AAU celebrates its silver anniversary, marking 25 years as a tenacious, pugnacious advocate. In its time, AAU has given voice to the voiceless and strength to the weak - and in the process succeeded in antagonizing innumerable politicians and elected leaders. Read more:

Asian American Group Fights Against Injustice

 

[spud_meister]

The subject of this thread is Anti-Asian Racism. The Forum Rules require you to stay on topic.

Yeah, they also say discuss the topic, not the members, so you accusing me of being racist is violating those very same rules.

But lets get on topic, you've supplied a few isolated cases of racially motivated discrimination, I could do the same for any minority in America, you've really proved nothing, except that some Americans are racist, and that foreign sources suck at Australian history. You accusations of racism against members of this forum are complete bull****, and by the standards you set for something to be considered racist, you're one of the most racist posters on here, as evidenced by your aforementioned comments about Somalis. And again, unless you can prove that racist motivated attacks and discrimination happen "all the time" against Asians, and that they're somehow copping it worse than other minorities in the US, your thread is just one big failure.

 

[Albert Di Salvo]

Spud,

Do you have any other comments about anti-Asian racism in America? If so, please share them with us. If not, thanks for the chat and I hope you learned something.

 

[spud_meister]

Nah, my main purpose was to troll and point out your hypocrisy, I've done that, so I hope you have a nice day.


Though I will finish with a song.

 

[Albert Di Salvo]

Yeah, they also say discuss the topic, not the members, so you accusing me of being racist is violating those very same rules.

But lets get on topic, you've supplied a few isolated cases of racially motivated discrimination, I could do the same for any minority in America, you've really proved nothing, except that some Americans are racist, and that foreign sources suck at Australian history. You accusations of racism against members of this forum are complete bull****, and by the standards you set for something to be considered racist, you're one of the most racist posters on here, as evidenced by your aforementioned comments about Somalis. And again, unless you can prove that racist motivated attacks and discrimination happen "all the time" against Asians, and that they're somehow copping it worse than other minorities in the US, your thread is just one big failure.

Spud,

It's not about me. I know I get under your skin. I'm sorry. But often people say things that offend others as part of polemics.

The issue here is anti-Asian racism. Focus on that and discuss that exclusively. Thanks.

 

[Albert Di Salvo]

Nah, my main purpose was to troll and point out your hypocrisy, I've done that, so I hope you have a nice day.

At least you're honest about being a troll. Congratulations. Now back to the subject of anti-Asian racism in American and on DebatePolitics. Thanks for the example.

 

[Albert Di Salvo]

One of the reasons for anti-Asian racism in America is fear of economic competition. It's a fear that still exists in America.



Ethnic Competition Leads to Violence

"...numerous acts of discrimination against Chinese immigrants culminated in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. For the first and so far only time in American history, an entire ethnic group was singled out and forbidden to step foot on American soil. Although this was not the first such anti-Asian incident, it symbolizes the legacy of racism directed against our community.

It was followed by numerous denials of justice against Chinese and Japanese immigrants seeking to claim equal treatment to land ownership, citizenship, and other rights in state and federal court in the early 1900s. Many times, Asians were not even allowed to testify in court. Perhaps the most infamous episode of anti-Asian racism was the unjustified imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II -- done solely on the basis of their ethnic ancestry."

One may think that as the Asian American population becomes larger and more integrated into the mainstream American social and political institutions that incidents of anti-Asian racism would occur less often. In fact, the opposite has been true. The last 20 years or so has seen Asian Americans become the fastest-growing targets for hate crimes and violence.

It seems that whenever there are problems in American society, political or economic, there always seems to be the need for a scapegoat -- someone or a group of people who is/are singled out, unjustifiably blamed, and targeted with severe hostility. Combined with the cultural stereotype of Asian Americans as quiet, weak, and powerless, more and more Asian Americans are victimized, solely on the basis of being an Asian American.

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