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YOU’RE AN UNBEARABLE HUMAN BEING? YES YOU ARE.

Yelling is not emotion. Nor is it intensity. Nor is it emphasis.

It is yelling. And CAPS = YELLING.

Also, why bother asking questions that you answer yourself?

It seems you have a problem with me. What is it? Also, I’m shutting off anonymous questions, so show yourself. What have I done to you?

Ask me anything

re/write:: thoughts on a. wallace & asian am response

miswritten:

callin you out on your bullshit.

[*i use the term ‘asian american’ here for convenience, not because i don’t have issues with how the term itself is constructed (exclusions of southeast asians, south asians, erasures of the differences and different positions of “asian” groups)].

  • i have not…

This is, by far, the most comprehensive and ideological (as opposed to, as the author notes, sexist and misogynistic; I use the term positively in this context) responses I’ve seen to the AW affair.

She brings up an interesting point - colleges used to enact Asian quotas, the state government enforces proposition 209, one can finish a degree at UCLA without taking a class about another culture, people of color are overrepresented in prison and underrepresented in schools, the country is absolutely ruthless towards immigrants, and this is what sets UCLA off and gets broadcast from Singapore to the UK?

In response to the “Asians in the library” from tonight.

In response to the “Asians in the library” from tonight.

kristinaashley: fuckyeahapihistory: Silver Cariaso (left) and two other men lean on a car in a neighborhood in Watts, Los Angeles. 1959. Filipinos established a presence in Los Angeles beginning in the 1920s. With the passage of the 1924 federal immigration law excluding Japanese immigration, a vacuum developed in the agricultural labor market. Most of the Filipino newcomers were young, single males who came as sojourners—“birds of passage”—intending to work temporarily and return eventually to their homeland. The rampant racist sentiments originally directed against the Chinese and Japanese were now turned on the Filipinos, including a powerful organized movement for exclusion and repatriation. Those Filipinos remaining in Los Angeles found themselves isolated in the poorest slums. 

kristinaashley:

fuckyeahapihistory:

Silver Cariaso (left) and two other men lean on a car in a neighborhood in Watts, Los Angeles. 1959.

Filipinos established a presence in Los Angeles beginning in the 1920s. With the passage of the 1924 federal immigration law excluding Japanese immigration, a vacuum developed in the agricultural labor market. Most of the Filipino newcomers were young, single males who came as sojourners—“birds of passage”—intending to work temporarily and return eventually to their homeland. The rampant racist sentiments originally directed against the Chinese and Japanese were now turned on the Filipinos, including a powerful organized movement for exclusion and repatriation. Those Filipinos remaining in Los Angeles found themselves isolated in the poorest slums. 

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