Also: bring back the shitty custom watermarks
Gotta love how they frame it that the AAPI hate is only Trump's fault and not their own. Blue MAGA.
"b-but the Trumpists are racist and the Democrats aren't!!"
the same people who think putting an "All are welcome" sign in their suburban front lawn absolves them of all racism
“All are welcome”
*all who make above 60k a year and are white
posts feverishly on NextDoor if they spot someone living out of their car
I think you can tune into MSNBC and get the China conspiracy theories in the show sponsored by StopAsianHate ads in the breaks.
Now that's efficiency!
Sidenote.
I have seen "Asian and Pacific Islander" showing up a lot in the last few years, in weird contexts.
It's a demographic category made up to reduce the number of checkboxes on forms. And I remember a campaign T shirt that said "Asians and Pacific Islanders for Hillary 2016' on the front of it.
I know a lot of Asians, a lot of Pacific Islanders, and a lot of mixed Asian AND Pacific Islanders and not a single one ever referred to themselves as anything like "Asian and Pacific Islander" (or, to be honest "Pacific Islander" either).
It's kind of fucking weird to mash them together in demographic talk, and even weirder to talk about it like an actual identity. Like oh yeah, I'm a European and Middle Eastern.
You could refer to people as Pacific Islanders or Polynesians, Micronesians, or Melanesians, or just their actual country of origin / specific ethnicity. Those three groups are about as broad as you can get while still having easily recognizable cultural similarities, shared/related traditions and slightly mutually intelligible languages.
Yeah most people of mixed East Asian descent will say they're Asian or just be more specific, and then it really seems like a British thing to actually match the continent of Asia to who they call Asian.
"AAPI" might exist in the US because Hawaii has most of the pacific islanders and the majority are also Asian, and then the biggest other group is Filipinos and that country itself is a melting pot, and people generally look way more similar to East Asians than people out in the rest of the Pacific.
Also it's pretty strange to say "Asian American AND Pacific Islander" and that seems like a very common version. It's like the Asians are American but not the Pacific Islanders.
Yeah it's funny, I know a 100% Hawai'ian guy who visited Texas and got detained by CBP pigs for hours because they didn't believe he was Hawai'ian. To be fair to the squealing hogs, he also had Mexicans just up and speaking Spanish to him.
Nobody is screaming "woo han flu!!!" at that guy on the street.
I shit you not, I saw some post saying "Stop South East Asian Hate". That's one way to be sinophobic.
What does AAPI stand for again? my brain can't figure it out.
I won't believe the Lab theory unless they find a secret lab managed and staffed entirely by pangolins.
The hate crimes problem has been solved through bills and front yard lawn signs that tell racists politely, yet firmly, to stop hating. So they will go ahead and press the right button now without sweating.
Racists when some boomer Lib pub tells them to “stop hating” https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/086/808/90f.gif
Stop AAPI Hate
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Stop fucking up our agitaprop efforts in the Pacific Islands by confusing Taiwanese / HK western-loyalists with the people we're actually trying to make you scared of.
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