lol. lmao, even
I do feel kind of bad for the shop owners. It sounds like they barely speak English and have essentially no idea what is going on, both with the protest specifically and with broader sentiment about police. Apparently they assumed the protesters were complaining about the police being too soft on crime, lol.
I don’t buy it. How can you live in San Francisco / the USA and not be aware of how many people hate the police? Going to generalize here and others please correct me if I’m wrong but we all know about the fucked up politics of small business owners. The article is emphasizing their immigrant background to once again turn immigrants / model minorities against Black people. No mention is made of how long the ice cream shop owners have lived in the USA because they’ve probably been living here for decades and were also probably using the same excuse during the LA Riots.
Nothing but love for Korean comrades but the people who leave South Korea to come to the USA (at least legally) to start businesses tend to be very rightwing. US-centered Korean-language internet forums are totally deplorable and tend to consist of either normies or Nazi wannabes. The moment they see this story you can guess exactly how they’ll react.
Right wing asians think that if they just hate black people hard enough, they wont get put into camps by the chuds for being Chinese Spies. Nevermind that these people are korean, or ardent anticommunists, to the chuds all Asians are enemies.
Yeah from what I heard from my Chinese friend, there are also a non-insignificant number of Asian right-wingers who buy into white nationalism. Like, they think that white people are somehow inherently better than them. Kinda mind-blowing how weird peoples' beliefs can get. Right-wingers just love their hierarchies.
But it somewhat checks out with how people worship billionaires or the royal family.
Yeah not to mention how neatly a lot of racist ideas from England slotted into similar ideas regarding caste in India. Many of India's ruling classes were happy enough to be almost as good as the whites as long as they were definately better than a whole load of other people.
...Give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
This is also a really important point. People are fine getting fucked over as long as someone else is getting fucked over even harder.
An Asian WhiteNat sounds fucking wild. Like every single asian country has pretty good reason to not follow that particular type of thinking, but what the hell. I guess American occupation does produce some of the biggest brains, especially from all that discarded uranium and exhaust smog they produce.
One I knew through a friend moved to the USA with her family using a student visa and hated that she was stuck taking English classes with a bunch of Muslims. She said Trump was right to want to get rid of them. Her family had somehow saved up $100,000 and they burned through it all in a couple of years and were forced to move back to Korea. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
I know nothing about this, but aren't many "immigrants who go to American to start businesses" at least petite bourgeois as well? Again, I have fecking idea. But I struggle to imagine them as broke, working poor people who got lucky and were able to go to the US.
I think if they come here legally, yes, unless they’re refugees. America attracts a lot of the shittiest people on Earth. They think they can’t make it at home, they have no class solidarity, so they’ll move to America and get rich there. And some of them are right because Americans tend to be fucking lazy. Nurses can double, triple, quadruple their incomes and work much less if they move from South Korea to America. I know someone who seems to have grown up on a feudal plantation in the Philippines. She’s advancing her career here by leaps and bounds because the white people just can’t keep up with someone coming from that kind of poverty who has found a way out, and places like the Philippines are kept poor and undeveloped specifically so they will continue to supply the imperial core with a reserve army of labor. She’s an evangelical Christian but I don’t know, she’s actually really cool and her family has been fucked so hard by capitalism so I suspect she’s open to radicalization (as long as she can keep Jesus!). They had to stay in South Korea for a little while actually and the immigration authorities there put her dad in a fucking dog cage.
Edit: if you think becoming a nurse in a second language is easy, look up some NCLEX sample questions and then imagine completing them in Tagalog rather than English.
A lot of wannabe cops in poor, immigrant, and minority communities.
Same. Sounds like they got in over their heads without even realizing it.
they assumed the protesters were complaining about the police being too soft on crime, lol.
Has this literally ever happened in human history?
It was a common complaint in the 80s and 90s, that police responded slower to black neighborhoods.
"They only used the parts they want to show," Kim said of the edited video on Instagram. "The customers were scared, kids were crying and I don’t think they posted all of that."
Why was everyone so scared when the police were right there next to them eating iced creams?
Is it because police are fucking useless and everyone knows it?
The 7-minute long video was shared on Instagram last week by activist and rapper DoggTown Dro, whose real name is Adroa Anderson. In 2020, Anderson faced charges after allegedly punching the organizer of a "free speech" rally in San Francisco.
Why include that? It makes no difference in the actual story
Read between the lines and it accomplishes the opposite of what they're going for. They punched a Nazi.
It was a hate crimerino! They punched a black man and said the no-r n-word! Kindly ignore the ethnicity of this hate crime criminal thug criminal.
"We didn't understand the terms they used and what was going on," Kim said. "If we understood better we can react better, but no one explained it to us and we don’t understand what that means. We can’t properly react."
No shit the pigs would only use a front for a pro-cop event where the host can feign
innocenceignorance.
