cuntybisexual:

god okay at the gym today i was watching CNN and this stupid fucking white male anchor had a south asian guy as one of the guests or whatever, and they were talking about harvard’s discriminatory policy toward asian american applicants. basically harvard’s approach iterates that without the subjective personality metric, harvard’s campus population would be 43% asian, and thus the quotas, which cap the asian population at 19%, are necessary to preserve diversity. so naturally the south asian guy was talking about how racist this is. and the motherfucking white male anchor waxes lyrical about how he wants his white kids to be around black and latinx people so that they get a “diverse education with multiple perspectives”. as if asian americans don’t contribute to diversity! frankly this whole thing reeks of “asians are overpopulated so we need to rid the world of them” tbh. and naturally the south asian guy was like “wtf are you talking about, that’s quite literally racist against asian americans and it tokenizes black and latinx people as well” and of course the fucking cracker was like “you misunderstood me, you’re reading into this too much, blah blah blah”. when will white men die? 

full offense but this really is the model minority myth in action and it’s why i’ve always fucking said that the myth doesn’t just serve to impose positive stereotypes on asian americans. its primary function is to make invisible the racialized struggles of asian people so that white supremacist capitalism can usurp asian labor. 

not only do white people routinely erase the diversity of asian people, but they also continually try and erase white supremacist, colonialist, and imperialist brutality against asians. european countries colonized so much of south asia and southeast asia. europe + the US occupied china through spheres of influence. USA dropped two nuclear bombs on japan and interned japanese americans. the US killed numerous vietnamese civilians for the sake of imperialism. the US continues to exert an imperialist influence in the korean peninsula, in guam, in okinawa, in the philippines. britain fucking drained every last resource from india and enacted two genocidal famines in the region of bengal. winston churchill said that indians were worse than germans. britain then left the south asian subcontinent with a bloody partition of punjab and of bengal, effectively contributing to the bengali genocide of 1971. the US invaded iraq and afghanistan and destroyed both countries, it installed a dictator in iran. britain colonized yemen. france colonized lebanon and syria. USA, britain, france, canada, and its allies hurl bombs and drone strikes in pakistan, in yemen, in iraq, in syria, directly leading to the rise of reactionary groups within those countries, such as ISIS. the US has enacted brutal sanctions against north korea and has prevented korean reunification for its own purposes. 

and this doesn’t even begin to cover american discrimination against asian immigrants, beginning with the chinese exclusion act and vile xenophobia and racism against east asian immigrants. or how today, south and southeast asian immigrants face immense violence. or the resurgence in anti-sino bias. 

it’s so fucking easy to forget that asian americans actually do face racism to because white people are so good at pretending that every asian leads an easy life and isn’t racialized and that all asians look and act and think the same.

There were similar quotas in place, and the same justifications for
them, against Jews at Harvard in the 1920s-1930s. The whole “we don’t
evaluate for merit but for ~~personality~~” is a dogwhistle for
discriminating against whoever is getting the model minority myth
applied to them at a given time. It’s not a positive myth at all and it encourages discrimination, stereotyping, and violence.