jaspysayshello:

jaspysayshello:

Okay listen, I totally get overboarding a plane is a thing BUT here’s why I’m fucking mad

#1 They immediately chose an Asian man.

#2 The man’s refusal to leave was because he was a DOCTOR who had to see patients IN THE MORNING

#3 Legally airline officials and police offers are not allowed to board a plane unless due to two circumstances, ONE a passenger is endangering other passengers whether through unruly behavior or possession of a weapon, or two, a passenger is causing a disruption. This passenger was not causing a disruption UNTIL HE WAS DRAGGED OFF THE PLANE

#4 Legally airline rules state that a passenger may be denied boarding a flight due to overboarding. NO WHERE in the rules states that they can do it after everyone has been boarded, AND DRAG THEM OFF THEY PLANE WHILE THEY ARE SCREAMING, HIT THEIR HEAD AND KNOCK THEM UNCONSCIOUS AND GIVE THEM MAJOR FACIAL INJURIES AND A FUCKING CONCUSSION

#5 The man returned to the plane and while being brutally attacked continued screaming “just kill me just kill me” This man would’ve rather died than be treated like that

#6 AND LAST BUT THE BIGGEST FUCKING THING OF ALL, IN AN INTERVIEW WITH CHARLES LEOCHA, A MEMBOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION’S ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AVIATION CONSUMER PROTECTIONS

“They could’ve put their own people on a different flight. They could have sent a couple of crew members across town to the other Chicago airport. They could have put the crew on a Southwest flight. And if they had offered passengers $1,350 in cash, I bet they would have had ten people jump up and take it. And there would’ve been people who would’ve rented a car and drove down to Louisville. There were a lot of things the airline could’ve done, but they didn’t.”

I think this says a lot about americas treatment of minorities. A guarantee you if they had asked a white cishet businessman to leave and he refused they would’ve moved on
They could’ve just moved on. They could’ve asked other people. Or be like “hey we’ll give you $1,350 cash if you leave AND EVERYONE WOULD BE RUSHING OUT OF THE PLANE EXCEPT FOR THE PEOPLE WHO REALLY NEED IT
LIKE A DOCTOR WHO NEEDS TO SEE HIS PATIENTS

For everyone in notes saying this isn’t about race because a “computer system selected it”

#1 a young white couple offered to go instead, they were refused

#2 The computer system did not beat him and drag him off the plane

#3 He had a very valid and important reason why he had to stay on that plane, in the videos you can hear him politely say “I am sorry I cannot leave I am a doctor who has to see patients in the morning”

#4 There was no disruption for the police to be called there UNTIL the police were called there, with the police creating the disruption itself by dragging this man out of the plane

#5 The second time the man boarded the plane he was brutalized even further and was knocked out, having to be carried off the plane in a STRETCHER

Yeah totally this wasn’t about race oops silly me guess it’s okay that he was beaten to an abhorred extent with no basis or grounds

solacekames:

Hey y’all just a polite request from your local Tumblr Japanese-American: if you’re reblogging vintage antifascist Dr. Seuss comics, please look in the background and make sure there aren’t any racist Japanese caricatures before you hit the reblog button. Because he drew a LOT of them. As usual for the era, the cartoons against the Japanese Imperial forces went far into anti-Asian racism in a way that the anti-German stuff never could. He also produced pro-internment images.

This isn’t a “call-out” post of any sort, just please be aware so you don’t accidentally reblog any racist images out of lack of familiarity with the 1940s visual tropes.

ciaomunch:

traumachu:

It started when I was in kindergarten, and I was so proud I did not have to go to Bingo class, unlike my friends, because I could speak good English -

although I had no idea what a yellow dog that could spell had anything to do with Chinese. 

(I figure out now that it was probably called Bilingual class)

I am lucky. I speak the fluent, accentless English of newscasters, the dialect spoken by the children of immigrants, that we learned not from our parents but rather from watching Sesame Street and other things on tv.

Last year, a white facebook friend of mine posted, “In order to celebrate Chinese New Year, me talk rike chinese man arr day.” 

And then told me that she was “sorry I was offended” and “she didn’t mean anything by it” when I (nicely, sweetly) told her that that shit was not okay. She said that she saw it the same as doing an accent, like Irish. Or British. Or Italian. (for bonus points, she even said that she has lots of Asian co-workers and friends, and LOVES Asian people, and so is not a racist.)

And when one of my white friends gets drunk, he thinks his “Asian accent” is hilarious.

And I was told by a coworker about the time my Asian coworker mispronounced “Barroway” as “Bwawwoway” and how hilarious it was.

Here’s the thing - can you guess how many Asian people I know who actually say

me rikey

me from _____

me so solly

(or, if you like, the fetishized versions: me so horny, me love you long time)

if you said ZERO, then ding ding ding! Congratulations, you have working brain cells.

No, my misguided fb friend, the “Asian accent” is not an actual imitation of an accent, comparable to your bad British/Irish/Italian - but rather a mockery of Asian people and their supposed inability to speak English. It is the perpetuation of the image of Asian people as perpetual foreigners in America.

Like that time when my family was at an Italian restaurant, and we were speaking to my father in Cantonese, and a drunken white lady said very loudly, “GOD when you come to this country at least learn the language!”

Or when my father was pulled over for speeding, and although he said “what’s the problem, officer?” the first thing the state trooper said was, “Do you speak English?”

Your fake “Asian accents” are not harmless and silly, because at the root of the joke, it says - you, you are stupid. You cannot speak English. You are Other. You do not belong.

my parents have been in this country for 30 years. They have been American citizens for 30 years.

And they are very self-conscious of their imperfect English, afraid that it makes them look ignorant, knowing that it marks them as immigrants. That, after 30 years, you can still be told (in not so many words) that you do not belong.

The Cultural Revolution started in China when my father was 13. He was pulled out of school and, later, sent to work in the fields. (He escaped to Hong Kong when he was 18, but that is another story for another time.)

When my father came to this country, he had a middle school education and did not speak a lick of English. He worked as a busboy at a Chinese restaurant, the evening shift that ran until 3 or 4 in the morning, and went to school during the day.

It took my father ten years to earn his bachelor’s degree. He is now an engineer.

Is this not your “American Dream?”

When my mother came to this country, she spoke very little English. She got a job as an entry level clerk. Over the years she earned one promotion after another. She is now management at a large federal agency, and manages funds for the whole state.

Is this not your “American Dream?”

And my father didn’t understand why his coworkers said, “flied lice, flied lice!” to him over and over and laughed.

And my father is still afraid to speak in a professional setting, even when he has ideas. 

And my mother still checks and double checks her professional e-mails with me, for fear of mockery from the same people she manages.

And people don’t understand why I can’t take a harmless joke. Why I don’t think that shit is funny.

No, I don’t “rikey.” 

No, I won’t “love you long time.”

And no, I’m not sorry.

So, please, kindly - FUCK OFF.

Reblogging this for, like, the fiftieth time because it has never stopped being relevant to my life and it always, always breaks my heart.

It’s not funny. It’s not okay. It’s not harmless. It’s alienating and hurtful.

becketted:

stardust-rain:

the-stonedsoldier:

Listen, I know everyone’s pissed about Doctor Strange (me included) and I’ve seen a lot of completely rational posts about boycotting the movie when it’s released. But I’ve also been on this trash site and in this trash fandom long enough to know that this needs to be said: Nobody has to boycott the movie, and if somebody does chose to go and see the movie, that doesn’t make them some gross racism promoting scumbag. I’m just really tired of the whole “this thing is problematic so nobody can enjoy it” attitude that a lot of people on this website have. I won’t be going to see the movie, and I encourage everyone else to at least avoid paying for it, but if you’re excited about the movie I’m not going to stop you, because I’m not a total asshole. 

oh my god i am so fucking tired of this milquetoast activism that doubles as apologism coming from white allies and I’m not surprised that it’s 90% white people reblogging this.

if Asians and other POC want to see this movie, it’s another issue because that is an intra-community discussion but you, op, as a white person do not get to say what is or is not racist especially when you’re speaking to (and about) a white-majority fandom.

you, a white person, do not get a voice talking about a system that was created for you, that you personally benefit from.

you, white person, do not get to speak on what is a good “anti-racist ally” or not.

Because you’re literally telling white people that actively financially supporting a racist system that they can choose not to support doesn’t make them racist.

this isn’t about “liking a problematic movie” this is about financially supporting something that is literally founded in being dehumanising and white supremacist. 

There is a difference between enjoying something despite its problems and enjoying something because of them.

There is media that tries to do right (or at least, tries not to actively do wrong) but fails in certain aspects, and there is media that is grounded in doing wrong because it was founded on racist ideas and Dr Strange is quite literally the second. 

This movie is directly based on neo-colonialist ideals and white supremacist narrative of white consumption of Asian cultures and “mighty whitey” archetype. It is founded on a bunch of white people appropriating Asian culture while erasing and diminishing us from the story. It uses orientalist, Asian-coded villains and puts white people in yellowface. If you take that away…what do you have left? two squinty, thin-lipped white guys you thirst over? The Dr Strange plotline hinges on him learning “Asian mysticism” from a white-woman in Tibetan clothing to gain his powers and using it against Asian-coded villains in yellowface while being served by an Asian “manservant”. Furthermore, the entire basis of it erases Tibetan culture (that was actually present in the comics) just to please the Chinese censors and furthers the oppression of Tibetan people . 

This movie did not come out of nowhere. Media does not exist in a vacuum – more importantly, the media system and the systematic process of media production that propagates and favours this kind of movie and this kind of narrative does not exist in a vacuum. All this is borne from a system of whiteness that is directly supported by people putting money in Marvel’s pockets - white people support and benefit from that system because it was literally created with them in mind. 

One person’s ticket doesn’t count for much in the long run, but the point is that a majority of the audience think exactly the same thing that this post suggests. They don’t need any goddamn “soothing encouragement” or “friendly reminder that it’s okay to like problematic stuff uwuwuwu” to see this movie because this is the kind of attitude that Marvel encourages. it encourages passivity. It encourages desensitisation. It invests in the audience being able to ignore the movie’s blatant racism. 

movies like Dr Strange (and American Sniper before that and the Interview before that and Lucy before that) banks on idea that the audience is both indifferent and desensitised to non-white people being erased, made the butt of jokes and dehumanised.

Marvel execs are betting on being “too big to fail” because they are counting on people being able to ignore what they’ve done, so they (and other studios) can carry on doing it, because this is proof that you can uphold white supremacist ideals by blatantly erasing poc from our own stories and get away with it. 

if your enjoyment of a piece of media is based on the fact that it dehumanises the people it appropriates from and being able to ignore that because you can turn a blind eye and deaf ear, then yes, you are part of the problem.

Paying money towards that means supporting that perspective from not only them, but from Hollywood studios across the board.  So yes, if you support this movie, you’re directly influencing and promoting that decision and that attitude because you’re putting money in the pockets who are creating racist narratives and proving them right. It gives them incentive to keep doing it. 

Look, I can’t tell white people to not go see the movie (what am i gonna do? confiscate their tickets? stop them at the theatre?) but if you do go see it, you need to think long and hard about why you call yourself “anti-racist ally” because at this point all you’re doing is to make yourself look good. White privilege means being able to opt out of activism, and you’re using it for exactly that. 

Because you’re literally telling white people that actively financially supporting a racist system that they can choose not to support doesn’t make them racist.

this isn’t about “liking a problematic movie” this is about financially supporting something that is literally founded in being dehumanising and white supremacist.

This. I encourage my fellow white Marvel fans to reblog this too. Enjoying something problematic and using your money to support products that perpetuate oppression are two very different things. It’s really easy for us to hit reblog in every social justice post we see and talk about how racist Marvel is but what does it matter if we continue giving them money even though we know what they’ll keep using it for?