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Sorry Asians, My Blackness is Not Your Counterculture


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I’m just going to start by saying solidarity across all POC is a ridiculous concept, especially as a Black person. The racial hierarchy does exist, and with a history of erased, unwritten and stolen culture, Black people are at the bottom. Anti-blackness is a global concept, shared and spread by the infectious history of colonization, and in times today, it is not just expressed by the aggressors of said colonization, but by non-black POC too. 
There are Korean pop stars sporting Black protective styles as a way to follow trends and fit an image with their music, Japanese youth transforming into their own versions of Black people with a sub-culture of “B-Style,†Indonesian rapper Rich Chigga using the n-word both as a combination with his stage name and in the song that skyrocketed him to American fame, and a “Vine†star turned “Love and Hip Hop†cast member using Black culture to her advantage (and taking on a racist stereotypical Asian caricature for comedy) and then attacking Black people for calling out her use of AAVE and protective styles.
When credit is meant to be given, and Asians are given fame and money for a culture that isn’t theirs, and when we as their fellow POC are left in the dust still fighting for their rights and end of the appropriation of their culture along with ours, it feels like we’ve drawn the short end of the stick.

 

Full article here: https://nextshark.com/sorry-asians-blackness-not-counterculture/ 

 

Thoughts?

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I’m just going to start by saying solidarity across all POC is a ridiculous concept, especially as a Black person. The racial hierarchy does exist, and with a history of erased, unwritten and stolen culture, Black people are at the bottom.

 

 

This is such an American-centric view I had to laugh, sorry not sorry. 

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Whether or not black people are oppressed is still up for debate. Some people don't think they are. Just saying "black people are oppressed" isn't going to prove a point. Black people put their culture out there through music and other media and ya'll are surprised when people start emulating ya'll? Lol

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So tired of some Black Americans  blaming everything on oppression and racism to the point they even attack African immigrants in the US like Nigerians and such because the latter's successes both socially and economically doesn't fit their narrative that blacks overall are generally oppressed.. 

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The article reads very aggressively. The idea of using terms as insighting and dangerous as 'racial hierarchy' and 'fight white supremacy as a collective' in an article about the possibility of Asians being influenced by so called 'black culture' in clothing and fashion trends as well as music seems at a disconnect to me. 

 

Where has the writer made this connection that the supposed appropriation of another races culture somehow puts the race in question at the bottom of the hypothetical food chain of the writers own creation? I don't see it. 

 

The writ up attempts to talk about how some Asian countries are influenced a lot by this 'black culture' and honestly that point alone does stand and has weight-arguing this would have been interesting and made for a valid read, however any attempt at reasonable argument is snuffed out by the idea that 1, this is inherently a bad thing and 2, the fishtailing off into a seemingly separate and unrelated point that this is somehow responsible for the idea that white people are on top and in subsequently black people are on the bottom.

 

The article really just seems like a vessel for the author to deliver her own racist beliefs. 

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If we are solely talking about music, I don't think sharing a love for a particular style of music started by black people and trying to emulate it is a bad thing. Culture becomes richer that way, and it has always been like this

 

Heavy metal which was started by white ppl have now plenty of Latinx and Asian bands, which gives even more variety to make the genre more interesting

 

If you are sharing something to the world, chances are people are gonna want to do something similar, that's just how it is

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People have forgotten and twisted the meaning of culture appropriation so much that the debate consists of nothing but bullshit.

'Black culture' is cool. People wanna be cool. People try to emulate what's cool. This is not 'stealing' or 'culture appropriation'. Racist people will be racist no matter what so don't take it out on people who actually like the culture. Yes racism exists. People of every race are racist to people from every race. It's not all races being racist only towards black people. 

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So tired of some Black Americans  blaming everything on oppression and racism to the point they even attack African immigrants in the US like Nigerians and such because the latter's successes both socially and economically doesn't fit their narrative that blacks overall are generally oppressed.. 

 

I've never known any black person to do that, and I live in a place where there are plenty of successful black immigrants (esp from the Caribbean).

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If it wasn't for the greedy african warlords that have been capturing and selling their own people to white Americans back in the day - black slavery wouldn't even be a thing and there would be no blues or hood hip hop culture as a result. Just saying.

 

 

And why don't we talk about an important issue like top American universities making it harder for asians to get in because they're just doing better. That's straight up racist and yet PC ultra progressive culture just doesn't seem to notice that at all.

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If it wasn't for the greedy african warlords that have been capturing and selling their own people to white Americans back in the day - black slavery wouldn't even be a thing and there would be no blues or hood hip hop culture as a result. Just saying.

 

 

And why don't we talk about an important issue like top American universities making it harder for asians to get in because they're just doing better. That's straight up racist and yet PC ultra progressive culture just doesn't seem to notice that at all.

They even have POC movements in a lot of universities where only people of color are allowed an education and they exclude white people and even asians from attending school. This was even approved by the higher ups, which is just mind boggling

If that isn't the definition of racial discrimination, idfk what is.

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Meanwhile no one complains about this

 

 

 

 

 

How about non Asians should not eat Asian food, use Asian languages as tattoos or learn any Asian martial arts etc cos it's NOT their culture. Let's all be regressive and not share our culture to others.

I'm not religious, but amen!

Non Asians think they can freely cultivate and use Asian culture in their everyday lives without consequences but get so damn up in arms when others try to imitate or even show appreciation to their culture

 

Fuck this SJW world were living in! FUCK!!!

I wish I was born in the 80's or even earlier. Feels like life back then was just so much more welcoming

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I guess you don't have enough black americans/canadians SJW friends because I have and they can be quite messy...

 

I have plenty of black friends. Though they are for equal rights and opportunities for black people, they are not SJW. They do not curse at any successful black person (nor have I known any other black person to do so...). Also, the majority of black Americans aren't SJW, nor do they care for them.

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Posted · Hidden by Kayden411, August 2, 2018 - No reason given
Hidden by Kayden411, August 2, 2018 - No reason given

If everyone agreed that black people are oppressed, then why do sjw constantly feel the need to argue that "black people are oppressed"?

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The racial hierarchy does exist, and with a history of erased, unwritten and stolen culture, Black people are at the bottom.

 

 

this is true where i live tho

i come from a south asian family but i grew up in europe and i've always heard relatives and other non-black POC speaking ill of black people

even though the troublesome and low-class areas here have a problem with kids of behaving badly, i'd always hear people talking extra shit about, not only the behaviour, but also the ethnicity of the black kids

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