Comments on: Constructing Racism: Imposing Hypocrisy and Manufacturing Hurt http://www.infiniteinjury.org/blog/2008/05/04/constructing-racism-imposing-hypocrisy-and-manufacturing-hurt/ Good Analysis, Bad Grammar Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:18:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: TruePath http://www.infiniteinjury.org/blog/2008/05/04/constructing-racism-imposing-hypocrisy-and-manufacturing-hurt/comment-page-1/#comment-1045 TruePath Wed, 07 May 2008 06:44:24 +0000 http://www.infiniteinjury.org/blog/?p=393#comment-1045 <p>Ohh, perhaps I wasn't very clear (and I will update the post to make this clear). I don't mean to refer to multi-racial people generally. From what I've seen people who are half-black, half-indian or some other mixed race very likely do get shit. I was only commenting specifically on <strong>half-asian women</strong> relative to whites. For all I know half-asian guys are in a worse position.</p> <p>It's also been my experience that half-asians can get shit from the asian side. For instance one of my close friends was half-japanese and he used to tell me about all sorts of crap he got in Japan for not being fully Japanese. I was only speaking about one very narrow group and even there I didn't mean to deny that there was <em>ever</em> any issues.</p> <p>My point was that it's very very easy to start seeing the world through one particular lens and that racial prejudice is just one way that can happen. It's important that we distingush true racism that still exists from a half-asian lady getting offended that someone uses the term "Chinese Fire Drill" and the importance of this is exactly the fact that real racism does still exist and ought not to be equated with this trivial crap.</p> Ohh, perhaps I wasn’t very clear (and I will update the post to make this clear). I don’t mean to refer to multi-racial people generally. From what I’ve seen people who are half-black, half-indian or some other mixed race very likely do get shit. I was only commenting specifically on half-asian women relative to whites. For all I know half-asian guys are in a worse position.

It’s also been my experience that half-asians can get shit from the asian side. For instance one of my close friends was half-japanese and he used to tell me about all sorts of crap he got in Japan for not being fully Japanese. I was only speaking about one very narrow group and even there I didn’t mean to deny that there was ever any issues.

My point was that it’s very very easy to start seeing the world through one particular lens and that racial prejudice is just one way that can happen. It’s important that we distingush true racism that still exists from a half-asian lady getting offended that someone uses the term “Chinese Fire Drill” and the importance of this is exactly the fact that real racism does still exist and ought not to be equated with this trivial crap.

]]> By: Jared http://www.infiniteinjury.org/blog/2008/05/04/constructing-racism-imposing-hypocrisy-and-manufacturing-hurt/comment-page-1/#comment-1044 Jared Tue, 06 May 2008 22:00:39 +0000 http://www.infiniteinjury.org/blog/?p=393#comment-1044 <p>Your fiance is fortunate not to feel that pressure. I certainly do; and I know many other multi-racial or multi-cultural people who feel the same bind, but are often afraid to speak about it. I think your complaint about oversensitivity is misplaced since its the very confusion and difficulty explaining racial identity that causes tension, not perceived bias.</p> Your fiance is fortunate not to feel that pressure. I certainly do; and I know many other multi-racial or multi-cultural people who feel the same bind, but are often afraid to speak about it. I think your complaint about oversensitivity is misplaced since its the very confusion and difficulty explaining racial identity that causes tension, not perceived bias.

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