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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism
This is a video essay, with a lot of references, bringing together different ideas about representation, race swapping in portrayals, and desirability and gender. It’s pretty good. I can’t evaluate beyond that, because I haven’t studied this too much. Discussion where I found it: https://www.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/1j44s67/representasian_asian_desexualization_race/ Original Post: 2023-03-10 I made a tiktok that recommended feminism…
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
These two terms came up during the discussions about the Monterey Park shooting. It was also raised in the murder of Tyre Nichols, and the mass shooting in Half Moon Bay. The following definitions are from the Canadian Race Relations Foundation:
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Research Sparse about Less Educated Asian American Men in the Labor Market
I got into a discussion/argument about labor market discrimination against Asian American men in the working class.
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Links to MLK Speeches and Writings
These are the sources for a few memes I created.
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Misunderstanding the Purpose of the Model Minority
People are upset about stereotypes, and often conflate the Model Minority Myth with the stereotype that Asians are good at math. So, to “challenge” the stereotype, an Asian person will say they aren’t good at math. They misunderstand the point of the MMM stereotype.
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
Every once in a while, I get upset by something AWA puts up, especially anything that discourages Asian American participation in politics. This time, it was a poll about how the two parties differ in who they think suffers discrimination.
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Fascism Videos (Explaining It)
I’m going to accumulate videos explaining this midcentury political movement that’s getting a resurgence today.
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On the Vice Asian American, Model Minority and Asian Hate, Panel Video
This video’s made the rounds, and I felt compelled to write some about it. It’s not a great panel, but it’s good that the video was made and put out there for a general audience that might not be too familiar with the current debate/infighting.
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1908 Anarchist Terrorist Plot by Japanese in America Against the Emperor of Japan!
The actions of your tools has made free political action impossible in Japan. We abandon political action as absurd and useless under present conditions, and resort to physical force. We do not believe in war, but you have forced it upon us. We are opposed fundamentally to international conflicts, however.
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Reading Up on Gang Stalking
I recently made and lost a friend who is going through some hard times. One of the things they raised was that they were a victim of gang stalking. This brought back memories of LA Indymedia, because there were many gang stalking posts on the site. (For examples, see the “stalking” tag or the “geral…
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The Commodity Fetish
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Chili History
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
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Exiting Amazon (Again)
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Study Page for Feasibility and Strategy
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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Erasing Racism with Revisionist History about Ichimatsu Dolls
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
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Two Videos of People with COVID-19, from Early 2020
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The Anti Nazi Parade – history of anti-fascism in Los Angeles (and some fascism)
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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Making a Graduated Cylinder Measuring Cup from a Jar
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
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More Little Tokyo Redevelopment, 1969
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What Are You Shooting For? by Roberto Rubalcava et. al. 1993
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New “Yellow Peril” Fear Mongering Laws; Objectification; Newsom Vetoes AI Bill
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Health Insurance; Prisoner Laborers; Macron Shits on the Left, Appoints Right Winger PM
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On the Vice Asian American, Model Minority and Asian Hate, Panel Video
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DALL-E as Cheese Hegemon and Destroyer of Words: Hamburgers and Pizzas with Mandatory Cheese, and Erasure of Pigs in Blankets
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Ezra Klein Discussion with Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin
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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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Selected Posts from Facebook from February 2020
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ChatGPT: who writes about late 20th century neoliberalism and the national question
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
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Prompts to Discover an LLM’s Training about the Anti-Chinese Movement
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Beauty Calculator Results show AI Training Bias
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I’m a Trollaholic
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Dodging
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How to take a “tour” of how much damage COVID-19 has done, using the LA County surveillance dashboard.
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May 1, 2025 March and Rally for Immigrant Rights
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About This Blog
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Professions in Decline, and Some Growing
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Copyright, “Copyleft”, Creative Commons, Public Domain, Anti-Copyright
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
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Racism: NatGeo, Housing, Crossword