Category: Politics
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
A: We aren’t right wing. We actually vote more for Democratic Party candidates than every other group, except for African Americans.
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Explanation of Anti-Asian Racist Content
I was reading Asians With Attitudes and they had this racist post up, all mad. They didn’t link to it, so I found it: It’s lowbrow racism, but people think it’s funny, so they repost it, but added an…
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Old Articles about anti-Zionism and Zionism by Jewish Communists
Articles from the Marxists International Archive about Jewish Communist and Socialist anti-Zionism, mainly from before 1948.
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Kare, Curry, anti-Imperialism, Colonization
How Japanese curry (kare) intersected with a right wing anti-Western, anti-imperialist movement.
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
White nationalists believe that all of their problems with society are created by an organized conspiracy of Jewish people who are motivating and pushing immigration laws, civil rights laws, And it’s a belief system that in many ways disregards…
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The Western Gender Binary
This page is going to become a list of links to articles about the ideas of Judith Butler, and some feminist texts. History: I was intending to do a reading group for Gender Trouble, but this seems to not…
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An Argument for the Abolition of the Electoral College
Why does a candidate sometimes win the popular vote, but lose the Electoral College vote? There are some misconceptions floating around about this. I’ll note them in parentheses in my explanation below: The people’s votes do not directly choose…
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Comparing “Uncle Tom” and the “Model Minority” Stereotype
This was written by Bing Chat. I asked it to compare the two, and format it as a table. That specific prompt, to form it as a table, caused ChatGPT to find more parallel comparisons than it found without…
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Turn out for #JusticeForRoques May 1
It’s one day after the hearing, and I’m still mad. The arraignment is on May 1. Show up. The organization I’m with, PANA, is preparing a statement, but I’ll share my online links below. Before that, I will share…
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
This was weird. I asked ChatGPT to do this: compare the reddit groups r/asianamerican to r/aznidentity It did, and wrote a few paragraphs. Then I asked it: what are your sources for the last answer? and got this: What…