"I won't turn this into a discussion about Asian women, but I will say that SC lost a ton of credibility with expressed belief in that myth."
😄 His credibility was already shot by that point for me. But yes, I hate this myth too. In fact, I hate all these myths that are founded on mind-reading and weak correlations. Even if I'd only ever…
"I won't turn this into a discussion about Asian women, but I will say that SC lost a ton of credibility with expressed belief in that myth."
😄 His credibility was already shot by that point for me. But yes, I hate this myth too. In fact, I hate all these myths that are founded on mind-reading and weak correlations. Even if I'd only ever dated Asian women in my entire life, there is no reason to assume that I'm attracted to them because of some fantasy of subservience.
More importantly, it's racist to assume that they're all subservient because they're Asian. What if each of those women had been particularly assertive, as many Asian women obviously are? So often I find that people who accuse others of racism for things lke this don't realise that the racism is happening in their own minds.
I don't think George Floyd 's murder was substantially, if at all, about race. But I don't think Tony Timpa is good evidence for that one way or another. The fact that a white person has experienced a similar injustice to a black person doesn't mean that the black person's problem wasn't caused by racism. Timpa's death is an excellent refutation of the idea that racism is the only or even a good explanation for police brutality, as well as a very revealing commentary on how the news reports events depending on how much racial angst they can wring out of it.
We need to get past this knee-jerk assumption that an interaction becomes "racialised" the second two people with different skin tones are involved. It's built on the exact same stupidity that all racism is built on.
"I won't turn this into a discussion about Asian women, but I will say that SC lost a ton of credibility with expressed belief in that myth."
😄 His credibility was already shot by that point for me. But yes, I hate this myth too. In fact, I hate all these myths that are founded on mind-reading and weak correlations. Even if I'd only ever dated Asian women in my entire life, there is no reason to assume that I'm attracted to them because of some fantasy of subservience.
More importantly, it's racist to assume that they're all subservient because they're Asian. What if each of those women had been particularly assertive, as many Asian women obviously are? So often I find that people who accuse others of racism for things lke this don't realise that the racism is happening in their own minds.
I don't think George Floyd 's murder was substantially, if at all, about race. But I don't think Tony Timpa is good evidence for that one way or another. The fact that a white person has experienced a similar injustice to a black person doesn't mean that the black person's problem wasn't caused by racism. Timpa's death is an excellent refutation of the idea that racism is the only or even a good explanation for police brutality, as well as a very revealing commentary on how the news reports events depending on how much racial angst they can wring out of it.
We need to get past this knee-jerk assumption that an interaction becomes "racialised" the second two people with different skin tones are involved. It's built on the exact same stupidity that all racism is built on.