Many companies are complicit in Israelβs genocidal war against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. All peaceful popular efforts, including boycott and divestment, to hold these entities accountable for their support of Israelβs crimes against Palestinians are justified.
#BDS
i've never doubted that palestine will live.
the US dropped more than 7.5 million tons of bombs on vietnam, laos and cambodia from 1965-75. they destroyed our land, used agent orange, slaughtered villages, separated families, the list goes on.
but we're. still. here.
the united states of america has literally never done or funded anything that wasnt directly beneficial to their own imperialist goals and you should 1000% question any and all movements and narratives funded by the US government
indigenous people are still here. black people are still here. colonized people are resilient. even if you kill our people, ban our languages, destroy our homes, heritage sites and artifacts, we will always find a way to keep our cultures alive and that has always been true
so much of the west and isntreal's tactics and actions are hauntingly familiar to me as a viet person. its a colonizer's rinse and repeat. and so that's how i know palestine will be free. we've seen this film before
i firmly believe that eating disorders would not be as prevalent or normalized if society wasnβt rampantly anti-fat and if we were taught from a young age to have a healthy relationship with food and not to base our worth on thinness/fatness
lmfao this is muted but this tweet is for the selfish ppl who make excuses not to wear masks cause of moral/political reasons. obv if you canβt wear a mask/itβs difficult for you bc of health reasons then thatβs a completely valid reason.
'my family lived under communist regime' no your family lived in a post war, post colonial nation state that was doing its best to recover from starvation, poverty, and general destruction --- all of which was forced upon them by colonial powers
are yβall choosing to ignore the fact that theyβre hosting the olympic games amidst a global pandemicβ¦thousands of athletes are congregating in a city that was just on lockdown bc of covid and then theyβre all gonna return to their home countries
i think so much about how china warned everyone preemptively about the virus and they probably knew that everything would be blamed on them for ringing the bell and they did it anyway as their moral obligation to the rest of the world and the west just didnt give a fuck lol
okay i have a confession
as a european girl i actually find it sorta hot when americans do the whole "america number one, best country" line and act all superior and like they're better than us just by virtue of being american,,,,,,
its really important to keep talking about palestine. part of the reason why the US began the process of withdrawing from VN was bc of mast outrage amongst american citizens, w/ demonstrations lasting /years/ and the exposure of american lies via pentagon papers
π§΅: What is Pan-Asianism?
I've been seeing a lot of Asian diaspora push this idea, so let's get into the historical roots of this movement and how it's Japanese Imperialism logic (spoiler).
Today marks 53 years since the Mα»Ή Lai massacre. I implore people to understand the magnitude of American imperialism, and that this event was not an isolated or unique instance of brutality but a regular occurrence. The American War in VN has a civilian death count of ~2 million
the orientalist views about north korea is so bad like yall know that the only people restricted from traveling there are americans and south koreans right...and with good reason
would i get jumped if i said i feel like a lot of the people who are being really loud about voting for copmala are of the privileged class and therefore not even really in touch with reality about whose "rights" are at risk
π§΅: Tran To Nga is a Viet-French journalist who is making history in her lawsuit against American companies who manufactured Agent Orange, a defoliant that was used during the American War in Vietnam.
as a viet person just thinking abt my parents and family as little kids during the american war too....the way you all talk about ppl from the global south is so evil and how u only "care" abt them when they can tell sob stories that reaffirm american saviorism and exceptionalism
if we're gonna talk about not romanticizing french people as revolutionaries, i think that should also extend to the obsession with the guillotine as a symbol of class revolution. the guillotine were one of the violent tools that the french used to punish its former colonies
i think asian diaspora gravely misunderstands what the model minority myth is,..itβs about being complicit in white supremacy and reinforcing racial capitalism, not literally being βquietβ and βsubmissiveβ
if theres one thing i want people to understand about the vietnam war, its that the americans literally tried to commit genocide against the vietnamese people. which is why i will forever be disgusted by bootlicking vietnamese diaspora
iβve seen a lot of viet am liberals try to explain why so many viets support trump and the answer really is as simple as youβre all the descendants of reactionary catholic bourgeoisie
its actually very weird to see people post about the asian hate crimes but at the same time spread imperialist propaganda about china and north korea...
If Vietnam is socialist, why does it allow houselessness?
If Vietnam is socialist, why does it allow landlords?
If Vietnam is socialist, why does it allow rent?
before u rag on chinese celebrities for supporting china why donβt u give that energy to any american celebrity who has ever said they loved this country. cause i thought we were neither beijing nor washington π€£
i think its super important that monterrey park is a chinese (those ethnic & culturally) enclave and i think just generalizing it to asian really avoids the root of the issue, which is anti-china and anti-communist war mongering
- copaganda
- plot is weak with as many holes as spot
- movie is mainly held up by franchise references
- "π΅π· is part of america" π€’
- overworked and mistreated team resulting in visual and audio inconsistencies
sometimes i think about how fucked up it is that anti-imperialists have to have complete libraries and encyclopedias of information at the ready to combat narratives touted by people who got all their information from a wikipedia page
its really disappointing how asian american started out as a political identity (NOT CULTURAL) and now it's just capitalism and enabling right-wing ideology and giving platforms to racists and misogynists because they're "asian too" π€£
ChΓ o mα»«ng ngΓ y giαΊ£i phΓ³ng miα»n nam! π»π³ I have many thoughts today but mainly that today is a day of celebration, not just for Vietnamese people, but for all the colonized people of the World π
ΔΓΊng lΓ mα»t ngΓ y lα»ch sα» của thαΊΏ giα»i.
running the anti-semitism narrative is so shameless and insidious bc part of why shitrael exists is bc europeans didn't want jewish people in their own countries...but western savior complex strikes again and yall just let urself be indoctrinated by the imperialist war machine
i hope yall know that a key part of yellow peril rhetoric is the idea that chinese people will 'take over' the world or invade our countries if they're not stopped lol stop spreading this shit and using southeast asia to do it
when asian people do better than yts, then it's cause they're doping bc there's no other way we could outperform europeans and when black and brown women do better than yts, suddenly everyone cares about "unfair biological advantages"
the holocaust being framed as a uniquely evil act of violence in history for americans and itβs in partly bc they can recognize the victimsβ humanity bc of the dominant narrative that the only victims of the holocaust were white jewish ppl
oh brother this is going into anti-chinese territory πnon-east asians like filipinos, viets and south asians also make up a huge chunk of the educated middle-class asian americans jsyk
do the east asians, especially the chinese, really think this decision is going to help southeast asians get into universities? pacific islanders? do they even think about places other than east asia?
like just specifically re: vietnam the main character syndrome is so bad with diaspora cause do they really think that they were the only ones who suffered after the war?? ppl r still trying to diffuse the bombs that the amerikkkans left in vietnam to this day
i hate the stoic abusive cold immigrant parents tropes. it stinks of western chauvinism to frame white parents as inherently more kind and nurturing than nonwhite immigrant parents
thinking that we can reclaim desirability and patriarchal gender roles as feminism really set back gender liberation at least 50 years and ppl that think that ur sexist for critiquing ppl who promote the trad lifestyle bc its a 'womans choice' are so evil π
i love love love the revival of communist style propaganda art in vietnam in order to combat covid19 and encourage people to keep each other safe...i think about them quite often
everyone should live by disability justice because the crux of it all is that everyone deserves to live and be taken care of. thatβs the principle that has liberated me β no matter my desirability, ability to produce, or physical/mental states, i deserve to be cared for
aoc and bernie sanders is where revolution goes to die ....
u cant be a socialist if u align urself with the colonial settler state and uphold european countries that exploit the global south for its welfare system
u will genuinely feel so much freer when u unlearn ur anti-fatness and ableism bc then u will realize that ur inherently deserving of love and respect and happiness for simply existing. no terms and conditions. we canβt all be thin or beautiful or able bodied forever
ngΓ y giαΊ£i phΓ³ng makes me reflect on the freedom our countrypeople fought for and how we take that for granted. i can travel to my homeland freely. i can go north to south without borders or checkpoints.
palestinians, koreans and so many others don't have these privileges
besides that, are we just gonna ignore that the olympics are a big white supremacist scheme that reinforces western exceptionalism, displaces native residents, gentrifies cities, etc etc ππ
sorry @ that little girl but itβs not gonna get any better ur gonna spend ur whole life in limbo chasing after something that was stolen from you from birth π
whenever someone wants to get on here and talk about east asians being the only big evil bad guys in the asian american community i just remember that a literal viet refugee was the director of ICE
man i just get so upset when american politicians want to get involved in global south business but then literally ignore literal genocide in this country
i mean i know why but its so frustrating to see people eat it up
comparing china to the us is really gross and ahistorical ...like people genuinely forget that china is also a victim of colonialism and imperialism ://
everyone trauma dumping on my tweetβ¦like yβall are so lost and canβt see that your personal experiences and hardships are tied to larger systems of oppression. mental illnesses and conditions are 1000% exacerbated by the white supremacist and capitalist society we live in
may is already over but idc my
#aapi
hot take is that "support asian businesses" was such a ridic fake movement co-opted from black ppl cause why would asian-americans need to build capital when we have the highest median income in USA by racial group
why do u ppl say "southeast asia" like its one country and not a region made of 11 independent states with their own histories, governments, cultures and interests
the amerikkkan arrogance and superiority complex is actually killing me as if the global south doesn't also live under the threat of western brutality and policing whenever they resist
i am simply thinking abt all the asian diaspora outraged rn and i am wondering how many of them have ever put down nail salon and massage parlor workers in their mind, ever made us the butt of their jokes, ever distanced themselves from us bc they dont wanna be /those/ asians