Currently Listening to: Ice Cube – It Was a Good Day
But really, it wasn’t. I’m kind of pissed right now. Anyway, AngryAsianMan posted this a couple days back and I read it but kind of just brushed it off when I read it, but this is FAR more serious than the Tufts Incident I posted about on 8asians.com
A couple links:
Facebook Event regarding the issue
I’m not going to write a lot about this stuff, because a lot of what I wrote about about what happened at Tufts still applies, but if anything, it clearly shows that it becomes more than an isolated incident and very much still a societal problem across the United States, in the sense that a) so many people were willing to vote down a position dedicated multi-culturalism (for the same reasons, I’m assuming, that people want to shut down diversity groups) b) that racism is the motivation for some of the things people do (If I vote down a position right before I call someone a “dog-eater”, I voted for reasons on race.) and c) racial slurs and stereotypes remain one of the most harmful and disastrous… things… in the world. WE KNOW IT IS WRONG. YOU KNOW IT’S WRONG. RACISM IS WRONG. That’s why there is such a backlash against such an outburst. I mean if it’s going to explode across the board, it must be really really pent up in those people. What’s worse, it probably means that there are more people who can control themselves/ are sensible but share the same beliefs.
BTW, this could be backlash for the shootings that happened a few weeks back, but it could just be a coincidence.
