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Re: Facing Up to Facebook Racism (Score: 1)
by Petal on Tuesday, April 17 @ 07:41:47 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | As a "member of a powerful majority", I feel I have every right to comment. Inverse racism is still racism.
Yes, the Facebook group was racist, sexist, demeaning and disgusting. Yes, there is every reason to get angry about it. Yes, I find it personally offensive as it objectifies members of my gender and treats them as nothing more than sex toys and lust objects.
I was also disappointed and disgusted at the responses that the white man with an Asian girlfriend received. He may have been off-topic, but I fail to see where he was racist. So he looked for a site on the internet to help him understand some of the issues that his partner is dealing with as an Asian American. What is wrong with that? When a Japanese girl joined my class (I go to a predominantly white school in the UK), I found out some stuff about Japan so that I could relate better to the background she was coming from, and I learnt some Japanese so that I could show her a bit of friendship when she was new and struggling with English. I am not sure how that could be seen as a narrow-minded approach.
It seems that the reaction to the white man whose girlfriend happens to be Asian is based purely on racism. Suggesting that no white man is capable of being attracted to an Asian woman without having a fetish and being an insensitive, imperialist racist is just as offensive as portraying Asian women as perfect, submissive exotiques who exist for the pleasure of white men. (Is it known what proportion of the Facebook group members were white? Is it even slightly possible that some of them could have been Asian men?) If this is a site for fighting racism, then some of its members have a very long way to go. Asian-on-white racism is just as repulsive as white-on-Asian racism, and respect is a two-way street. Anybody in their right mind should be at least offended by the existence of that Facebook group, but that is no excuse to foster dislike and distrust of any racial group. I may be a member of a dominant majority, but I didn't ask to be born white, so I would appreciate it if I weren't held responsible for things that have nothing to do with me.
Oh, and "you say that you're from Chicago... there are a lot of racists out there"? If that's supposed to be reasoning, it's infantile. There are a lot of heroin users in the city where I live, but that doesn't make me one. If you want to take issue with something someone says, at least do it intelligently rather than dragging things down to kindergarten level. |
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