Asians new fad fear

The BBQ Pit
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So, it turns out there are fears of racist retaliation on the campus of VA Tech for yesterday’s murders.

I’ve heard the same thing going on at my school. Koreans, hell, Asians in general, talking about classmates calling them terrorists, supposedly in jest. Asking if they were carrying guns. Well, I, for one, am glad that the shooter was of Asian-descent. Way I see it, it’s about time the Asians were persecuted so thouroughly; after all, it is their turn.

I mean, for the longest time, and to this day honestly, it’s been the stereotype that blacks were the ones to fear. Stay out of their neighboorhoods, especially at night. All of your stuff will get stolen. They’ll try to sell you drugs, then kill you the second your back is turned. Don’t ever go there at night. Ever.

Then, after the Colombine shootings, everyone was afraid of teenaged white boys. Anyone in a trenchcoat was suspect, any white teenager with few friends was to be treated as hostile, and likely to kill everyone in the room at the drop of a pin. No idea what they’re bringing in from their grandfather’s arsenal, so best to keep constant watch.

Then 9/11. And the belief that every Muslim everywhere hates America and wants to destroy it. That every practicing and non-practicing Muslim, every Arab, Persian, Pakistani, even Indian has the potential to be carrying a bomb under their clothes. That the only way to be safe is to exclude them as much as possible from society.

So its about time, really, that we got around to Asians; our race-based fear equality is now almost totally complete. Now they get to feel what its like to be watching out of the corner of people’s eyes all the time, to have folks wonder just when they’re going to go off on everybody around. All we need is an sarin-gas toting Jew and maybe a Latina with a machete, and we’re complete! Everyone is afraid of each other, watching their backs against every race that isn’t their own.

:rolleyes:

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He’s not the first:

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American Schools Outsource Shooting Sprees To Asia: Campus Cites Greater Productivity, Lower Costs.

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Hmm. I’m not entirely sure what your point is, nor if my comment is directly related. But I can tell you that when the Chinese took our spy plane my Chinese SO was treated quite badly by many, many people, some of whom were his coworkers. I know people are creatures of the moment who react to what’s happening right away.

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Don’t forget this guy!

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Well, I know someone I’ll definitely be seeing in Hell one of these days! :wink:

-Joe

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Moody Loners With Handguns Lobby Congress For Foreign Labour Restrictions.

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The quoted article doesn’t mention any incidents of racist retaliation at all, only fears by Koreans that it may occur.

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Well, I’m moody.

-Joe

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This was the article on my Onion page-a-day calendar today. Victims Sought In Next Week’s Shooting. It was a morbidly funny coincidence.

Can I interest anyone in my Six Shooting Sigma (abbreviated 666) management plan?

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I think his point is that when people get frightened or are otherwise under stress, they revert to primitive, xenophobic bigotry as a default response. It’s a sad state of affairs, but that’s humanity for you. On one hand, you get Shakespeare, Michaelangelo, and Louis Armstrong; on the other, you get fascism, ethnic clensing, and The Turner Diaries. It would be nice if we could sift out the bad and keep only the good, but it seems to be built in, or at least perniciously socialized.

Stranger

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I could see the Onion doing an article like “Diversity Initiative Among Mass Murderers a Success: Police Profilers Screwed”.

It used to be all about the white man when it comes to this stuff. Got four bodies and some crappy letters - look at the white man. Wonder who is coming to work with an AK-47 tomorrow? - look at the white man.

As a white man myself, I was tired of all the suspicious looks and the thought of shear terror in people’s eyes as I looked at them (but not directly). Remember the DC area snipers? Everyone assumed that was a crazy white man too and nobody really questioned it. Turned out is was a black man and a black teen locked into some kind of weird love-murder duo that only they understand. So now we’ve got black, Asian, white mass murdered covered to mix things up.

Who am I supposed to be scared of now? An albino tryting to make his mark for his people (or her people: gotcha)? The Da Vinci Code ad that as a theme so maybe. Anybody else I need to watch out for?

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I vote for charming old ladies who bake nice cakes and keep cats.

Or possibly the New Reformed Different (AND HOW!) Order of Jain Monks.

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TheOnlySaneOne I fucking doubt THAT… :rolleyes: , like I SHOULD have said to my Dad… It doesn’t matter what nationality/race/religion/whatthefuckever he was! He was a human, a fucked up deluded human! You want to present this to further your small aims? Fuck you.

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Why are people so bloody STUPID? Ugh. We need another Flood.

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…Which was EXACTLY my point.
Oi. Irony is a lost art, I suppose.

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if6was9, the problem is that so many people do not see it that way.

TOSO, I grokked your post immediately. It’s not even just race. There’s probably not one postal worker since 1993 who hasn’t heard at least one “joke” about their profession. But race/ethnicity is always the first thing people seize on.

November 22, 1963: “Dallas police have a suspect in custody.”

“Please be a white guy…please be a white guy…” “Please be a Gentile…please be a Gentile…” “Don’t be Italian…don’t be Italian…” “Don’t be Mexican…please don’t be Mexican…”

ETA: I don’t recall the Pit moving this fast since 9/11.

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Sorry, SaneOne. I’ve come to expect the worst… :frowning:

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Then you must take care to be VERY wary of sausage makers. Oh, yes. :smiley:

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Gender Researchers Claim Friendless Gun Nuts “Glass Ceiling”: Calls For Affirmative Action As Women “Lag Behind” In Violent Rampages.