BwS, Birch is a strange customer. Occasionally something seems to go FUNGG!! in her brain and she starts effing and blinding. I don't think there is any real reason for it, so there's not much point reacting to it. If you're feeling pissed off, why not give the forum a rest for a couple of days, and see how you feel then?
now that is a lie. not true in what was going on with that thread.
the op was spot-on legitimate but it socially and politically ruffled feathers. first, it is rare for racism issues regarding asians to be brought up or almost never in revealing it in some 'cultural' way and that was the problem.
that is what was strange. in that context, the public (forum) are the strange customer. it wasn't considered acceptable and the usual diversions, minimizing and cheap dismissals were in support or reflection of mainstream attitudes.
not once was the racism or against the people in the op addressed by anyone who passed by the thread, not even the moderator because she was too busy repeating racism against african-americans (as if that has never or often been opined on). immediately, it was the usual mainstream response that asians are not the only ones who face discrimination which is actually assinine, because socially they face the most and that is often harder to deal with living in a society which is the point of racism. then another member chimes in, again, with an issue that has nothing to do with the thread. there is ignorance in how racism is exercised by the majority of the public which is not in alignment with white nationalist views. it's about westernism or americanism, not about race but racism will be directed toward those who are percieved as less american. there is this idea that people of darker complexion are the ones who are the target of racism and many other incorrect stereotypes of racism i've heard repeated over on this forum which reads stereotypically. i bet these same attitudes and patterns exist in just about most western countries including australia so the idea that racism against asians is more politically acceptable is not new. therefore, it most likely means most on this forum probably one of those who were racist against asians in school or just don't care.
what is most telling about all of the responses is if it were about blacks or hispanics or even middle-easterners, these diversion tactics or dismissals would most likely not have taken place because it's not pc to do so and even this forum reflects that type of mainstream bigotry.
bws reactions were just a more raw reflection of these mainstream pc ideas of racism and that is generally, no one on this forum is going to target black or brown people that all their problems may not be due to racism but that they are just a loser or failure. notice her repeated responses (like most) did not have anything to do with the topic but he/she was comfortable dismissing the racism because it's pc to do so when it is an asian. no way would she have had posted and brazenly, especially on a liberal/mainstream forum such as this if the topic was racism against blacks or browns. i already knew that.
what was telling was that the issue of racism in the op was not addressed by anyone and the focus was just on the poster but that's also a ruse to minimize racism as well as knowing racism against a certain minority is pc. the thread was not even about whites yet that was the focus by whites. it's psychological. most whites or every white person on this forum would be too much of a coward to start a thread regarding white guilt or racism against whites so instead used thread to berate asians and an asian because they viewed the thread as an opportunity to use it as a competition or their oft regarded more oppressed 'pet' minorities that are never racist of course bs or not pc to acknowledge, so how dare you raise issues of racism against asians mindset.
it's too controversial for most and they are afraid to. also, this frustration of 'white guilt' or framing can't be taken out on minorities with greater representation so it's a sly tactic to punish or belittle asians. but that's the point, other minorities also know this and target asians for being a smaller minority in comparison and therefore having less representation and political power.
you could tell just the plain truth of the op ruffled feathers and made people uncomfortable. that along with whites, the most opined groups of stereotyped as oppressed were just as blatantly, comfortably and openly racist toward an asian and also, that those stereotypes and racist attitudes have been part and parcel all along.