I bought some frozen sticky rice wraps from Fairway Market; they're made in Vancouver. Made a quick vid about how I'm unapologetic about eating & using #MSG & how fears of it was based on #AntiAsian #AntiChinese #racism & not solid #FoodScience.

"If the science doesn’t support MSG as a dietary villain, why did so many people come to loathe and fear it? The answer lies not in biology, but in bias. The very name “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome” points to the misconception’s insidious core: it singled out Chinese cuisine (and by extension, Chinese people) as suspect. This framing tapped into old Western prejudices portraying Asian food as unhygienic, exotic, or untrustworthy. As Korean-American chef David Chang observes, avoidance of MSG became “a cultural construct” – essentially a socially accepted excuse to distrust foreign cooking under the guise of health concerns. In plainer terms, it was ignorance and xenophobia masquerading as wellness"

https://www.foodfacts.org/articles/is-msg-safe-should-i-eat-msg-racism-history-of-chinease#

#AsianMastodon #Decolonization #ChineseFood #AsianFood #FoodRacism #CulturalFoodEducation #Xenophobia #ChineseRestaurantSyndrome #AntiAsianHistory #WhitePanic #DecolonizeYourMind #FoodFacts #MoralPanic

Today in Labor History February 5, 1917: U.S. Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Wilson’s veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, it was one of many anti-Asian laws passed by Congress between the 1860s and World War II. However, there were plenty of other xenophobic, nativist and anti-left immigration laws, too. The Immigration Act of 1903 specifically barred Anarchists and epileptics. The Immigration Act of 1882 specifically barred “lunatics, idiots and prostitutes.” The Immigration Act of 1918 and the Sedition Act of 1918 came at the beginning of the First Red Scare. Thousands of Anarchists, Communists, Socialists and labor leaders were arrested, executed, or imprisoned as a result of these laws.

For more, read America’s Long Sordid History of Anti-Asian Violence: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/03/21/americas-long-sordid-history-of-anti-asian-violence/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #antiAsian #xenophobia #racism #immigration #anarchism #communism #socialism #Prostitution #prison

“No Asian Person could be employed in its construction”
This is no surprise given the time (1937), the strong white supremacist links to labour back then (see AW Neill), and the fact it was connecting Vancouver to the rich British Properties that often carried covenants on title banning ownership by Asian individuals (still exist on paper today, but without any legal force).

#history #racism #antiasian #antiimmigrant https://www.threads.net/@cdnhistoryehx/post/DCWk2jYsUiy

Today in Labor History February 9, 1886: President Cleveland declared martial law in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence instigated by the Knights of Labor. The union, which was one of the first to organize workers of different ethnicities, as well as women, was notorious for their anti-Chinese sentiment. They participated in numerous other anti-Chinese riots and supported the xenophobic Chinese Exclusion Act.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #antiAsian #hate #riots #xenophobia #seattle #knightsoflabor #racism #union #martiallaw #immigration #chinese

“For the 1st time since Covid, anti-Asian hate dropped. What's behind the 33% decrease?”

“We don’t have a president saying that the ‘Chinese flu’ has come to the U.S,” one researcher said.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/anti-asian-hate-dropped-rcna121975

#Aapi #Aanhpi #AsianAmericans #antiAsian #Racism

Today in Labor History February 5, 1917: U.S. Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Wilson’s veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, it was one of many anti-Asian laws passed by Congress between the 1860s and World War II. However, there were plenty of other xenophobic, nativist and anti-left immigration laws, too. The Immigration Act of 1903 specifically barred Anarchists and epileptics. The Immigration Act of 1882 specifically barred “lunatics, idiots and prostitutes.” The Immigration Act of 1918 and the Sedition Act of 1918 came at the beginning of the First Red Scare. Thousands of Anarchists, Communists, Socialists and labor leaders were executed, imprisoned as a result of these laws.

For more, read America’s Long Sordid History of Anti-Asian Violence: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/03/21/americas-long-sordid-history-of-anti-asian-violence/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #antiAsian #xenophobia #racism #immigration #anarchism #communism #socialism #Prostitution #prison

The more I think about it, the more pissed off I am about the general lack of concern over #MastodonNZ's #racist & #islamophobic behaviour. They are #AntiMaori, #AntiAsian, and #AntiMuslim.

The fact that folks aren't up in arms about it really pisses me off. No one gives a shit unless they're the target, & since masto.nz is run by #WhiteSupremacists, the white folks on that server have nothing to worry about. Silence is complicit. You stay on that server, you support their behaviour. #DoBetter

https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=V5nKYIf8b-Y&listen=false

#WhatTheFuck?! I've been a fan of #CamilaCabello and had no idea of this #racist stuff

#antiblack and #antiasian #racism #music #musicians

I had no idea!

On May 19, 1975, virtually every shop and factory in New York City’s Chinatown was closed, with signs posted windows and on doors reading “Closed to Protest Police Brutality.”

In April 1975, Peter Yew, a young Chinese-American, asked that police stop beating a 15 year-old whom they had stopped for a traffic violation. For his concern, Yew was savagely beaten right on the spot, taken back to the police station, stripped, beaten again and arrested on charges of resisting arrest and assault on a police officer.

Yew’s beating was the last straw as 15,000 Chinatown community members took to the streets to fight back against police attacks and brutality against their community. The people of Chinatown clearly saw the broader issues, the fact that police repression was coming down in communities all across the United States. This was shown by the slogans raised such as “Fight Police Brutality, Fight all Oppression!”

https://www.facebook.com/100064674191965/posts/pfbid02L5nDZ4G5sUevbu7XSHRNGmhMUL4kRHLWUQ7XQ9Hw1jqCiYLjdskEL67gX8tuomNZl/?sfnsn=mo&mibextid=6aamW6

#racism #antiasian #police #PoliceBrutality #academy #chinatown #NYC