1967: The War on #Vietnam Heats Up — Along With Public Opinion.

According to a 1979 essay by #political scientists Peter Sperlich and William Lunch, “1967 was the year of the hawk.” Indeed, most Americans preferred escalation — likely because they thought doing so would expedite the conflict's end. Meanwhile, preference for withdrawal fell.

Pictured:

Counter protesters show their support for the war during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration in New York City, 1967.
Harry Benson/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

#UShistory #AmericanDissenters #AntiUSImperialism #PeopleForPeace #60s #Humanitarians #AmericansAgainstWar #protestors #VietnamWar #USWarOnVietnam #AmericanHistory #AntiAsianRacism #WarOnCommunism #CommunismParanoia #TheBigRedScare #ParanoidAmericans #Racism #AsianMastodon

Okay, I did write up a whole thing about the uptick in anti-Indian rhetoric among US-based white nationalists since JD Vance got the nomination. I think the writing isn't embarrassingly bad, but I might still be too sick to know (tho I am feeling a bit better today -- thanks to everyone who expressed concern!).

At any rate, Medium calls this a 7 minute read, so if you've got that, it'd be better to read the whole thing. If you don't, here's the highlights reel:

- JD Vance is married to the daughter of Indian immigrants.

- He even went to far as to produce babies with her, thereby tainting the purity of his own whiteness and that of his offspring in perpetuity.

- White nationalists like Nick Fuentes and Stew Peters are none too happy about this, and are now losing their petite minds over the "Indian takeover of American politics".

- This may be a passing thing, but it may not, and there's no reason to assume it couldn't progress from rhetoric to physical violence. (This is not to say that South Asian people aren't already subjected to violence in the US, but rather that this shift in rhetoric has the potential to augment it.)

- It is also an indication of the flimsiness of "model minority" status and the ease with which it can be revoked.

That's the gist, but there's obviously a lot more detail in the essay. Make of it what you will.

#racism #WhiteNationalism #NickFuentes #StewPeters #AntiIndianRacism #SouthAsia #JDVance #Trump #AntiAsianRacism #RedIce #GhostEzra #Whiteness

https://joseph-k.medium.com/an-anti-indian-uptick-in-white-nationalism-e7b15371ac78

One of the reasons for the invisibility of #AntiAsianRacism is inextricably connected to #ModelMinorityMyth. The myth focuses on #stereotypes of #Asians as hard-working, independent, intelligent & economically prosperous.

Stereotypes hide many issues & disappears the realities of working-class #AsianWomen’s lives.

The myth has also sometimes disrupted #InterRacial #solidarity & has been used against #Indigenous, #Black & other #RacializedGroups

https://theconversation.com/the-model-minority-myth-hides-the-racist-and-sexist-violence-experienced-by-asian-women-157667

#AsianMastodon #Racism

I get that China has a SHITTY record on human rights, but hey.. if we're talking about surveillance states and you're not mentioning the Australian police using facial recognition without ANY accountability, or the NSW Police Force use of STMP (Suspect Target Management Plan - a predictive policing 'black list' that is meant to predict people becoming deviant and is literally 50% Indigenous people listed), then you might just be a racist.

#racism #StopAAPIHate #AntiAsianRacism #WhiteSupremacy #AbolishPolice

A #report released Tuesday by The #Chinese #Canadian #NationalCouncil #Toronto Chapter ( #CCNCTO ) & #UniversityOfToronto found that of the 31 participants who took part in their February 2022 #study , a majority reported feeling #WuNai — a Chinese word that means #hopelessness & #helplessness — in the face of prevalent #AntiAsianHate which ranges from #overt #racism to #microaggressions , whether before or during the #pandemic .

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6779764

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On 19 February 1942, by order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten "relocation centers" hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard.

George Takei's childhood as one of the more than 120,000 mass incarcerated was memorialised in the graphic novel "They Called Us Enemy".

#ExecutiveOrder9066 #WW2 #IncarcerationOfJapaneseAmericans
#AntiAsianRacism