Sidney Alcantara

This is a bit out of left field for me, but I kept seeing Reel after Reel condemning the “Wasian meetups” happing in NYC and SF, which expanded to condemning “Wasians” and was like … wtf??

So this is me trying to make sense of it all

#culture #wasian

https://open.substack.com/pub/sidneynotsydney/p/the-wasian-discourse-is-weird-as?r=ad91b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The Wasian discourse is weird (as an Asian Australian)

Asian Americans can find shared identity in more than just infighting and their inherent privilege

Sidney, Not Sydney
May 21 at 12:20amWeb
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@notsidney

❝ But to suggest that the term itself intentionally centres Whiteness or is a “symbol of White supremacy” quashes this distinction, and, in fact, erases the Asian identity it refers to.

thank you for putting words to the feelings I've been having about this phenomenon.

when you get to the discussion of energy spent on critique rather than organization, it reminded a lot of this Gladwell piece in the New Yorker about strong ties vs. weak ties: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/10/04/small-change-malcolm-gladwell

Small Change

Why the revolution will not be tweeted.

The New Yorker