(February 27, 2022 at 3:41 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:(February 27, 2022 at 2:18 pm)Huggy Bear Wrote: Not putting on the cape when there's actually more anti-black hate coming from Asians, hell we have one that's a member of this forum.
Every thread topic is not yours to turn into blacks are treated worse threads. Stop it.
So, I've been following a webcomic called Joe vs. Elan School. It's a true story about a boy who's been sent to what can charitably be called a boarding school in Maine called Elan. I say it can be charitably called a boarding school, but it was closer to a version of the Stanford Prison Experiment if everything that undermined the validity of the actual study was done away with and all the unethical shit that makes scientists wary to repeat it dialed up to 11.
And in one chapter, Joe manages to actually escape the school and he hitches a ride with a trucker. He tells his stories of the Hell he went through (incidentally, this is a place where students frequently arrived by being kidnapped from their homes and dragged to main, could have been subject to a "General Meeting" where they'd berated by the whole rest of their school building for literally ANY reason, and if a student was particularly "ill-behaved," they'd be forced to participate in "The Ring," a boxing match where the rules guaranteed they'd lose by at least a TKO, also, did I mention this shit went on until 2011?) And the trucker tells him his story, of how he and his Vietnam platoon had a terrifying encounter with the Viet Cong that ended in half the platoon getting their throats slit while they slept and he only survived because they were doing a "Kill one, spare one" routine and he just so happened to be the one who got spared.
Why am I talking about this in this particular thread? Because Joe reacts to this story by saying "who am I to complain about the shit I went through when you went through something like that?" And then, the trucker says something that I think needs to be remembered by anyone who went through trauma, or even by any member of an oppressed minority. And I'm going to say them here, though, because one particular word used in the original speech has very different connotations when applied to a black man than a 16-year-old white boy, I will change the wording a bit:
Quote:You stop with that! Stop with that bull. Listen, and you listen good! Don't you never let nobody tell you that you can't be sad 'cause some bonehead somewhere else has been sadder. That's stupid. That's dumb as saying you can't be happy 'cause someone, somewhere else has been more happy. It ain't no contest and don't you never forget that. Never. I heard your story and you were wronged. And them feelings you feel [about how you were wronged], they ain't wrong, okay? They ain't wrong.
Yeah, black people, on the whole, are more blatantly oppressed in America, than Asian-Americans. But, sometimes, Asian Americans have to put up with some bullshit from the same white Supremacist power structure that's been keeping you down. And that's still a bad thing, even if Asians on their home turf (especially if they haven't been subject to anything comparable to the same sort of subjugation black people have been under) can be shockingly racist. And, Hell, if they learn properly from their experiences of oppression, that shit can make them even more sympathetic to Black peoples' plight and less likely to compare them to chimps or call them the N-word.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.