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The experience of interdependence is nonviolence, peace, an end to suffering. That experience is running headlong into all forms of dominance/subordination/devaluation which lead to violence. We have to remember our humanity, and that others have been dehumanized by these forces.
There are layers. This man clearly devalued Asian women. His violence was an act of domination. He was deeply conflicted about sexual impulses, and felt he had to dominate them by casting them out. The worst of fundamentalist inhumanity to self and other.
On a metaphorical level, perhaps he couldn't relate to his eros. He had to purge it by killing others. Isla Vista was about frustrated sexuality. #atlantaspa is also about desire not being desirable. "Love is unmoving. Only the cause and end of movement."
A Non-Asian PSA:
In light of some of y'all being determined to show your ass in the wake of #AntiAsianHate here is are some tips to help you not do that:
- an appropriate response to someone mourning is "I see you". Center them, not yourself
In light of some of y'all being determined to show your ass in the wake of #AntiAsianHate here is are some tips to help you not do that:
- an appropriate response to someone mourning is "I see you". Center them, not yourself
- Focus on the pain of *Asian people*, not your relationship to *Asian produced objects*. No one gives a fuck about you driving a Hyundai
- Asians have long dealt with being invisibilized yet othered in this country. The hypervisibilty that's happened in the last year is jarring
- Asians have long dealt with being invisibilized yet othered in this country. The hypervisibilty that's happened in the last year is jarring
- Racial bypassing is a thing many of us do that makes us complicit in more subtle forms of anti-Asian violence. Don't be that person who says "This is sad but let's move onto talking about...." because this is you participating in their invisibilizing & complicating them sharing
