If you rail against MRAsians but are silent about #JusticeForYangSong, Yingying Zhang, Johanne Zhangjia Ihle-Hansen, or the countless other victims of racist-misogynistic violence, you care more about saving face than about justice
I detest MRAsians/incels, but who are the real sources of misogyny and violence against Asian women? Who's committing domestic violence, who's instituting glass ceilings, who's committing street harassment, who's abusing sex workers, who's attacking women's right to choose?
The hyperfocus on MRAsian is due to embarrassment, from "activists" who want more than anything for Asian Americans to be good model minorities in liberal America. They fear being seen with the ignorant, illiberal MRAsians more than they want real justice
"I detest MRAsians/incels" was too harsh. Just as incels are the losers of patriarchy, MRAsians are the losers of white patriarchy. Their views are the toxic byproduct of our society and should be dealt with structurally.
MRAsians are too often dealt with using the retributive, "purification/atonement" model of social justice. The drive to disassociate with them rather than dismantle the conditions under which their beliefs are formed is a vanity project.
They're easy targets because they're socially dislocated Asians, so attacking them without examining the real power structure is to reify the very racism you purport to fight.
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