Went into this Clubhouse. Truly one of the most bigoted discussions I have ever heard. A bunch of people basically dismissing and justifying any discrimination that isn’t targeted directly at their community. 
One of the few intelligent speakers on the stage points out that Asian-Americans have also face plenty of discrimination in history including the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese-American internment. Basically gets dismissed and told it’s irrelevant.
The most telling part was one of the girls justifying her ridiculous statements by saying her professor has told her that’s what’s right. It’s rather clear that this neoracism is being enshrined on college campuses and we are worse off because of it.
Really smart girl pointed out that there are clearly some people have tied victimhood to their identity and get offended by the idea that there are other victims. That leads them to excuse violence against others. Have trouble viewing people as individuals.
An Asian girl mentioned the Colorado shooter was Muslim. Other speakers get offended she mentioned that fact and all agreed that they looked up a picture of him and he’s clearly “white”. That was after the moderator demanded to know whether the girl lived in America.
Anyways, I can’t listen to anymore of this. Hate and ignorance aren’t limited to one group or race. Decent people should be able to recognize it and speak out against hate regardless the source or target. And we need more people to view others as humans & individuals.
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