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Jeff Yang

@originalspin

9 Jan

In April, Chinese immigrant Yao Pan Ma was beaten into a coma, allegedly because he’d been mistaken for one of two men, “Korean and Japanese,” who the attacker said had robbed him.

The assault is now a murder. Mr. Ma died last week on New Year’s Eve.
nytimes.com/2022/01/08/nyr…

https://twitter.com/originalspin/status/1480101140440092673

Another reminder, if Vincent Chin wasn’t enough, that “All Look Same” is a major part of anti-Asian violence.

https://twitter.com/originalspin/status/1480101140440092673

https://twitter.com/tinkersmiley/status/1480230485758521344

No. The inability to distinguish between Asians is often just an excuse pointing to a broader climate of anti-Asian bias. It’s not that attackers *can’t* tell; it’s that they don’t bother, because any Asian serves the purpose of being a target for their resentment equally well.

https://twitter.com/tinkersmiley/status/1480230485758521344

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Jeff Yang

@originalspin

3 Jan

@bchesky

@bchesky Not being snarky here: Please launch an initiative to help the immense number of people who’ve been unhoused due to market conditions that AirBnB helped create, and that Covid turned into a crisis.

I don’t know what it looks like. Funding shelter operations? Building tiny homes?

https://twitter.com/bchesky/status/1477764672640073728

@bchesky

@bchesky A 2017 Zillow study showed that homelessness rises in cities where rents exceed a third of the average income, and each median rent increase of $100 increases homelessness by anywhere from 6% to 32%.
zillow.com/research/homel…

@bchesky

@bchesky Other studies have shown a 1% increase in AirBnB listings drives up rent by about 0.02% per month, or an average of $9. In LA, listings have soared over the past few years—LA is the fourth most profitable AirBnB territory in the nation, per your own data.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

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Jeff Yang

@originalspin

31 Dec 21

Bandy Lee said Donald Trump and Alan Dershowitz showed signs of mental aberration. Dershowitz called her remarks unethical “distance diagnosis”—and Yale fired her. Lee’s peers see this as a dire attack on speech. So where are the anti-cancel culturistas?
nymag.com/intelligencer/…

@Yascha_Mounk

Prominent anti-“cancel culture” advocate @Yascha_Mounk did chime in early on: He wrote a lengthy piece for Slate *criticizing* @BandyXLee1. Since Dershowitz’s email that led to her firing, I’ve seen nothing in his feed or public writings defending her academic right to speech.

https://twitter.com/originalspin/status/1476973323770740736

@BandyXLee1

I haven’t seen other Harper’s signers taking up @BandyXLee1’s case either. Not even when prominent voices like @WajahatAli pointed out that Lee is a real case of “cancellation”—a powerful, connected white male getting an immigrant woman of color fired for political speech.

https://twitter.com/wajahatali/status/1375528814424522759

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Jeff Yang

@originalspin

18 Nov 21

Asian Film Twitter needs a non-snipey discussion about Hollywood remakes of Asian cinema.

My possibly unpopular opinion: Remakes are great when they are significantly different from the original—while respecting and paying homage to their antecedent—and we should encourage them.

There’s little merit in being wedded to canon. That’s the attitude fueling the toxic fandoms that infest all too many franchises.

Meanwhile Asian creators constantly mine Hollywood for inspiration (even if their remakes aren’t official)

Lee Sang-il remake of “Unforgiven” 👇

Reflexively hating on every remake just because the original is beloved is an argument for isolating our creative innovation from the global conversation. It also means works with Asian cultural themes can’t be reframed and recast to make opportunity for Asian AMERICAN artists.

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