we also need to discuss what a single syllable color-like handle for asian we can adopt so as to put an end to this label-based exclusion. it's a rhetorical refusal of cultural citizenship that has gone on for too long because yellow isn't p.c. so how about gold, honey, or peach?
on the flip side, liberals must konw that the best way to really annoy white supremacists is to only speak of them as being from a country of origin by naming them a Brit or German, Irish or Scot, like they love to do for more recent non-European immigrants.
but they won't. liberal race ideology is the one that is obsessed with the color wars. black white brown etc. and they hate asians who disprove their narrative so they haven't even assigned us a color word despite YEARS of criticism that others us wrongly as perpetual foreigners.
racism is real, but the liberal color word hierarchy of oppression and very anti-DEI treatment of specifically south asians and east asians (se asians ignored bc there aren't enough of em outperforming their kids in schools to matter) is what fueled desperate white nationalism.
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any body of rhetoric that uses the phrase "model minority myth" isn't there to protect underperforming minorities though that is what it looks like on the surface.
it's there to suppress + delegitimatize all upward mobility by minorities *regardless of magnitude of achievements*
it is there and was made ubiquitous so relentlessly because asian upward social mobility is terrifying for the mediocre political class that'd like to maintain its position without doing the same amount of work.
so instead, they create castes, locking asians into bamboo cages.
they throw crumbs to minorities, who, despite outnumbering asians, continue to underperform relative to time spent in the country or allowances made on their behalf, using said minorities to spread the idea of the "model minority myth", downplaying pesky high-performing asians.
american media so sterilized that they see a woman who isn't there to entertain them and decide it is a crisis.
intelligent asian women make liberals so uncomfortable that they need to produce devoted antifan commentary complete with indian guests renouncing "model minorities".
as if all american asian excellence in women can be, and thus is, faked.
they can't deny the intelligence so then they gather like hyenas and piranhas to shred the choices.. to.. excel..
as if this doesn't set up asian women to always lose. lose if you lose, lose if you win.
the lack of appreciation for power dynamics is stunning.
what would they rather have? people who aren't model minorities in politics? is mediocrity in politics what we're starved for?
all excellence is model and minority. that's how it works. stop shitting on just asian stars.
this explosion of christian content online feels weird bc my relationship to christianity in youth was primarily in korean in korean america.
yes, there was em, but i've never dealt with ultra-faithful, praying white people. it's jarring. we do not want this running the gov.
church should stay in church. america's a democracy, not a kingdom. it's not a monarchy, and also not a spiritual kingdom. thousands of years after christ, women have human rights now.
give credit where due and acknowledge that christianity was formative for modern human rights,
but the sole governmental narrative driving every policy decision simply can't be so unexamined or exclusively patriarchal w/ no transparency about who's interpreting scripture w/ what training in ways that affect us all. it's incompatible w/ multiculturalism and gender equality.
Talk about making it a problem when someone isn't doing anything wrong. Usha Vance is a failure to the prophesy of feminism because she did not decide to elbow hubby out of the way and become VP herself? How would a smart Indian female VP for Republicans help the liberal cause?
Speaking of which, how and when did Harris as VP represent US Asian female "power" if at all? She got North and South Korea mixed up while standing in the DMZ. She was an embarrassment and an erasure of Asian women, who, even with profiles like Vance's, often prioritize family.
This is why it's so important to know your translations, have experience translating, and to grasp not only the blip on the radar that is being argued, but also much longer historical contexts granularly to put things into perspective for those less learned. Well done, Cambridge!
Some details may be off, but this is what being outclassed in a debate looks like.
The way to respond would've been to acknowlege one does not have relevant expertise to parse linguistic nuances in translation. Losing ground on logic, then appealing to authority is a big no no.
There are moments in the second half where, clearly stretched well past limits of knowledge or context, there is panic followed by random fact diarrhea with no continuity in argument and a bit of a slip in manners. That's where formal experience in debate may have been helpful.
Minting a martyr is stupid bc it creates more homework for others in the containment of what ensues.
We need lists introducing differences btwn translations of the bible into english asap. There'll be an influx of the bibliocurious vulnerable to exploitation.
What a huge mess.
If more youth will now explore christianity, we need guidance directing them to the most scholarly modern translations by faculty of top theological seminaries.
You want them on a scholarly path, not falling into the clutches of charismatic pentecostal megachurches, nar, or wcn.
If you thought misinterpretations of bibles were bad back when people read books critically all their lives, now you will see what happens when young people with no reading comprehension skills to speak of wrestle with milllennia-old blueprints translated imperfectly. Good job.