The solution to oppression is never more oppression.
Within the Asian community, we must do deep healing work from the deadly impacts of white dominance, patriarchy, capitalism, and imperialism.
They manifest in and between our communities, and even within each of us.
Asian countries have colonized other Asian countries.
Asians turn away and persecute our own for being LGBTQI.
Asian misogyny and sexist masculinity is deeply embedded.
Anti-Blackness within Asian communities is rampant.
Our entire diaspora is pitted against each other through colorism, capitalist competition, imperialist religious histories of colonization, toxic gender roles and expectations, the list goes on.
It is imperative that we, within our own Asian diaspora, confront the harm we have and continue to inflict upon each other. As countries, as ethnicities, and also as individuals.
Using oppression to try to solve oppression, comes from white patriarchal colonial imperialism.
The solution to oppression is never more oppression.
Oppression includes:
police, surveillance, state violence, prisons, systemic punishment, erasure of history, not naming the actual oppression, divide and conquer, and using oppression to try to solve oppression.
Examine.
Remember.
Confront.
Name.
Build.
Heal.
Community.
Organize.
Comments are closed.