I know Ka Leo (UH's newspaper) is known for printing ridiculous leftist junk! But very few are as pathetic as today's editorial by Nicole Hsiang which is filled with racial paranoia!
http://www.kaleo.org/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/04/05/4070f42939b9e
I know, I would have to run fast if I see a gang of neo-Nazis, but that doesn't excuse such racial paranoia from non-whites.
Where to begin, where to begin?
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Can there even be such a thing as reverse discrimination? No my friends, that's called justice. To demand equality between the races is like asking a woman to forgive the man who raped her.
MY RESPONSE: That is so stupid! Why should I be mad at some white person who always show respect? How is that like asking a woman to forgive the rapist? Hsiang ISNT promoting racial reconciliation. She is calling for racial revenge!
Can there even be such a thing as reverse discrimination? No my friends, that's called justice. To demand equality between the races is like asking a woman to forgive the man who raped her.
MY RESPONSE: That is so stupid! Why should I be mad at some white person who always show respect? How is that like asking a woman to forgive the rapist? Hsiang ISNT promoting racial reconciliation. She is calling for racial revenge!
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They proclaim that they are not white, but a "human being". I laugh as I say this because they don't see that it is being white that allows them to forget they have a race, while others are forced to be reminded what their color is due to daily discrimination
MY RESPONSE: Try telling that to the white male who was beaten bloody at Waimanalo Beach Park by 3 native Hawaiians. The white man had BROKEN BONES as a result of that beating. Those Native Hawaiians yelled racial slurs to the white man before committing the assault.
Or what about Reginald Denny, the white guy who was dragged out of his truck and viciously assaulted by young black males during the 1992 LA riots? One of the black guys threw a ROCK in Denny's HEAD causing skull injuries. And while Radical Leftists make excuses for those racist black bullies, they NEVER praised the African Americans who saved Denny's life! At least Denny showed grattitude!
Or what about Eminem who was bullied by African American kids for being white while growing up in inner-city Detroit!
And though these were the most vicious incidents, I'm sure whites have been abused in other ways by non-whites. But Hsiang just assumes that all whites spend their whole lives in all white suburbs! Just because a lot of whites live in all-white suburbs doesn't mean all do.
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A black or native person cannot walk through an upper class neighborhood without being perceived as a criminal, but a white person can.
MY RESPONSE: That's true, but does anyone believe for a moment that a white kid can spend serious time in South Central LA, South Bronx, Waianae, Waimanalo, Kalihi or other non-white areas without sooner or later get rudely reminded what race he/she is? That ranges from brutal insults to brutal beatings! Racism is a 2 way street, Ms. Hsiang!
A black or native person cannot walk through an upper class neighborhood without being perceived as a criminal, but a white person can.
MY RESPONSE: That's true, but does anyone believe for a moment that a white kid can spend serious time in South Central LA, South Bronx, Waianae, Waimanalo, Kalihi or other non-white areas without sooner or later get rudely reminded what race he/she is? That ranges from brutal insults to brutal beatings! Racism is a 2 way street, Ms. Hsiang!
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As an Asian American woman I have tried to have discussions with white friends about our racist society and then I will have to explain exactly why and how racism works to my clueless friends
MY RESPONSE: I see it's obvious this person is not from Hawaii! Most local Asians I know are nowhere as race obsessed the Asians from the mainland. Of all the Asians in Hawaii, the most race-obsessed ones are immigrants who go to Honolulu public schools. And most of the conflicts they have are NOT with whites, they're conflicts against Polynesians. In the 1990's, there were Filipino vs. Samoan riots in Farrington High School, and Vietnamese vs. Samoan riots in McKinley High School. But in Hsiang's worldview, whites will get all the blame, even though both high schools have only 1% of it's students who are white!
Meanwhile, Asians from suburban Oahu and the Neighbor Islands are almost never race obsessed. I observe this even in all the social science classes I have been involved with! I assume that they live in a more sheltered world, but they shouldn't be punished for that!
As an Asian American woman I have tried to have discussions with white friends about our racist society and then I will have to explain exactly why and how racism works to my clueless friends
MY RESPONSE: I see it's obvious this person is not from Hawaii! Most local Asians I know are nowhere as race obsessed the Asians from the mainland. Of all the Asians in Hawaii, the most race-obsessed ones are immigrants who go to Honolulu public schools. And most of the conflicts they have are NOT with whites, they're conflicts against Polynesians. In the 1990's, there were Filipino vs. Samoan riots in Farrington High School, and Vietnamese vs. Samoan riots in McKinley High School. But in Hsiang's worldview, whites will get all the blame, even though both high schools have only 1% of it's students who are white!
Meanwhile, Asians from suburban Oahu and the Neighbor Islands are almost never race obsessed. I observe this even in all the social science classes I have been involved with! I assume that they live in a more sheltered world, but they shouldn't be punished for that!
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Everyone, including whites, can use their own experiences to fight racism. And nobody has to feel guilty for it, either.
MY RESPONSE: Hsiang just spent a whole editorial demanding that white INDIVIDUALS feel unearned guilt for injustices other whites have done! Hypocrisy anyone?
About affirmative action (aka Affirmative DISCRIMINATION), let's remember that Asians were victims! That's right, in the pre-Prop 209 Cali, Asians like Nicole Hsiang could get rejected from top Cali universities to make room for blacks and Latinos (even for those with lower academic record than the whites/Asians who got rejected). Me being Latino, I could thumb my noses at Hsiang and say "nanny-nanny boo boo, I got in to (Berkeley or UCLA)". But because I believe in everyone following the same standards, I have to risk being called "vendido" (Spanish for sellout) or "coconut" (brown on the outside, white on the inside). How dare I believe in everyone following the same rules!
Everyone, including whites, can use their own experiences to fight racism. And nobody has to feel guilty for it, either.
MY RESPONSE: Hsiang just spent a whole editorial demanding that white INDIVIDUALS feel unearned guilt for injustices other whites have done! Hypocrisy anyone?
About affirmative action (aka Affirmative DISCRIMINATION), let's remember that Asians were victims! That's right, in the pre-Prop 209 Cali, Asians like Nicole Hsiang could get rejected from top Cali universities to make room for blacks and Latinos (even for those with lower academic record than the whites/Asians who got rejected). Me being Latino, I could thumb my noses at Hsiang and say "nanny-nanny boo boo, I got in to (Berkeley or UCLA)". But because I believe in everyone following the same standards, I have to risk being called "vendido" (Spanish for sellout) or "coconut" (brown on the outside, white on the inside). How dare I believe in everyone following the same rules!
