Deplorables temper tantrum against Hawaii

Hawaii's Attorney General  Doug Chin successfully won the lawsuit to stop Donald Trump's immigration restriction from 6 Muslim-majority nations.

Now, there was a #BoycottHawaii twitter campaign from Donald Trump's supporter.

The silliest one came from Philip Schuyler

Philip Schuyler‏ @FiveRights

Hawaii, what do you know? You were 5,000 miles from 9/11. You run your little world and let the grownups run the mainland.

Here's my response to that Deplorable Correctness garbage

Pablo Wegesend

March 15 at 8:55pm · Honolulu · 

"(QUOTE)"Hawaii, what do you know?
You were 5,000 miles from 9/11. "(UNQUOTE)"

Fool, the Pearl Harbor attacks happened in our backyards. We have relatives who were nearby on that fateful day!

And you know what? We now allow our Japanese population to thrive. We even elected them as our governor, senator, and state legislators. They're the majority of our public school teachers. We allow Japanese business people and tourists to come to Hawaii!

You know why? Because we know that the sadistic Japanese military rulers of the WW2 era DO NOT represent the average Japanese person.

We moved on from the Pearl Harbor attacks a long time ago! If we can do that, then you have ZERO excuse to continue pimping 9/11 to promote your racist BS!

In other words, time for deplorables to GROW UP and STOP BEING VICTIMS!

Being  traumatized by 9/11 is NO EXCUSE for racist hatred and stereotype!

Mature adults can be traumatized by terror attacks AND still believe in treating everyone from every nation as individuals instead of members of groups!

Mature adults can be traumatized by terror attacks AND understand that not every Muslim/Middle Easterner/etc supported those attacks!

Mature adults can be traumatized by terror attacks AND acknowledge that stereotyping and profiling based on ethnicity is wrong.

Mature adults can demand that terrorists be brought to justice AND want everyone else from the same ethnicities to be left alone!

This "I'm traumatized by 9/11, now I'm going to hate all Muslims/Middle Easterners/etc because I'm mad & scared" is immature horse-trash! It's bad enough coming from a middle schooler, but it's much worse coming from an adult!

If Hawaii can be mature about its Pearl Harbor trauma, then it's time for the continental USA to grow up and start mature about its 9/11 trauma!

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Meanwhile, the #BoycottHawaii hashtag doesn't bother people in Hawaii, in fact, we want to Trump deplorable supporters to stay away from our islands.

http://elitedaily.com/news/politics/trump-supporters-threaten-hawaii-boycott/1827418/

https://mic.com/articles/171415/conservatives-are-boycotting-hawaii-over-trump-s-muslim-ban-hawaiians-are-fine-with-that#.i3ZCEBmlZ

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2017/03/17/why-trump-supporters-boycotthawaii-movement-is-backfiring.html

Trump deplorables try to scare us by saying they won't spend their $$$ on us! 


We can get our $$$ elsewhere.

In fact, I'll say that if Hawaii becomes independent, we can attract foreign tourists who don't want to put up with US travel restrictions!

Who the hell wants to come to a country where they'll be harassed by authorities on arrival?

So it's Donald Trump that's a danger to Hawaii.

Time for Hawaii to become independent!

That way, we can stop with this silliness of being afraid of Muslims/Middle Eastern tourists!

That way, we can start doing advertising campaigns in India, Indonesia, and the Middle East to encourage their people to visit and do business here!

Imagine some of the Dubai $$$ coming here! We could use it!


Imagine having more Turkish, Egyptians, Nigerian and Indonesians coming as tourists, exchange students and entrepreneurs.

Imagine tech executives from India investing their $$$ in Hawaii.

Time to diversify the groups of foreigners visiting and investing here!

While I respect the North Americans, East Asians and Australians who make up most of our tourists and foreign investors, it will be GREAT to have more variety of people visiting and investing here!

We can also add other foreigners that scares the deplorables : Latin Americans.

Let's get more Mexican, Colombian, Peruvian, Chilean, Brazilian and Argentinian tourists here!

And when Cuba starts to embrace capitalism more, we can get Cubans to experience a different type of tropical paradise! 

Let's have more Spanish speakers walking around Waikiki and doing business deals on Bishop Street


And if that scares the Trump's deplorables  --- GOOD!

It's not like these white nationalists would even like being in Hawaii anyways. 

Hoops, There it Is!

Again, I battle the hate-filled extremists who want cultural segregation.

We're talking about the Phony Justice Warriors who rant against "cultural appropriation"

These Phony Justice Warriors who rant against "cultural appropriation" are The Epitome of venting recklessly!

A recent example involved 2 Latina activists  Alegria Martinez and Jacquelyn Aquilera, both of whom attend Pitzer College. Both stated that Anglo women should stop wearing hoop earrings (which are popular with Latina and African-American women)  because it is "exploitation" and "never yours to begin with".

http://www.dailywire.com/news/14236/racist-pitzer-college-students-just-told-white-elliott-hamilton
http://reason.com/blog/2017/03/10/pitzer-college-ra-tells-white-girls-to-s
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445611/campus-email-white-girls-stop-wearing-hoop-earrings-cultural-appropriation

But the hoops earrings did NOT start with Latinas.

The earliest hoops earrings that we know about came from the Sumerians who were living in what is now Iraq thousands of years ago.  Romans, Greeks and Vikings (all of them Europeans: white people) wore those hoops earrings too!

But Alegria Martinez and Jacquelyn Aguilera who preaches to "white people" to "learn your history" about "white oppression" sure didn't learn the history of hoops earrings.

my screenshot of Alegria Martinez's facebook post, with annotation added via Jing

And a few months earlier, Helin Jung, had an article on Cosmopolitan (since deleted online) complaining about Victoria's Secret using Asian styles in their fashion show, as if it was just a bunch of "white people" "stealing" Asian styles.  Without regard to the fact that one of the designers involved was Arpana Rayamajhi (who happens to be of Nepalese ancestry).

http://www.nowtolove.com.au/fashion/fashion-news/was-the-victorias-secret-fashion-show-racist-14478

So it it was Helin Jung that disrespected Arpana Rayamajhi, not Donald Trump or Steve Bannon!

screenshot from Helin Jung's LinkedIn page

with annotations added via Jing

And Katie Kloss got some heat for a photo shoot wearing a kimono, as if there's supposed to be cultural segregation going on!


But here's a video from a woman who grew up in Japan, and noted that many of things we associated with Japanese culture actually started somewhere else

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVvKcOYdpc4

Too Much Reality for some to handle!

Vent Strategically, Not Recklessly

Being a part of a historically oppressed group doesn't  and should not exempt you from facing aggressive pushback when you say "I don't trust white people" or "I don't trust men".  If you want to be respected, you have to respect others!

People need to learn to vent strategically instead of venting recklessly. It's part of being an adult.

On my posts (on blogs and facebook), I aggressively criticize the racist, anti-immigration fear-mongering of people like Donald Trump, Ann Coulter, Jeff Sessions, Steve Bannon and Tomi Lahren. I note their double standards. I defend their victims.

But you don't see me calling people "crackers","honkies", "whiteys", "rednecks" or "f------- haoles".  

You don't see me saying stuff like "you white people will never understand", or anything like that.

Though when one European-American said on facebook he didn't understand why people focused so much on Trump's racial slurs, I just told him "if you were on Oahu were living on its westside, or living in the prison yard of Halawa or OCCC, you'll be ultra-sensitive about people using the word "haole" real quick!"

You see, I just reminded that there are places where he doesn't have the privilege, I didn't say "hey, stop whitesplaining to me" because that doesn't help him learn anything!

On to gender,  I called Donald Trump a "racist rapist" on facebook. I aggressively criticized other celebrity rapists like Bill Cosby, Jameis Winston and Ben Roethlisburger. I defend a woman's right to excel in any profession she chooses. I defend a woman's right to express their sexuality and I deplore people who call them "whores" or "sluts" for doing so!

You can do all of that without saying "I don't trust men", "men will never understand" or "men are pigs"

Some call that "tone policing".

I call that acting like a mature adult! 

As an adult, you have to be beyond acting like some angst-ridden teenager who vents recklessly! 

Even if you're a teenager reading this, you have to start practicing your vents strategically!

Martin Luther King vented strategically! He was bold in the face of racist injustice. He demand equal rights!  But he DID NOT say "white people will never get it" or anything like that!

Nelson Mandela vented strategically. He was bold in the face of racist injustice. He demanded equal rights! But he DID NOT say "white people will never get it" or anything like that!

Oprah Winfrey experienced racist and sexist injustice while growing up poor in Mississippi and Tennessee! She experienced abuse that nobody should go through! But she doesn't say "men will never get it" or "white people will never get it"! She doesn't say "men are pigs" or "whites are the devils". Instead she uses her shows and magazines to help people develop empathy and respect for each other. 

Everyone experiences hurts.

Suffering in silence harms your soul.

So you have to vent against injustice!

But you have to vent in a way that invites people to understand you! 

Saying "men are pigs" or "you got white privilege, you'll never understand" isn't going to help with that!

Now, sometimes venting might hurt some feelings. Make sure it is something like

• this person is a racist because he said or did this
• this person is a sexual predator and is lowlife scum

NOTICE that those statements are focused on an INDIVIDUAL

if it is focused on a group, it has to be a group based on beliefs or behavior, for example

• I hate the KKK because they want to hurt non-white people
• I hate Al Quaida because they commits acts of violent terror

Notice that those statements did NOT express hatred of any racial group! They only expressed anger of groups people chose to join for the purpose of hurting people. 

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This one woman who talked about "not trusting men" also happened to be the same exact woman who was upset that people didn't take anti-white racism seriously! I  reminded her that I was the one defending her against those Fake Justice Warriors, and that her comments about "not trusting men" were just like the anti-white racism she experienced in Hawaii.

She then apologize but also accused me of "not understanding" what men put women through!

Excuse me? 

Because I don't agree with anti-male sexism, I'm accused  of "not understanding" what men put women through!

I read TONS AND TONS AND TONS AND TONS of articles about the abuse women receive from abusive males.

That woman's problem is that she DOESN'T  UNDERSTAND that any human (especially adults my age, which she is) need to learn how to vent strategically, not recklessly!

Her anti-male sexism is RECKLESS!  It DOES NOT  make people more sympathetic to her pains, it makes them LESS sympathetic to her pains.

If you want respect, you have to show it!

Those who were abused are not exempt from that!

And this "not understanding" nonsense totally reminds me of this Asian-American classmate who said he hated Polynesians because he was bullied by them!

When I objected to his racist comments, he accused me of .............[drumroll please] ......."not understanding" what he went through!

He said "if that happened to you, you would understand"

Understand?

Does that guy even understand what it's like to grow up as Latino in Hawaii when most of my peers are of Asian or Pacific ancestries?

But you don't hear me expressing racism towards Asians, Polynesians, Europeans or whatevers who bullied me!

It's because I vent strategically, not recklessly!

I know what it's like to be different from others around me! I know what it's like to be bullied? I know what it's like to be humiliated in front of others! I know what it's like to grow body hairs earlier than my peers! I know what it's like to live in ghetto neighborhoods! I know what it's like to be grow up being told to not go certain areas because "you might get robbed"! 

I understand pain, hurt and trauma!

But I also understand that one should vent strategically and not recklessly!

I get angry at stuff! I get angry at people! But I do it at the individual level! I get angry at people as individuals, NOT AS members of groups!

I understand people should just be judged as individuals!

So it is STUPID and RECKLESS to hate a person just because of what somebody else did to you! 


You want understanding?

How about understanding others?

Stop viewing other races as "monsters" out to get you!

Stop viewing all males as rapists, perverts, "mansplainers"  and sexists!

Start learning about the humanity of those who are the same ethnicity as those individuals who bullied you!

Start learning about the humanity of those who are the same gender as those individuals who abused you! 

It's not about "privilege" or "tone policing".

It's about growing up! It's about maturity!

It's about making your community and the world a better place!

Or as Rodney King once said "can we all just get along?"

Insane in the Explain!

Too many people use the word "mansplaining" and "whitesplaining" to deter disagreement when they are unable to effectively use logic, reasons and evidence against disagreement.


Dictionary.com defines "Mansplaining" 

(of a man) to comment on or explain something to a woman in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner. 

UrbanDictionary.com defines "Whitesplaining"

The paternalistic lecture given by Whites toward a person of color defining what should and shouldn't be considered racist, while obliviously exhibiting their own racism.

People don't like to be questioned about their experiences by someone who hasn't lived such experiences. That's understandable. I'm sometimes defensive when people who haven't worked in a school talk about stopping student misbehavior when they haven't dealt with that real life pressure of doing so with all  the rules and regulations school staff have to follow. But still, people have a right to question what school staff members are doing!

Being a part of a historically oppressed group doesn't exempt you from experiencing assertive disagreement.

Being a part of a historically oppressed group doesn't exempt you from having your logic and reasons questioned by others.

Being a part of a historically oppressed group doesn't exempt you from being told that you're wrong when you are wrong!

Being a part of a historically oppressed group doesn't exempt you from being told your side of the story isn't the whole story!

Being a part of a historically oppressed group doesn't exempt you from facing aggressive pushback when you say "I don't trust white people" or "I don't trust men".  If you want to be respected, you have to respect others!

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On facebook, one Asian-American woman who moved to Hawaii from the continental US, has verbally pushed back against a European-American complaining about anti-white discrimination in Hawaii. 

The Asian-American accused that European-American of "not understanding the hardship of minorities" JUST BECAUSE SHE MENTIONED she faced taunts and threats for being European-American.

Nevermind that same European-American woman had plenty of facebook posts expressing solidarity with non-whites suffering from discrimination locally and globally.

But the Asian-American implied that the European-American was "whitesplaining" just for defending her right to be upset about anti-white racism.

I noticed the verbal bullying that the Asian-American woman was committing and I jumped in to defend the European-American woman!


The irony is that that same  Asian-American woman who did NOT grow up in Hawaii was trying to "mainland'splain" Hawaii's social fabric to me. Excuse me, I grew up here, YOU DIDN'T!

So who 'splaining now?

This was after that same woman was preaching to a European-American woman (who also came from the continental US) about how she didn't understand "white privilege" is affecting Hawaii!


I told that Asian-American who accuses people of "whitesplaining" that the European-American woman she was arguing with had more knowledge of Hawaii's social environment! 


That Asian-American woman main experience in Hawaii is at UH (mingling with people whose academic credentials allowed them to go there), taking classes from politically correct professors, and hanging out in hippie/vegan circles (which ironically have more "white people" than any of my social circles).


Whereas the European-American woman actually worked in a public school located in a mostly Native Hawaiian community. She worked in a school system whose staff is DOMINATED by Asian descendants, especially the Japanese! 

(in other words, the European-American woman had more experience dealing with Hawaii's general public than the Asian-American woman who only hang out in UH  &hippie/vegan bubbles)



This Asian-American woman who came from a mostly white state, preaching about white privilege talked about how "whites control the land" in Hawaii, whereas the European-American noted correctly that major landowners included Kamehameha Schools (which operates an elite private school specializing in Native Hawaiian students, and also own tons of lands near UH and other places), Office of Hawaiian Affairs and Department of Hawaiian Homelands

I also noted the Japanese owned tons of land too, though I forgot to mention the notorious Gensiro Kawamoto. I mentioned the Japanese owned tons of stuff in Hawaii back in the 1980s, back eventually owned less due to the declining Japanese economy in 1990.  (anyone in Hawaii in those 2 decades will remember TONS of newspaper editorials about that issue)


Then the Asian-American's  Latina friend (who is also NOT from Hawaii, so she can't speak for me) claimed that "white privilege" is alienating "locals" from Ala Moana and Waikiki, which made me laugh, because their business model is SO VERY REVOLVED around Japanese tourists! You try getting a job there without speaking Japanese, good luck with that! 


(that same Latina woman, who I never met in real life, also like to accuse men who disagree with her of "mansplaining". The funny part - when she mentions that "woman get stigmatize for farting in front of their family", I told her straight up - when I was growing up, my dad would get mad if me and my brothers didn't leave the room before farting. So whose gender'splaining now?) 


The Asian-American woman also claimed "white privilege" in Hawaii because the military owned lot of land in Hawaii. The European-American woman pointed out correctly that doesn't count because military members can be of any race 

(in fact, Collin Powell first claim to fame was being the HIGHEST RANKING PERSON in the military back in the early 90's - the Gulf War era. Yes, even the most racist white military member had to salute a Jamaican-American guy and kiss his rear).  I also pointed out that some of European-American veterans are living as homeless in Hawaii. I guess they didn't get their benefits of "white privilege"


The same Asian-American 'splained to the European-American woman that many ethnic minorities live in poverty, NEVERMIND that the same European-American woman also struggled with poverty, struggled in her college years (without the benefit of minority scholarships). Also ironic it was the Asian-American woman who had the PRIVILEGE of growing up in a stable family, whereas the European-American woman grew up in an abusive home!  (in other words, it's the Asian-American woman who has to check her privilege)  Let's not forget, family structure has higher correlation with poverty than race! 

It was also ironic that the Asian-American woman claiming that so many nonwhites are poor, when many of her race living in Hawaii's middle class suburbs (ie Mililani, Pearl City, Moanalua, Makiki, Manoa, Kaneohe, East Honolulu), and the irony is that the one school with sizable low-income East Asian population happens to be my alma mater:(McKinley), giving me more experience being around low-income East Asians than most local East Asians who live in the suburbs!


And talking about McKinley High School, I acknowledged the controversial statue, but statues don't really do anything but exist. Most of the school's teachers (as well as the students) are of Asian ancestry, and that whatever racial tensions exist there is due to rivalries between Asian & Pacific Island groups. 


And talking about McKinley, he only has a school and a statue in Hawaii. King Kamehameha (who used violence to conquer his rival's territory to take over all of Hawaii) not only has a statue and a school named after him, but also a shopping center, a long highway, and a holiday. 


I also noted the state's power structure included the police (plenty of Native Hawaiians including the recently "retired" chief) and the state legislature (mostly Asians). 


Add to that, I never lived under a white governor until I became an adult. George Ariyoshi, John Waihee and Ben Cayetano were the governors I grew up under.


And of course, our Congressional representatives since statehood included Japanese (Dan Inouye, Pasty Takemoto Mink, Mazie Hirono, Coleen Hanabusa) and a Native Hawaiian-Chinese (Daniel Akaka)

So it was the Asian-American woman that was disrespecting the nonwhites who rose to power.


That's without even mentioning this half-African guy who was born in Hawaii (sorry Kenya), went to Punahou  (so-called "haole school") and became US president! 


Talking about Punahou, I also mentioned that the school, as well as Kaiser and Kalaheo, are pretty much the only high schools were "white privilege" comes even close to existing on the social hierarchy, but even then, many of those "white kids" have nonwhite friends there.  Niu Valley Middle School (which mostly feeds into Kaiser though some also go to  Kalani) was where I was working at, and even the white jocks and white skaters were treating their Asian & Hawaiian peers like family! If you got picked on there, it's usually because you're seen as a "nerd", "wuss", "kiss ass" or "gay", and the only ethnic taunting I heard was a Native Hawaiian boy teasing a Tongan girl. 


AS for schools, as I mentioned earlier, the Asians (but especially the Japanese) are the majority of teachers and administrators.  Yes, in Hawaii, a student's formative years are spent being under the control of Asian-Americans.  You get a scolding, you get an F, you get it mostly from an Asian-American here! You get sent to the principal's office, it's usually an Asian-American you have to deal with! Imagine growing up like that if you're not of Asian ancestry. That's my reality growing up!  Yes, I work in the school system and if I'm in the class, you'll finally get a non-Asian getting your case! As for other authority figures on campus, the campus security tend to be mostly Polynesian (that's who going to be yelling at you if try to cut class).

I had to tell that Asian-American woman all this because she claim "people of color can't be racist because racism is about power, and white people have all the power in Hawaii", which is so stupid, as you can tell by reading everything I wrote!

And I told that Asian-American woman that her own racial group's position in Hawaii is so similar to the Jews & Irish in the continental US. Yeah, the Jews & Irish faced lot of discrimination in their early years in the USA but they are a MAJOR PART OF THE ESTABLISHMENT NOW! The same is true for Asian-Americans in Hawaii. This isn't the 1940s!


Also, we come to find out that the European-American woman lived in Hawaii than that Asian-American woman! So yeah, I told that Asian-American woman that "(the European-American woman) has more knowledge of Hawaii's social environment than you!" 

Since then, she kept her 'splaining (and her lectures about "whitesplaining") to herself!

Don't think being a "person of color" is going to protect you from being called out for BS! You can't play the guilt trip games on me!