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My wife and children are Asian. You’re invited to read through my history of comments about having to leave my small town because of racism and where my family felt unsafe.

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TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I’m saying in America, there are literal lynchings right now of black folks. There are lots of white on minority violence… Today.

Yes… But bad things happening here and now does not mitigate the crimes of the past that happened elsewhere. Both should be examples of things that we should be critical of. Being critical of one does not affect your ability to be critical of another, in fact they should serve as supporting examples of why all those behaviors are evil.

Saying one is an overreaction is ignoring the history of Japanese oppression even if that wasn’t your intention. A better route would be to claim that racism in America is not as well discussed as it should be.

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