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Why Are We Seeing So Much Asian Hate?

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In the past year, we’ve seen a dramatic surge in anti-Asian rhetoric and hate crimes against people of Asian heritage. Where is this coming from? The corporate media would have us believe it’s a personal problem stemming from individual bigotry, but the actual source is much more structural. In this episode we’ll explore the history of anti-Asian sentiment in the US and look at the most significant cause of this rash of new Asian hate.

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    @SecondThought July 5, 2024

    Hey everyone! I hope you all enjoy the video. This is such an important topic. We really, really don't need a new Cold War. It will only end poorly for everyone involved. Be sure to check out BayArea415's companion video! They've got a great panel of guests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w47L6QAmgI

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    @lamhkak47 July 5, 2024

    Now, on Chrome, somehow unable to watch this video.

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    @missmimitia228 July 5, 2024

    As a black American i know part of the reason black people dont pike asian people is because they feel like they look down on us and exploit our communities. And there is a huge anti-black sentiment in the asian community. But it is a way to pit marginalized groups against each other. If we hate each other we cant fight systemic issues that affect all of us

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    @degenerationz9284 July 5, 2024

    Cultural enrichers

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    @sm1purplmurderedme583 July 5, 2024

    white ppl rlly hate every race huh😂

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    @mat3271 July 5, 2024

    they send me to the youtube link. TURLY CENCORSHIP FOR RACISM LIKE WHAT?

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    @rinkiakepapa5625 July 5, 2024

    The west is afraid of competition

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    @chaosli9040 July 5, 2024

    View count on this video says it all

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    @user-ip8bw7gt2x July 5, 2024

    not to mention a lot of Asian men started to be with white women since it was the only option

    It started the emasculation of Asian men that continues to today and in the hearts of many western peoples

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    @GumbarLimbits July 5, 2024

    It's bad that China is sending Uygur Muslims to reeducation camps, but it's OK that the US puts immigrants in concentration camps because they crossed the no-no line and that's illegal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111!

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    @sm1purplmurderedme583 July 5, 2024

    now they know how black americans feel everyday lamo

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    @SuperTonyony July 5, 2024

    If humans would stop eating meat, we would not have zoonotic diseases.

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    @j45c July 5, 2024

    Yes America is bad, but that doesn’t mean you have to ignore the things China has done… Even the BBC and Democracy Now (very socialist network) has said what happened is true. You can’t vaguely support a country that causes a genocide just because another country has caused more of them. ): I really like this channel, but this is disappointing, I am Asian American but I can’t stand by China’s actions.

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    @user-gu9yq5sj7c July 5, 2024

    I can't find my comment so I rewrote it.

    Bubzbeauty has a video showing her UK passport cause some people were saying she was faking her accent and that there weren't Asians in Ireland. There's Asian slurs like "yellow f3ver or k1nk". On Michelle Phan's ninja costume video, there was a comment that said Asians should only wear Asian costumes and not a blond European princess.
    China Fact Chasers and Serpentza tries to help China by talking about the problems there, but it has caused some racist comments to stigmatize Chinese people.
    But there's also some people who overhype Japan. Some people call them weebs.

    Why isn't Asian history taught in American schools?

    13:54 Muslim is a religion, not race. Don't libs/leftists usually dislike religion? Also, "we"? Not every American agrees with the American military being sent to foreign affairs, or always.

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    @ChiekoGamers July 5, 2024

    American moment

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    @Blessed_V0id July 5, 2024

    I mean im starting to side with China against US imperialism. After hearing about their peaceful negotiations, its starting to seem a significantly lesser evil.

    I never thought id side with a capitalist…

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    @faranji1809 July 5, 2024

    What an incredibly stupid video. Are you funded by the CCP or just independently dense? Watch the introduction to this video and you’ll see the kind of footage of violence against Asian-Americans that I’ve unfortunately been seeing too much of as an Asian living in New York. Look at the perpetrators in these videos. Notice anything? They’re all black. I know that’s not the sort of thing you’re supposed to notice, but uncomfortable truths are still truths. How on Earth does the Chinese Exclusion Act, wartime propaganda, and a general political atmosphere of anti-CCP rhetoric explain why young black men are assaulting Asian people on the streets in record numbers? If you’re going to make a video about a problem, show footage of that problem, then ask why it’s happening, how about actually making an honest effort to explain why, instead of giving us a half-assed lazy history lesson? I’m sick of the gaslighting. Are people really stupid enough to believe that black men are attacking Asians because of dumb things Donald Trump said?

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    @morsmordre3 July 5, 2024

    The US is making many enemies and the Chinese are making many friends. I wonder why…

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    @vietnamfnf6162 July 5, 2024

    10:05 few or no conditions?
    The conditions are just open your country to be exploited by china

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    @vietnamfnf6162 July 5, 2024

    Capitalism vs Capitalism will be a fight between exploitation of peoples

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    @LarsaXL July 5, 2024

    Companies doesn't want to pay American workers fair wages so they instead go to a poorer country to recruit people who will accept to work for lower wages, and bring them to America.

    American workers gets mad at the Chinese rather than at the companies who brings them over rather than pay fair wages…

    I'll never understand bigotry logic.

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    @Lao_Xiashi July 5, 2024

    Well done piece of propaganda that doesn't address "who" is actually attacking our most vulnerable and why. Goebbels would be proud "Second Thought" 🙂

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    @SnakeAndTurtleQigong July 5, 2024

    Sending love to my brothers and sisters of Asian ancestry!

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    @kuku8846 July 5, 2024

    Thank you so so much for this video. I broke down crying partly through and genuinely couldn’t stop throughout. It’s been a year and yet the anti-Chinese rhetoric is still so strong and it’s absolutely exhausting.

    As a Canadian-born Chinese, I never strongly identified with China. I grew up having Canadian pride instilled in me the same way all nations instill national pride in their children, and if anything, I even looked down on China. It really wasn’t that hard to, when we were so often portrayed as dirty and poor and even brainwashed.

    I definitely internalized some of that sinophobia—and it wasn’t until I got a little older and realized just how sinophobic people could be that I began exploring my own heritage. And what I found there was such a wealth of culture and history, including a long history of enduring against colonization and racism and prejudice and hatred… A history I’m glad you highlighted here.

    Even more immediately, in my own family, my grandparents fought hard in WWII to live better lives, enduring all kinds of difficult circumstances, and my parents grew up dirt-poor before the economic growth of China. And those fascinating stories were all things I didn’t get told about until I was older…

    Which can hurt so much to think about now, especially when thinking about how much people just don’t understand. It’s so easy to paint China as the big bad, the shadowy evil government, the unknowable enemy… And it’s so frustrating for people like me because the thing is, China isn’t that unknowable.

    It’s been open since the 1980s, and besides the shutdown due to COVID, China has always been open for visitation and filming. I used to think this back in 2016, when I first noticed the spike in anti-Chinese rhetoric, and yet it’s only gotten worse and worse over the years.

    Sometimes I’m even afraid as a Chinese person or as an Asian to go outside sometimes, even though for the most part I’m lucky.

    I live in an area that has a lot of Chinese people, and while historically it has also attempted to rid itself of Chinese immigrants, I was able to grow up in a time of the normalization of Chinese—and Asian in general—people being in the community (I began as the only Asian in my class in kindergarten, but as the years went on, more and more Asians have moved in). This means that I recognize the general safety of my community and I do still feel safe in it, but there’s nevertheless this occasional inescapable dread and fear and pain surrounding the rising sinophobia.

    And it’s even harder because I can’t talk about it without coming across to a lot of people like I’m a blind supporter of the evil Chinese government; people immediately discredit you as soon as you show any support for China, which makes it extremely difficult to criticize the normalization of sinophobia or even the current system of capitalism.

    I’m also personally just a very critical person of the concepts of nationalism and especially patriotism in general, so even I myself get hung up on these concerns. While I have gotten more into Chinese media and culture and history, I often worry I’m becoming too much of a Chinese nationalist. It’s hard not to have that worry when you’ve grown up hearing that being patriotic to China is problematic.

    Like I know it’s okay to have some cultural pride. But because of the messaging I grew up with, there’s always that sliver of shame and/or worry I contend with in regards to my Chinese cultural pride.

    Hell, even just seeing the Chinese flag can feel like a trigger for me, because I only ever really see it when it’s plastered all over sinophobic videos that claim “the evil Chinese government did this, the evil Chinese government did that.” And such fear-mongering can often use clips of the Chinese military or government officials standing near the flag, so I can’t disassociate the flag from the “scary patriotism” those sinophobes always criticize China for, hence making the Chinese flag a slight trigger for me. Which is wild, considering I’d never associate Canada’s flag with that.

    It’s especially hard when even us minorities and/or Asians can get really nasty with each other, when really our common enemy should be against the far right, racism, and colonization (and even capitalism, for those willing to accept the system could probably use a cleaning).

    These racist attackers wouldn’t care if you’re Chinese or Korean or Japanese or Filipino etc. As long as you look Asian, they will blame you. I look at the current fear-lingering about China’s economic rise and I can’t help but remember the 1980s and Japan’s economic rise, where Vincent Chin, a Chinese man, was killed by white workers who thought he was Japanese.

    It’s a little funny that my mom used to point out to me that even if I didn’t want to learn Chinese, I still have a Chinese face, which people will see and use to make assumptions about me. She was referring to the idea that I’d be fluent in Chinese, but it’s funnier now—or scarier, perhaps—to know just how true that is. Sometimes your ethnicity is all people see—and it’s even worse when their thoughts on your ethnicity are misinformed, especially by these pieces of media purposefully filled with sinophobic fear-mongering.

    So yeah. I know this comment kind of went all over the place, but I don’t think I can emphasize how much this video means to me. I’ve watched multiple of your videos now and agree with all of your points, but this one was so personal that I genuinely couldn’t stop crying. I was able to stop now while writing this comment, but the emotions still feel like a raw bundle that I usually try to keep a tight hold on in my chest becoming completely unravelled. And it does sting and it does make me emotional, but I’m grateful for it too.

    It’s easy for me to get angry about the sinophobia surrounding me—or, especially these days, to feel frustrated and exhausted over it all. But it’s only sometimes, when other people (especially those that are non-Chinese) show a bit of understanding of the plight that Chinese people and Asians in general currently face, that I feel relieved and hopeful and a little less alone, and I get to let my hurt out like this with grief and sadness over my people’s historical suffering.

    So…in the end, thank you again for bringing attention to this issue and the issue of sinophobia. It’s a nice reminder on why it’s such a big issue—to everyone, but even to people like me, who just occasionally need a reminder that it’s okay to feel upset about sinophobia. ♥️

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    @joepup8348 July 5, 2024

    I think Youtube made this 'Age-restricted" not because of the content, which is not more violent than countless other videos on Youtube that are not age-restricted, and is not racist but actually anti-racist, but because the narrator correctly and decisively identifies the real cause of anti-Asian hate crimes and violence: a century-long smear campaign by the media against Asians as "alien," "villain," and "other," culminating in the current framing of global power conflict in racial terms.

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    @joepup8348 July 5, 2024

    White railroad workers, both native-born and immigrant, were actually paid more than Chinese railroad workers, and indeed thousands of white laborers were hired by railroad companies. Indeed Leland Stanford, pres. of the Central Pacific Railroad–the main builder of the Western portion of the Transcontinental RR–initially refused to hire Chinese workers and was well-known for his anti-Chinese sentiments. Yet Stanford and Charles Crocker, another railroad leader, changed their minds about the Chinese when they saw how hard-working and reliable they were.

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    @joepup8348 July 5, 2024

    Saying that the railroad companies went to China to look for "cheap labor" does make it sound like Chinese laborers 'took' American jobs. In fact, these companies hired thousands of whites, both native and immigrant, alongside Chinese immigrants. But whites typically would work for a while on the railroads and then move on, even though they were paid more than the Chinese and were provided with free housing, which the Chinese were not. There was always a shortfall in railroad workers not because the Chinese undercut white wages but because most whites simply did not want to take these jobs.
    As the Reverend George Pentecost would write in the NY Times sometime later, "The Chinese are thoroughly good workers. That is why the laborers here hate them."

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    @cursedcat6467 July 5, 2024

    “Oh no what would people do if they saw an anti racist video? It would be terrible!”-Youtube

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    @RoderickSpode July 5, 2024

    I wonder what Charles Chua and Vince Dao, will both make of this video?

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    @RoderickSpode July 5, 2024

    Let this be a warning to model minorities who continue to be stooges for WS in Jim crow 2023 Amerikkk.

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    @andreifilip6364 July 5, 2024

    sorry, that PROEMINENTLY placed "Latinos for trump" sign actually made me gag

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    @edwardlegend1564 July 5, 2024

    As a taiwanese, sure it seems that US is a threat to other nations, but really China is a bigger threat to Taiwan, their airforce often invade our country's air space.I appreciate your content, but to paint China as a country having no bad conscience, it's really wrong

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