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Columbia student writes oped saying ASIANS should march with Black Lives Matter

http://columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2015/11/20/asian-americ...
arrogant police squad mother
  11/21/15
lol @ "misogynoir".
sienna native party of the first part
  11/21/15
"columbia is not necessarily better than yale." ri...
disgusting dingle berry
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Diverse church
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"It is egregious that I still need to reiterate this ti...
Talking theater
  11/21/15
closed-mindedness
disgusting dingle berry
  11/21/15
Egregious millennial trolling.
fragrant flatulent church building
  11/21/15
terrible writing
Diverse church
  11/22/15
Sanctimoniousness, utopianism Perhaps most fittingly, Mil...
Vigorous Cobalt Range Rigpig
  11/22/15
"As an Asian, I experienced the same brutality at the h...
swollen new version death wish
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french rebellious potus tanning salon
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Excitant fuchsia abode
  11/22/15
"This is not to say that some Asian communities are not...
french rebellious potus tanning salon
  11/21/15
Is there a word for an Asian house negro?
outnumbered bistre station
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Bateful Fishy Filthpig
  11/21/15
UVT coined "Uncle Chan"
disgusting dingle berry
  11/21/15
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arrogant police squad mother
  11/22/15
he got it from r/asianmasculinity, a forum full of lame azn ...
salmon mood wrinkle
  11/22/15
"chigger"
fragrant flatulent church building
  11/21/15
Asian-American reptile here. I do NOT stand with BLM.
drab know-it-all famous landscape painting
  11/21/15
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arrogant police squad mother
  11/22/15
oh, man. imagine some hardscabble couple coming over from p...
Boyish navy cruise ship
  11/22/15
"people who look like the people who left a bullet in y...
mewling coldplay fan
  11/22/15
gooklivesmatter?
aphrodisiac codepig
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aquamarine newt
  11/22/15
why would anyone care what a college freshmen thinks? those ...
Burgundy dopamine
  11/22/15
"As Sofia Petros-Gouin, CC ’19, pointed out in her incr...
Diverse church
  11/22/15
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aquamarine newt
  11/22/15
pic of the author lol http://i.imgur.com/i2ODD0I.png
Citrine chapel goal in life
  11/22/15
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aquamarine newt
  11/22/15
the one with the bleached blonde hair
Citrine chapel goal in life
  11/22/15
Kelvin Ng needs to be raped by a big black cock
Pale quadroon
  11/22/15
here is his most recent fbook update. 1. Asian Americans ...
Citrine chapel goal in life
  11/22/15
What a good lil brainwashed house chink
Effete Crackhouse
  11/22/15
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1415144817&ref=br_rs
Pale quadroon
  11/22/15


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Date: November 21st, 2015 7:23 PM
Author: arrogant police squad mother

http://columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2015/11/20/asian-america-address-anti-blackness

I am Asian-American. I believe that Black lives matter.

It is egregious that I still need to reiterate this time and again. In light of recent events at the University of Missouri, Yale University, Ithaca College, the University of Kansas, and many other universities across the country, it’s clear that we need to collectively confront the everyday racism—anti-Black racism in particular—that pervades institutions of higher education. While it may be tempting to detach ourselves, as Barnard and Columbia students, from events occurring at other universities, we need to acknowledge the fact that Columbia remains a hostile space for students of color, especially Black students.

As Sofia Petros-Gouin, CC ’19, pointed out in her incredibly salient op-ed, Columbia is not necessarily better than Yale. Columbia is not necessarily any more inclusive than Mizzou. We are not above this conversation.

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Although the Columbia community has certainly taken steps to further this conversation, I worry that the voices of our school’s sizeable Asian-American population are missing from it. As an Asian-American student at Columbia, I benefit from and am complicit in the perpetuation of these oppressive structures. Recognizing this was an intensely uncomfortable but necessary process. While I am marginalized and I experience racism in certain ways as a person of color, there is no denying that my experiences are not at all comparable to the oppression that Black people face, from police brutality and mass incarceration to discrimination in education, housing, and employment.

Within my first three months at Columbia, I have borne witness to numerous incidents of anti-Black racism. The tone policing and respectability politics on display in the comments section of Spectator’s coverage of Thursday’s Blackout rally, for one, demonstrate the denial, invalidation, and antagonism that students of color face daily on this campus. Similarly, when a Black student found the courage to discuss her personal encounters with marginalization on this campus in a public forum, she was met with a barrage of comments attempting to deny the validity of her experiences and to perpetuating the narrative that marginalization somehow does not exist at Columbia.

This sort of dismissive racism (and, specifically, misogynoir) manifested itself yet again this week when the women’s basketball team mocked Black female bodies by stuffing pillows in their shorts and twerking. Black students are routinely surveilled, stopped and frisked, and accused of “suspicious activity” on this very campus. As an institution, Columbia participates in the systematic oppression of Black communities—until last year, Columbia profited from the inequitable imprisonment of Black bodies. One cannot look at these incidences and deny the prevalence of anti-Black racism at Columbia.

This is not to say that some Asian communities are not just as affected by white supremacy. For example, South Asians and Middle Easterners experience disproportionately high rates of violence due to Islamophobia, while Laotian, Hmong, and Cambodian communities are disproportionately affected by mass incarceration. And much like African Americans, Asian Americans have been erased from U.S. history lessons, segregated in military units and ethnic enclaves, and displaced from our home communities. So, even as a Malaysian-Chinese individual, I can certainly empathize with the struggles of the Black community.

Even today, the model minority myth that triangulates East Asian communities, South Asian communities, and Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities is incredibly damaging to the liberation struggles of the latter communities and the mental health and educational opportunities of Asian-American students. By stereotyping Asian Americans as apolitical and high-achieving, the model minority myth maintains white supremacy, flattens the diversity of Asian-American identities, and undermines solidarity among marginalized groups. It also advances anti-Blackness by forcing minorities to assimilate and conform to impossible standards of white respectability. The exoneration of a Columbia student who was accused of assaulting an Asian-American student in 2013, for instance, is an example of how the model minority myth has continued to affect the way Asian American students are seen on campus.

But the liberation of Asian Americans from white supremacy is inextricably tied to the liberation of all oppressed groups. For example, Asian Americans have benefitted from the Black-led Civil Rights Movement. This includes the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which protected Asian-American voters; Loving v. Virginia, which ended all bans on interracial marriages; and the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which enabled the migration of more than 10 million Asians to America. Furthermore, there is a long history between Asian and Black liberation movements—Yuri Kochiyama, Barnard alumna Grace Lee Boggs, BC ’35, and other Asian-American activists were part of the movement to support Third World liberation, to create the field of ethnic studies, to demand Black and Japanese American reparations, and to end the war in Vietnam. Columbia, too, has a rich history of anti-racist activism involving Asian-American students organizing with other students of color, with the Columbia University Concerned Students of Color Protest in 2004 and Stop Hate On Columbia's Campus in 2006 coming to mind.

Given this history, apathy is not acceptable, and the Asian American community at Columbia needs to do more for Black students. We need to hold ourselves accountable as both oppressors and allies; we need to listen, prioritize, and learn from Black voices in anti-racist activism; we need to acknowledge, at once, the common ground and the unique specificities of our struggles. We need to challenge anti-Blackness unconditionally, and support Black lives unconditionally.

I, an Asian American, stand in solidarity with the Black community because I refuse to be instrumentalized by white supremacy in the perpetuation of anti-Blackness. Conversations within the Asian American community need to focus not on assimilation into a racist framework, but on dismantling these very power structures by actively working with other students of color. There is a long history of solidarity between Black and Asian communities, and as Asian Americans, we have benefitted and continue to benefit from the work of Black activists. Given the fact that we owe a great deal not just to the centuries-long struggle of African Americans, but also to Black intellectuals, radicals, scholars, and activists, it is not just natural but absolutely vital that we respect and reciprocate the struggle and sacrifices of the Black community.

I am Asian-American. I believe that Black lives matter.

The author is a Columbia College first-year with prospective majors in history and anthropology.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29227174)



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Date: November 21st, 2015 7:31 PM
Author: sienna native party of the first part

lol @ "misogynoir".

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29227219)



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Date: November 21st, 2015 8:06 PM
Author: disgusting dingle berry

"columbia is not necessarily better than yale." right - even at columbia, you're in danger of reading an incredibly softly-worded, apologetic, reasonable email from a developmental psychologist about how it might not be good for colleges to place a lot of restrictions on what sorts of halloween costumes people should wear. that could happen there too, potentially. so you'd better protests about it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29227423)



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Date: November 22nd, 2015 2:49 AM
Author: Diverse church



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29228988)



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Date: November 21st, 2015 8:12 PM
Author: Talking theater

"It is egregious that I still need to reiterate this time and again. "

How do you describe the type of sentiment in this sentence? It seems like most millennial write this way

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29227454)



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Date: November 21st, 2015 8:14 PM
Author: disgusting dingle berry

closed-mindedness

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29227464)



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Date: November 21st, 2015 9:11 PM
Author: fragrant flatulent church building

Egregious millennial trolling.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29227781)



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Date: November 22nd, 2015 2:50 AM
Author: Diverse church

terrible writing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29228990)



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Date: November 22nd, 2015 4:29 AM
Author: Vigorous Cobalt Range Rigpig

Sanctimoniousness, utopianism

Perhaps most fittingly, Millennialism in some sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennialism

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29229076)



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Date: November 21st, 2015 8:15 PM
Author: swollen new version death wish

"As an Asian, I experienced the same brutality at the hands of the police that too many African Americans are familiar with. It was several years ago, when SWAT CAME INTO MY HOUSE, DISRESPECTED MY WHOLE FAMILY."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29227471)



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Date: November 21st, 2015 8:18 PM
Author: french rebellious potus tanning salon



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Date: November 22nd, 2015 3:39 PM
Author: Excitant fuchsia abode



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29230859)



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Date: November 21st, 2015 8:18 PM
Author: french rebellious potus tanning salon

"This is not to say that some Asian communities are not just as affected by white supremacy. For example, South Asians and Middle Easterners experience disproportionately high rates of violence due to Islamophobia, while Laotian, Hmong, and Cambodian communities are disproportionately affected by mass incarceration."

JFC libs. Asians are massively underrepresented among the prison population (because they commit fewer crimes). LJL at pointing out the 2-3 absolute bottom barrel subgroup asian communities (the ones hated by all other asians) as some sort of proof of your group's struggles with the white supremacist penal system.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29227492)



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Date: November 21st, 2015 8:23 PM
Author: outnumbered bistre station

Is there a word for an Asian house negro?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29227533)



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Date: November 21st, 2015 8:34 PM
Author: Bateful Fishy Filthpig



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29227607)



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Date: November 21st, 2015 8:34 PM
Author: disgusting dingle berry

UVT coined "Uncle Chan"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29227610)



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Date: November 22nd, 2015 2:48 AM
Author: arrogant police squad mother



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Date: November 22nd, 2015 3:43 PM
Author: salmon mood wrinkle

he got it from r/asianmasculinity, a forum full of lame azn dorks like uvt who hate whitey and pretend they are really close with their afro-american brothers in the racial struggle

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29230881)



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Date: November 21st, 2015 9:12 PM
Author: fragrant flatulent church building

"chigger"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29227787)



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Date: November 21st, 2015 8:44 PM
Author: drab know-it-all famous landscape painting

Asian-American reptile here. I do NOT stand with BLM.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29227658)



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Date: November 22nd, 2015 12:57 AM
Author: arrogant police squad mother



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29228703)



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Date: November 22nd, 2015 1:03 AM
Author: Boyish navy cruise ship

oh, man. imagine some hardscabble couple coming over from pre-boomtime china, opening a business in a ghetto, getting fucking jacked and shot at by the local population, and then your faggy kid - who went off to fucking COLUMBIA in what you had believed was a great success for the family - ends up calling you a racist for daring to observe basic facts about your environment. and then he goes off and does faggy marches with people who look like the people who left a bullet in your collarbone during a robbery in '97.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29228725)



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Date: November 22nd, 2015 3:42 PM
Author: mewling coldplay fan

"people who look like the people who left a bullet in your collarbone during a robbery in '97."

They're not Korean, you bigot.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29230877)



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Date: November 22nd, 2015 2:50 AM
Author: aphrodisiac codepig

gooklivesmatter?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29228989)



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Date: November 22nd, 2015 2:50 AM
Author: aquamarine newt



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Date: November 22nd, 2015 2:56 AM
Author: Burgundy dopamine

why would anyone care what a college freshmen thinks? those people are mental retards as far as I'm concerned

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29228997)



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Date: November 22nd, 2015 2:56 AM
Author: Diverse church

"As Sofia Petros-Gouin, CC ’19, pointed out in her incredibly salient op-ed,"

LOL did julia write this? we should post more college newspaper pieces here just to make fun of the writing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29228999)



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Date: November 22nd, 2015 11:55 AM
Author: aquamarine newt



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Date: November 22nd, 2015 1:54 PM
Author: Citrine chapel goal in life

pic of the author lol

http://i.imgur.com/i2ODD0I.png

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29230181)



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Date: November 22nd, 2015 1:54 PM
Author: aquamarine newt



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Date: November 22nd, 2015 1:59 PM
Author: Citrine chapel goal in life

the one with the bleached blonde hair

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29230223)



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Date: November 22nd, 2015 1:55 PM
Author: Pale quadroon

Kelvin Ng needs to be raped by a big black cock

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29230193)



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Date: November 22nd, 2015 1:55 PM
Author: Citrine chapel goal in life

here is his most recent fbook update.

1. Asian Americans have benefitted from the Black-led Civil Rights Movement; this includes the 1965 Voting Rights Act which protected Asian American voters, Loving v. Virginia which ended all bans on interracial marriages, and the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act which enabled the migration of more than 10 million Asians to America. We owe a great deal not just to the centuries-long struggle of African Americans, but also to Black intellectuals, radicals, scholars and activists;

2. The liberation of the Asian American community from white supremacy is inextricably tied to the liberation of ALL oppressed groups. Our conversations need to focus not on assimilating within a racist framework, but on dismantling these very power structures that continue to subjugate Black, Latinx and Indigenous peoples, and rebuking the model minority myth. This necessarily involves confronting and challenging our internalised anti-Blackness;

3. The term “people of color” was coined by Black women in the Black Woman’s Agenda in 1977 (see: http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/03/origin-of-term-woc/), and identifying with the term requires a commitment to challenging anti-Blackness. Appropriating the term without being accountable is erasure and theft of Black contributions;

4. Asian solidarity with Black lives means listening, learning and working with others, holding ourselves accountable as oppressors and allies, centering Black voices in anti-racist activism, acknowledging that Black people are most affected by police brutality, mass incarceration, employment and housing discrimination, educational disparities, etc. and challenging anti-Blackness unconditionally. Black lives matter — that should be enough reason.

“We could all fight together and we must not forget our battle cry is that “They fought for us. Now we must fight for them!”” — Yuri Kochiyama

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29230196)



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Date: November 22nd, 2015 2:00 PM
Author: Effete Crackhouse

What a good lil brainwashed house chink

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29230230)



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Date: November 22nd, 2015 3:37 PM
Author: Pale quadroon
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LJL at this bleachblonde little faggot

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1415144817&ref=br_rs

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3050883&forum_id=2#29230832)