Comments on: Racism: There’s No “Reverse” About It

By: LaylasunZahell

LaylasunZahell — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:17:56 +0000

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By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:24:16 +0000

@52 Faces: Ahh yes. Another person that didn’t bother to read the post. Good job.

If you actually read it and looked up the definition of racism? Terming “reverse racism” is just ridiculous since it would literally mean that you’re not racist. That’s like going around saying … hey! I’m reverse-conservative! Using terms like that just shows that there’s an issue with actually understanding English and negations such as some people using the word “ain’t”. Let me put it into another perspective. If the Rodney King incident was racist, and the color of skin was reversed? Would it be reverse-racism? No it wouldn’t. It’d still be a race related issue, which would make it: racism. Period. By definition.

Obviously it sounds like a pity party when someone didn’t bother to read instead of just spouting their own agenda. Maybe it’s just me, but perhaps I’m writing at a level a bit over people’s heads. That must be it. Awesome blossom. Either that or I’m “reverse-asian.”

By: 52 Faces

52 Faces — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:30:00 +0000

I wanted to like this website, especially since my new idol jozjozjoz writes for you guys, but this post smacks of self-hatred in its idealized and very false, “we’re all okay and equal” sentiment. There’s quite a bit of the “keep your head down” immigrant mentality of my parents’ generation, where they pretended that if they just worked hard enough, America would grant them all their dreams and make them equal to white people.

I’m always on the look out for Asian American voices with some semblance of pride. I’m saddened that Ben is so eager to pander to the whitewashed mainstream. He sounded quite like those annoying white people who say, “I’m color-blind.” As if we could ever be – or would ever want to be.

Do you even get why that’s messed up, Ben? Given this post, we’re not so sure.

By: Dick Richards

Dick Richards — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:29:15 +0000

The thing I love about Asian culture – there is no such thing as the Right – the right, not to be offended. I find this particularly common in America. Of course, I mean no offence to Americans. It just seems, confusing real racism and victimhood diminishes real tangible racism.

I refuse to buy into the reverse racism crowd. I was at a punk jam recently and this foul mouth white racist was going off about reverse racism. What a fool. It was right then I decided racism is racism. And, that clown was a racist. It ruined my night.

cheers

cheers,

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By: Xxxtine

Xxxtine — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:07:15 +0000

This is trivial – but knowing the very little Chinese literature that I do the phrase itself is clunky at best. When I first saw it, I was like man, how come it isn’t in a 4 character structure? get rid of the kan (看) and just make it ‘白人不懂’. – now … interpret THAT phrase.

By: J He

J He — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:02:03 +0000

白人看不懂 bai ren kan bu dong can also translate into “white people don’t get it” not
necessarily “white people can’t read this” which opens up negative interpretations.

By: Ella

Ella — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:00:22 +0000

Ben, I found YOUR post amusing, as you seem to not know the term reverse racism. (looking it up on Urban Dictionary doesn’t count.) I think Catherine’s post was spot on.

By: 'mouse

'mouse — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:00:17 +0000

This is funny on several levels:
1) I chuckled when I read the message… since I’m white and could read it.

2) I think the message is not even slightly racist. The actual message, to me, is strongly dialog-provoking anti-racist. To me it says, “if you, person who can’t understand this Chinese (or it could just as easily be Arabic or Russion or Greek, etc.) feel threatened by seeing something unfamiliar, then you need to examine yourself and/or educate yourself.

3) I’d wear that on a t-shirt (esp. since I’m white). It’d be even more amusing with a caption on the back that said “Reverse (v.) Racism!”

Of course, then I’d spend all day explaining one side or the other to one group or another.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:51:15 +0000

Catherine on Hyphen hit it right on the spot imo… I mean, if I saw a “Asians can’t understand this” shirt, I wouldn’t be offended/construe it as racist… but I can kind of see where the student is coming from.. Everyone’s definition of “racism” is different, and sometimes they use racism as a term when they mean something else.