Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Got privilege?

This makes me sick. A few kids at Fox Chapel Area High School in Pennsylvania created a Facebook group called "Anti-Asians Anonymous" or what they call, AAA. Here are a few highlights in their "Recent News" section:
Pearl Harbor: Our only mistake was stopping at two.

Fix their eyes by using only boiling water and postage stamps.

Another Chinese hideout in a giant bowl of urine. Where'd they go?

First of all, they don't make sense. Second of all, what makes me sick is that them childrens feel so disgustingly entitled that they are comfortable creating a group like this on a public forum such as Facebook. And of course, they say that they were trying to be funny. KKK members all around the world are rejoicing because they see their hopes and dreams reflected in the empty minds of the next generation.



So what is this all about? Scapegoating? Jealousy? Fear? Is the Yellow Peril back? Has it ever gone away? Or is it just plain old white privilege? Are they all thinking: "this is my land and I can do and say whatever the hell I want but all you coloured people better shut the hell up and do as I say?" ...maybe this blog should be called Angry Asian Woman.

Speaking of privilege and a few angry Asian women, we stood in the Spadina streetcar on Saturday night, packed like sardines in 28 degree weather as the driver continued to let more and more people on.

"Move to the back please," she said.

We all tried to move a couple of inches back but there clearly was no room and there was some serious unintentional bumpin' and grindin' as we squished together.

Suddenly, a rather large man gets onto the streetcar and starts making a very loud fuss.

"Oh, COME ON people! Move to the back! What's wrong with you people just standing there?"

"YOU move to the back," my friend said.

"Move WHERE?!" I chime in.

He replies by calling himself a "good citizen" and then calls us and the entire streetcar a collective "selfish shit." He pushes through the middle of the streetcar and stops a couple of inches behind me, realizing that there really is no room and then shuts the fuck up.

Point? I hope he gets run over by a streetcar.

2 comments:

arrivals.departures said...

oh toronto streetcar/bus fun. how familiar. -___-

p.s. i wanna wear your pretty pictures on a shirt!

vee said...

I HATE FAT WHITE MEN WITH GREASY HAIR WHO TAKE UP HALF THE ROOM ON THE STREETCAR AND THEN TELL PPL TO KEEP MOVING. DIE GREASY SNOWBALL DIE!!!!!!!!!


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