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Oh jeez... heads up: a lot of racism and very vile unhinged shit being described: (seriously, it's gonna make your blood boil if you read this, last warning):
So my older brother is a racial supremacist and hates black and brown people.
And I already know what you're thinking when you hear the term "racist": "must be a white dude in southern rural US"
No, no no no. We are a family of immigrants. We are non-white. We're from China.
The first time I heard about this was like sometime around 2017 to 2020. My older brother was complaining about African Migrant workers living in China... a country he no longer has citizenship status in... because he went through the US citizenship process to become a citizen of a multi-racial immigrant country...
So... to reiterate: a non-white immigrant is complaining about other races in his ancestral country that he has no citizenship in... let that sink in...
Literally "White Replacement" Conspiracy Theory, but replace the term "White" with "Han Chinese".
He complains about ethnic minorities in China "getting special privilages" (aka: "affirmative action") 🧐
So he dislikes CCP, not because of human rights violations against minorities... no no no, not that, but because CCP is "doing too much to help minorities" (in his view at least, whether or not the CCP actually help minorities in reality is a whole another thing)
He believes there's a secret plan by the CCP to replace China with African Migrants because of the population crisis... so he thinks the government just wanna fill up the loss of population with random foreigners...
And he calls black people "cockroaches" that "keep spreading too much" by "having too many kids"
But guess what: HE FUCKING COMPLAINS ABOUT TRUMP BEING RACIST AGAINST ASIANS 🤦♂️ fucking irony lmfao (he's a registered Democrat... I'm pretty sure... supports progressive polities when it comes to wealth, but opposes progressive social policies... so... a social conservative but fiscal liberal??? (is that even a term?)
Dude is so fucking lost into conspiracies, they make my parents look like saints. My parents used to be very prejudiced, but eventually come to be more accepting of multi-culturalism and the idea of living in diversity after spending so much time in the US. And now my mom has to be the one to shut down my brother's bullshit rhetoric he spews in the livingroom.
Oh, also kinda anti-vax about the Covid vaccine, but somehow okay with a tetnaus shot when he stepped on a nail.
And this is this is also the brother that abused me as a child... constantly fighting me... then want to play with me when bored and has no friends to talk to... then wanna fight me and discard me after he uses me.
Seriously idk why he even became a US Citizen...
The only reason he didn't vote for trump (or so he says, it's not like I know what he marked in his ballot) is because he isn't white, had he been born into a white family, he'd totally vote trump.
I'm so glad, I didn't end up being brainwashed by those insane beliefs, jesus fucking christ.
No idea where the fuck he got that shit from... so fucking vile...
But then again, he was abusing me when I was around 5 or 6... he used zipties to restrain me when he deemed me "annoying", played with fire at home, maybe his psycopathy is a gene, maybe a gene that luckily I didn't get? Random mutation?
Idk... my parents aren't even this vile in their worst moments, must be a random mutation. Or maybe its environment. Or maybe the internet's fault.
Every post you make makes me wonder how the fuck you're still alive, my man
The strong sperm won lol
Weird timeline...
I mean I wonder how humanity even survived coldwar...
Heard of Vasily Arkhipov? Stannislav Petrov? What if they weren't there. Someone else was in control?
We's be dead.
How the fuck does humanity even exist. Like dozens of "close calls" jesus christ.
My theory is there are 100s of timelines where humanity nuked itself. 100s of timelines where I was never born, or got kidnapped during that "running away" incident, or got murdered by my brother during a fight, or died of suicide.
Sometimes... I wonder if there's a "plan" for me... if "god" exists... maybe the universe doesn't let me die.
Like some pre-destination thing. Like how in time travel shows, someone tries to commit suicide but it fails because they are alive in the future so its impossible to die in the past. Like Steins;Gate with Okabe. Or like Final Destination where deaths have to happem in order...
it's "not my time to die" yet... so death doesn't let me die till its time.
Just a theory... 🤷♂️
From a quantum theory, wave function collapse perspective, that's as good a theory as any, and it's also one that that personally subscribe to.
Sounds fairly similar to the logic in the Fermi Paradox, IIRC 🤓🤷🏼♂️
Agreed. Seen a lot of his posts around, and Wong Ka Kui feels like an irreplaceable part of Lemmy
It is a common misconception, especially in the US where "white" racism against other groups is so prevalent and extreme, that it is in some way involves or is limited to specific races.
Pretty much every race or ethnic group demonstrates racism against other groups on some level.
Plenty of examples in history where even cultures where everybody is basically the same race, they find reasons to kill each other.
There were hundreds of Mayan city-states, until someone decided to unite them all, and then it was join or die. Sometimes it was just die. They were all the same race, but people like to kill each other, so they invent reasons. We're weird like that.
Absolutely, humans are pack animals from an evolutionary stand point. Our built in instincts are to form groups for protection.
The leveraging of that for profit/socio-political benefit is the real cancer in this. All of it is despicable, but that's a root cause. 🤌🏼
I just want you to know, I hate having to upvote your comment.
Only an American would think racism is a white person only thing. Western racism is nothing in comparison to racism in Asia.
Well there went your credibility
Yeah, the west would never murder 6 million people out of racial hatred in under 4 years.
He's originally Chinese not american, and its fine to find it more common for whites to be racists, because in my experience, they are