From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: A Flawed Perception? (Re: Mr. Richmond.)
Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 07:21:38 GMT

In article <BxDqqn.2qq@world.std.com> cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
writes:
>The following certainly proves my contention that Rikiya Asano is one of the
>most blatant racists posting to the group. ... You should perhaps make note,
>that before you indulged in your racist diatribe, that you failed to determine>which minority groups _I_ am a member of!! ...

Mr. Asano assumes that Mr. Richmond is white even though Mr. Asano has neither
seen nor met Mr. Richmond.  Mr. Asano and numerous twits in s.c.c, s.c.k,
s.c.hk, s.c.a.a.[1] etc. automatically make assumtions--often crude and
vulgar assumptions--about people that they don't like.  To Mr. Asano and his
s.c.c., s.c.hk, s.c.a.a. s.c.k, etc. associates, the truth is irrelevant;
personal attacks, prying into people's personal lives, conjuring strawmen and
slaying them, etc. are what counts most to them.

>Rikiya Asano <ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>>Mr. Richmond,
>>                  Do you believe that every white person is the same?
>>Why do you insist that racism against Asians in American does not exist?
>>If you were to check out s.c.a.a. you would hear this often.

I don't think that racism killed Henry Lui.  He was Asian-American.
He was living in the United States of America when his killers slew him.
His killers were Chinese, hired by the Chinese gov't on Taiwan in 1984.

I have yet to see Mr. Asano unleash the same fury against the Chinese
on Taiwan that he has unleashed on Americans.

>>... I live it each and every fu*king day. ...
>>I wish that you would say that to my face you f*&king D*ckhe*d!
>>But, I have respect for the American People that's right even your sorry a**.

Please refer to my comment above, concerning personal attacks, etc.

>>... The White American media is often deceiving when it come to racial issue.

Really?

Connie Chung (CBS news), Ken Kashuahara (spelling?) (ABC news), members of the
Association of Asian-American Journalists (?), Terilyn Joe (local anchor
on ABC (?) affiliate), etc. are white?  Arthur Hu (conservative columnist
in Asiaweek and occasional interluder on s.c.a.a.) is white?

I've seen all these people, and I _sure_ that they aren't white.

Remember.  Unlike many Japanese people, many Americans _do_ _know_ that
American != white.  America is a multi-ethnic society.  Many Japanese
people, for some reason, think that America = society composed of only
blacks and whites.

At least, Japanese people do know that Japanese-Americans are Americans.
By contrast, not only do Chinese people think that America = society
composed of only blacks and whites, Chinese people also think that 
Chinese-Americans != Americans.  That really is despicable.

Read my lips.  "Asian-Americans are Americans."

[1] I don't want to say that every on s.c.a.a. is like Mr. Asano and his
associates.  Arthur Hu often appears there.  I strongly disagree with
his views, and I'm sure that he strongly disagrees with mine.  Yet, I have
never done to him, and he has never done to me what Mr. Asano and his
associates like to do.  Mr. Hu maintains an adequate decency level on
s.c.a.a. as do most of the Japanese-Americans who post there.

However, people like Chunde Shi, Wilbur Pan, Dong Peng, Danielle T. Wei,
Dennis Lee, Jeong Shin, etc. (from s.c.a.a.) are very much like Mr. Asano.
I wonder if there's a connection.

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