I hope megwrites will forgive me if I jump into this thread and get more heated than I usually like to be, but-- how dare you. How dare you. Those of us who are claiming the histories of our people are talking about these events as ours because they happened to our people, our families, and we're appropriating now? I do not see anyone here trying to erase the role of USAmerican soldiers in whatever atrocities of war we're discussing. By saying this happened to us we are in no way saying that this did not happen to them. But we are saying that the fact that this happened to us matters, that these deserve to be remembered and not erased or trampled upon, and we get accused of appropriating? Appropriating what, our own histories? We raise our voices, and suddenly we're depriving USAmericans of the right to speak?
And what you're implying re: "this was not an anti-Filipino event therefore this is not a race issue" is disingenuous at best and-- hangal, walang-hiya, kamuhi-muhi at worst. That a lot of white USAmericans can and do erase these things -- and encourage others to do the same -- at their leisure, at the expense of the lived experiences of people of color who keep getting told we're overreacting, we're looking to get offended, we're too angry, we're dogpiling, we're not acting like nice rational enlightened adults -- is ongoing reality, not just an artifact of megwrites's framing of this issue. You don't think this is a race issue? That's your prerogative. I certainly do not have the luxury of effacing race from my experience of seeing my history trampled upon by privileged white people.
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Date: 2010-08-09 05:25 am (UTC)I hope
And what you're implying re: "this was not an anti-Filipino event therefore this is not a race issue" is disingenuous at best and-- hangal, walang-hiya, kamuhi-muhi at worst. That a lot of white USAmericans can and do erase these things -- and encourage others to do the same -- at their leisure, at the expense of the lived experiences of people of color who keep getting told we're overreacting, we're looking to get offended, we're too angry, we're dogpiling, we're not acting like nice rational enlightened adults -- is ongoing reality, not just an artifact of