1. It is a problem when POC from America claim solidarity with non-American non-white people in a manner not to provide support, but to oversimplify global oppression as all being from “White supremacy”. Because it leads to blindness about other forms of oppression they may be culpable in (US imperialism, American cultural hegemony, the fact that the US has bases parked all over the world). On a bigger scale, everyone in developed countries or wealthy socio-economic brackets should recognise their privilege and culpability in economic exploitation whether or not they are “white”. I am a diasporic Chinese, and I have seen how diasporic Chinese or wealthy Asians of other ethnicities abuse Indonesian and Filipino domestic workers.

2. Anti-blackness while serious, is not the only form of racism that exists. Plenty of intra-European, intra-Asian and intra-African racism exists, and Americans often obscure this or trivialise these conflicts as “not being about racism, just politics”. We are already being erased- I have been told loads of times Japanese can’t be racist to Chinese because we are both East Asians, when that’s not true. Japanese imperialism during WW2 was very much coloured with Japanese racial supremacy. People think the Bosnian genocide was just “Serbian politics out of control” just because both oppressor and oppressed are European. That “not all racial systems are the same because the USA is not the world” is absolutely essential to debunking this reductionism. In Latin America, people not considered white in the US are absolutely culpable in discrimination against indigenous people, in addition to anti-blackness. In Europe, there is definitely cognisance of a lot of faultlines, and I will say in some ways it is even more complicated than the US because the colorism against non-white people and anti-blackness ON TOP of centuries-old prejudices against various different European peoples, against Jewish people, classism, regional rivalries etc.

3. Also, I dislike how some bloggers go on and on about how much European colonialism damaged us and give so little air time to the most RECENT crimes that need awareness. Yes, European colonialism changed, brutalised and made us who we are today, but decolonisation for the past 70 years happened. So, a lot of very recent atrocities are inflicted by OTHER non-white people with institutional power. The Indonesian massacre of East Timorese, the Rohingya discriminated in Burma, Chinese oppression of Uighur minorities? In the Middle-East, Sunni and Shi’a sectarianism? ISIS? In Africa, inter-communal violence like the Rwandan genocide, separatism between North and South Sudan, the Boko Haram extremists in Nigeria who kidnapped hundreds of school girls? For many ethnic Chinese, the wounds of Japanese war crimes like forced prostitution and the Nanking Massacre (which the Japanese government continues denying) hurt far more than the Opium Wars, and it’d be much appreciated if these things were talked about equally often as how European colonialism oppressed us. And yet a lot of people like to portray us as this happy family, when “POC” solidarity in the US sadly does not quite exist in non-Western contexts.