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Anonymous asked: People call you ch*nk because they see you (and all East Asians) as Chinese. People call men bitch, people call people from the Middle East sand n-words, people use the slur r*tard against everyone. Just because a word has been leveraged against you doesn't automatically mean you get to reclaim it. Sorry, but as a Korean woman, ch*nk ISN'T yours.

Sorry, but you don’t get to tell me what is and isn’t MINE. I once had a boy scream CHINK in my face while kicking me in my knee twenty times and dislodging my knee cap. I had a group of girls surround me, calling me chink and go back to china all the while punching and kicking and pulling my hair. I got chased all the way home by a group of boys and girls who screamed “kill that dirty chink!” I had an old woman tell me at the grocery store to take my ugly chink babies out of her sight. Where do I stop? I bleed that word. It’s in my nightmares.

Your view is narrow-minded and flat out wrong. You think the hate behind that word is only directed at Chinese people? So if I had said to these people - “Hey, it’s okay! I’m Korean! So you don’t have to beat me up. I’m not Chinese!” they would have stopped? What planet are you from? What self-righteous kool-aid are you drinking? You know what a KKK leader said once? All orientals are chinks and all darkies are niggers.

So don’t be narrow-minded. Go educate yourself please.

  1. frenchfryempress reblogged this from elloellenoh and added:
    Yeah, this is basically my thoughts on the word “chink” being applied to non-Sino E/SE Asians."Chink" is just casually...
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