r/AsianAmerican is toxic for hapas

ambwftw · 8時間前

It's toxic for full Asians too

Oxman1234 · 9時間前

That sub is pure apologist detritus. It was the first Asian related sub I came across and I was banned pretty quickly and not even for anything objectively offensive, crude or anything. The liberal SJW mods there simply ban you if you disagree with their ideology. I don't even think the mods of that sub are all Asian American. They subscribe to the kumbaya, Asian American issues second mentality that is so rampant in today's liberal "activism"

SandeeCheetah · 7時間前

It's a relatively inactive sub. No one posts there and daily page views are only a fraction of what we see here.

If recent trends (that are the primary focus of discussion in this sub) hold steady, Asian America will be hapa America in a generation or two anyway.

My main issue with the moderation of that place is that they attempt to distance themselves from hapa issues most of the time (ER, Holtzclaw, relationship talk), but then immediately try to take credit for hapa successes only when it suits them (actors landing roles, Olympians, Nathan Adrian etc.), without giving due credit to their mixed background. They also give short thrift to full Asians who have paid their dues, especially if it doesn't fit their "narrative".

For example, I remember they highlighted an article profiling "Asian American" Olympic athletes, all overwhelmingly hapa, while "conveniently" overlooking the ping pong and badminton teams, of which every single athlete was 100% fully Asian.

gangstametapod · 7時間前

Asianamerican is toxic for everyone - that's why it's been fragmented off into other smaller subs so many times

SandeeCheetah · 7時間前

And wanted to add. This (r/Hapas) currently is the largest and most active Asian American subreddit. This is confirmed by the data. This should be stated in this sub as much as possible so that Google places us near the top for anyone googling an "Asian" Reddit forum for discussion.

charli3chaplin · 5時間前

The mods are AFs dating white guys

Proof: https://np.reddit.com/r/asianamerican/comments/2opnhu/why_i_hesitate_to_name_myself_an_ally_of_asian/cmq5vcb/?context=3

whatwronginthemind · 5時間前

They shadowbanned me for talking about the Asian American targeted crime spree in Sacramento.

I live near Sacramento, been to the community that was targeted multiple times (good banh mi) and thought I could add some more details to the discussion.

Naw. Shadowbanned.

I got them to normally ban me too after that.

Still pretty funny since one of the subreddits that I'm a headmod at /r/interracialdating is on their sidebar lol

Octapa · 5時間前

Pretty much every post actually worthy of discussion gets locked and hidden.

I find the comment/post hiding the most distasteful part of their modding. Instead of confronting the issue, or even deleting it, they'll just hide certain views from everyone else as to somehow "protect" the innocence of their viewers. WHat a patronising way to treat Asian Americans. It's shit like that makes AA's look weak and impressionable.

Hotfire-Coldice · 8時間前

They only allow articles to be posted, no discussion text posts which are way more interesting. All hapas are shadowbanned. They defend wmaf. They are far left which is as crazy as far right.

ianAlex68 · 7時間前

r/aznidentity is pretty good. Yeah, I know they're hateful and fucked up, but their goals align with our's, and I think they should be our allies. Despite their flaws.

r/asianmasculinity is pretty lousy. I thought it would be a site or uuhhhh subreddit dedicated to asian male heroes throughout history, but it's just a bunch of folks complaining. There's not really alot of celebration of asian male heroes, mostly just complaining.

Namisaur · 4時間前

I haven't been in the asian subreddits for long, but I do have to agree. r/asianamerican was the only asian-related sub I ever visted in my entire time on reddit before I found /r/hapas and the other subs last week.

It didn't leave a good impression seeing as how I never visited it again nor did I ever seek out any asian-related subreddits ever again till recently.

On the other hand, /r/hapas has a lot more anger and hatred amongst the users than most subs I visit, but the thing I like about this sub compared others is that even when there's someone you really dislike visiting, making posts, and making highly disagreeable comments here, they don't just instantly get banned and posts removed ( I think. Don't prove me wrong here ). There's a lot of good discussion here and I'd daresay it's probably the best asian-related sub, although it's a bit more focused on certain topics and possibly has quite a bit more catfighting going around haha.

MayanJade · 7時間前

I've been pretty lucky there so far - but I'm fully aware of everything OP has pointed out. The fact that I post here will probably get me shadow banned the next time I post/comment anything there.

I started a thread there once about full-blood Asian vs hapa in media - like should full-bloods plays Hapa characters and vice versa? I got some interesting responses and the commenters seemed pretty reasonable. If you search for "hapa" threads, I'm sure this thread will pop up - if anyone's curious I'll post a link.

I got a PM from a very angry full-blood Asian-Canadian stating firmly that full-blood characters should never be played by mixed blood, and ranted about how hapas have it so much better than full-blood Asian. Regarding his opinion on the media portrayals, I had no strong feeling one way or the other, the purpose of the thread was to see if anyone else did and clearly I struck a nerve. But I spent a long time trying to explain hapa issues and how maybe we have it better than full-blood Asians in some areas, but worse in others. I'm not sure if I got through to him, but I kept the debate as civil as possible, at least on my end.

One a separate incident, someone posted some original content, a little comic about AM hair vs AF hair and depicted the AF hair as being so perfect and flawless. I made a comment stating how I didn't think it was that accurate regarding the AF hair, that they often complain how dull, straight and boring their hair is, wishing it to be more colorful, wavy, etc. Lots of other alleged AF's agreed in the comments.

I got a furious response from another user demanding to know why I would even venture into r/asianamerican since I clearly was not Asian - I guess because of the way I explained Asian hair. I explained I was hapa with very non-Asian hair and he quickly apologized and admitted he too was a hapa. His initial angry reply got a bunch of downvotes and my initial comment and reply to his comment had a ton of upvotes. Not sure if that gives us a clue on the sub's overall feelings with hapas - or maybe's there's no correlation there.

Anyways those are the only notable incidents in my limited time in r/asianamerican.

Onerealhapa · 35分前

Gas light hapa problems as belonging to a "fringe, bizarre minority"
Exclude hapas from their dialogues about hapas
Remove all references of r/hapas and the discussions/concerns voiced in it
Make an account called u/unkle, and make your flair "HAPAS ARE ASIAN" while nearly all of the vocal hapas in actual need of some inclusion had to go to a different fucking forum so as to not be gas lighted...

And that's r/AA in a nutshell.

Edit: Most annoying part? r/AA is either stubborn as fuck, or just dumb as fuck to not realize co-opting is how they get control of the convo... denial just makes their bullshit that much more blatant. But who knows, maybe that's just too incompatible with the users they're courting now.

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