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Ethnic studies as part of healing work; Academia & the assimilation of the colonized intellectual

Interpreting silence by Asians in social justice movements not as apathy but a combination of self-preservation and lack of clarity on where we fall on the spectrum of racial discrimination (often presented as a binary) and feeling displaced.

We as Asians cannot conflate our racial suffering with what Black people have suffered at the hands of white supremacy. It’s not less legitimate, just a different form. Asians must acknowledge how we have benefited directly from anti-Black rhetoric.