come chat and vibe and vent. hows the first week into black history month treating you? how are you celebrating/ learning? any cool black history info that you wish was more well known?
is anyone is just so fucking done with the children of immigrants making fun of their parent? like theres a whole genre of content online of poc kids making deeply racist jokes bout their own parents. mocking their accents, complaining about their English, making jokes defending beating children, getting on fucking tv to defend these obvious racist jokes with. “im not making fun of blank, im mocking my parents who happen to be just lazy caricatures” and “how can i be racist aganist my own race?” while putting on modern day minstrel shows. or worst, irl talking shit about them right in front of them because they dont speak English. I hope that white approval was worth it scumbags.
It started off innocent but, like most fun internet trends, quickly became self-hating and cruel. The videos I hate most are the ones that portray abuse as cultural traditions to be proud of. Chancla memes turned into weird poc feeling superior for being violently abused by their immigrant parents and/or having the media portray their cultures as inherently violent. I get so pissed off when they conflate white American culture with softness and overly doting families because (a) it’s actually super dysfunctional and not at all kind nor healthy, (b) abuse exists in every culture and © no parent of any group should be beating their kids.
There is a line between sharing and discussing the shared experiences of children of immigrants and being racist, and it is often crossed. It isn’t for me to police it for other groups. But there’s a difference between discussing the awkwardness of attending your parents immigration process as a translator, and doing minstrel bits about the way your parents say certain words.
When im in a racist accent competition and an asian-diaspora “comedian” enters
That shit is so gross. I don’t want to feel too old, but the trend of posting embarrassing parent stuff was unthinkable to me as a teenager. It was more for fear of my own embarrassment or stigmatization, but this seems so much more callous.
It’s disturbing to see kids and young adults incentivized to use their families for content like this. And they don’t even see it as opening the door for people to reproduce the racist behavior on them. They aren’t going to stop and wonder if you have an accent or belief system. Folks will just walk up and say vile racist shit.
lmao
My parents never hit me growing up, and my best friend (who was white) was routinely cursed out and spanked by his mom when I was at his house
There’s also that classic vid where the white kid’s dad runs over all his Xbox games with a lawnmower
To be honest I have a hard time imagining most Indian or East Asian parents actually hitting their children or freaking out especially hard
There’s also that classic vid where the white kid’s dad runs over all his Xbox games with a lawnmower
That reminds me
If the kkkrakkas do it, it’s just a minority
If the POCs do it, that’s their cultural oddity…
Also, I’m in the same boat as you as well… my parents weren’t exactly soft but they weren’t strict about doing this activity and that…
