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I know a couple of Vietnamese people who will say shit like “I’ll just tell people I’m not Chinese and hate them too.” They say it half jokingly, half seriously. I try to tell them that we’re all Chinese in the eyes of Americans, but they won’t listen to me. They genuinely think Americans can tell us apart and will listen to reason, as long as you can do it before they beat you or push you in front of a train. Worse are the cucks who are attached to south Vietnam and love america. They literally assassinated your president you clown. Some of the worse massacres were committed by Americans against south Vietnamese people. They do not see us as humans, and the anti Asian crime and sentiment are evidence of it. And no, charging a guy wont fix it. The foundations of this country is what made him do it.
I don’t mean to make a whole screed on a post about a family almost being murdered. But some people will look at news like this and just think they need to be One of The Good Ones and it won’t happen to them, which causes inaction and more incidents like this to happen.
I’m really troubled by the recent rise in anti-Chinese propaganda in the US because it means all Asian people will be increasingly threatened by violence like this
Big reason why I get kind of unhinged over rhetorically defending China
Where are you from? Cause if you say US or any EU country then of fucking course only a Vietnamese who left the homeland to go live in a Western shithole would spew unhinged shit like that. Bootlickers who think life in South Vietnam was better when the US "came and improve people's lives".
I don’t think the average Vietnamese person from that era really cares too much about whether their lives were “improved” when the Americans occupied the country. Their views are usually colored more by their conditions after moving to the US, which are generally better than before they moved. The nationalism for the south is just because they dislike communism and because their lives are better in the US (after being bombed and occupied by them) which presents themselves as the saviors.