Ep. 179 (Preview): Asian Bluechecks Confessing "Anti-Blackness In The Asian Community"

Escape From Plan A

English - May 29, 2020 04:29 - 15 minutes - 13.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 199 ratings
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Tou Thao is one of the four cops involved in the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The Asian American Twitterati (aka 'Bluechecks', a reference to the check mark indicating their special verified status on Twitter) quickly offered their tweets instructing Asian Americans to "recognize the anti-Blackness in the Asian community." Are such admonitions -- usually by the privileged -- real calls for a cultural moment of re-examination, or cynical virtue signalling for self-preservation in a difficult racial moment?

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