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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (8 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

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 (c) no parent of any group should be beating their kids.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

Yes, everyone I know who consumes content like that gives the vibes that they hate the place that they and I grew up. They only moderately tolerate it for the potential in their careerism.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Indeed.

At times, people like Korean comic et Uncle Roger need to be detained and sent for a criticism session...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

When im in a racist accent competition and an asian-diaspora "comedian" enters

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, a lot of EM and BIPOC are racist against other EM and BIPOC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Edited (I just didn't know what to write at the time):

But yeah, BIPOC can be colorist and discriminatory, if not racist against other people and their own kind...

However, I would say it's not to the same extent as white ppl now

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I know you deleted this comment, but I hope I didn't offend.

I felt I was speaking to a very real reality that I encountered in school and life, that other non-white people can be racist or xenophobic against each other.

But I don't mean to say white supremacy, for example, isn't a very real thing. It arguably causes racism to spread among other, well, races.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nah, it's cool. I just didn't know what to say....

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

yeah, it's dumb

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I'm a child of immigrants and I've never done this.

Yeah, it sucks though.