4 things you can do to stop racism against Asians.

So today, we woke up to the news that there had been a shooting in Atlanta in the US.

Eight persons were shot down at 3 different spa-, and massage parlours. All done by one killer. Six of the victims were women of Asian backgrounds and it’s hard to see this shooting as anything other than a racist hate crime against Asians and Asian women.
It is horrible and my heart breaks a bit each time when I'm hearing these things. Over people that will never get home.

We need to stop racism against Asian people. After Corona broke out, the hate speech and abuse against Asians, especially people from Southeast Asia, has increased a lot, not only in the US but also in Europe.

We need to take this seriously and we need to work to stop this.

1. No more “funny jokes” about Asian people. Not a single one. And be that person that steps up when your friends pull those jokes and say “Hey, don’t say that.”
2. We don’t say China-virus. Just stop normalizing racism and justifying hate crimes like that.
3. Stop sexualising and objectifying Asian women. Not sexual fantasies for being short, dark, exotic and submissive. Just stop.
   
   
4. Stop picking shards and bits of Asian peoples culture and appropriate it in a disrespectful way while at the same time, not making an effort to stop racism and also lift up Asian people. You can’t cherry-pick these things.

And the obvious thing: Racism is something extremely bad and most people agree with that. However, most white people don’t know how to act around standing up against racism other than saying that “Racism is bad” and “I’m not a racist”.

But that is not enough. You need to stand up for your fellow Person of Color (PoC). You need to freaking do it every day.
Cause racism does not take a break in being exhausting, soul-crushing, painful and dangerous for PoC. It is there every single day.

This time, it targeted Asian women and people. Other times, it goes for black people, Hispanics, Muslims and so many others.
When a hate crime happens, it is the top of a big mountain and it is up to you all, white people, to step up and do something. 

And for us other PoC? We are already working as hard as we can and we are also trying to survive.

So with that, let's work hard to make racism end. It is already too much.

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