Ok, pissed off now

[oyceter]

Yup, this is public; I am that pissed off.

I wasn't going to get involved, I swear I wasn't.

And then...

http://liviapenn.livejournal.com/473180.html?thread=6512732#t6512732

Because what the fucking fuck? Don't fucking throw the RAPE OF NANKING in my face when I am talking about white privilege. I just. I cannot type because WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?! My grandfather was in the Chinese Navy then, fighting against the Japanese. I have friends with relatives who grew up not speaking Taiwanese because of the occupation. My family left the fucking country and moved to Taiwan because of that war. Don't throw that in my face as a counter to white privilege and just fucking assume I haven't heard of it for some reason; you have no fucking idea.

Comments by people not on my flist are screened; everyone else feel free to comment, but please note I am REALLY FUCKING PISSED OFF about this. Don't be stupid. I will repost asshattery under a filter and mock, and I don't fucking care if you somehow think that's unfair.

Comments

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I'll be honest, I've never consciously heard of the Rape of Nanking. Asian history (like most history not directly related to the Caribbean which was strictly reinforced) tends to get all jumbled in my head until I get a history book out and look.

But I can appreciate the anger.

I can remember the first time I learned that blacks had slaves in Africa. It was because a white history teacher in Florida was talking about slavery and how econimically good it was for America and how the ending of the slave trade crippled America.

And I was 13. And all 'WTF'.

I had to go home and ask my mom. And she told me about how in America there was chattel slavery and slaves were objects like chairs. When I'd grown up in the Caribbean where because the islands were small and intermingling occured, things were a bit like America's New Orleans.

I'm glad you could smack him right in the face with knowing the true history.

And as the born citizen of a former British colony, I'm all with you on how much colonialism and the East Indies Companies just messed with everything.

[oyceter]

I'll be honest, I've never consciously heard of the Rape of Nanking.

I suspect most people haven't before Irish Chang wrote her book, and I'm pretty sure it's not a subject commonly taught in schools. I didn't actually know that many details about exactly what happened, just that it was horrible, until I read the book in college and was sickened.

But yeah. I just... omg! He does not get to say that to me. Just. Does not.