As is almost always the case, the left’s “narrative” on racism is wrong in almost every respect. Western countries are not the sole repositories of racism in the world. In fact, as data shows, they are the least racist societies in the world.
And contrary to bullshit leftist “theory”, non-whites can be racist. Very, very racist. Ask anyone who’s been publicly abused as a “white c-t”, for instance.
Or, ask someone from a minority group who’s willing to tell the truth.
University of Otago medical student Angela Huor…who grew up in Wellington, said the only racism she faced came from people of Polynesian decent.
She said while often walking outside in Wellington, people of Maori or Pacific Island decent would taunt her for her ethnicity.
“Often walking to the bus stop and back people would say things like ‘ching-chong China’ or ask me for $2 for fish and chips,” Ms Huor said.
OK, I wouldn’t rate the $2 begging as “racism”. That sort of panhandling is just as common among white bogans. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been accosted with, “Ya got any change fer me bus fare?” in the Launceston mall.
But “ching-chong China”? Oh, yeah: that’s racist as hell.
Ms Huor said her own family, who fled the Cambodian-Vietnamese conflict in the 1980s, have also been guilty of being racist towards other ethnicities.
“Every time I go back [to her parents], even now, pretty much everyday there is this conversation about the Vietnamese or the Chinese or whatever. I think it’s a result of the trauma they have been through,” she said.
Ms Huor said her parents also discriminated against her non-white friends and would have conversations about bringing over friends who had darker skin, which made her feel angry.
I’ve had Japanese friends make disparaging remarks about Chinese, and Hong Kong Chinese sneer at Mainland Chinese. When a Chinese Australian friend of mine brought home his white girlfriend (now wife), his parents hit the roof. His mother barely spoke to her daughter-in-law until the grandchildren arrived.
In one respect, though, it seems that Ms Huor might be a bit over-sensitive.
Ms Huor also changed the pronunciation of her surname, to avoid racist abuse.
The name, which is pronounced similarly to “Hore”, usually attracted unwanted attention.
“Growing up people would laugh. It meant that I always changed the pronunciation of my last name,” Ms Huor said.
Word to the wise: this happens to white people with funny-sounding names, too. Where I grew up, there were prominent families with names like “Hoare” and “Fagg”, which provoked generations of schoolboy humour. My sister had a friend whose surname was “Wragge”. Boy, did we have fun with that one. It’s not racist to make fun of peoples’ surnames – just childish.
But Ms Huor is very right – and unusually honest – to concede that racism is not only, or even mostly, a “white” thing.
Ms Huor said experiencing racism from minority groups had taught her a valuable lesson.
“I think what it has taught me is that every person has the capacity [to discriminate] and we all do it, not just with race, but I think we do it with social status, with religion.”
rnz.co.nz/news/national/397994/significant-racism-among-minority-groups-says-asian-med-student
