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This Week in Cancellations (with Joanna Robinson)

🕑 Added 2021-02-12 14:01:02 +0000 UTC

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Alec

Loved this discussion. Thanks for sharing! I’m Mexican American and I felt the emotional impact of that Steven Yuen quote, too. The immigrant struggle is a shared one and his words will stick with me. For anyone unaware of the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in the US, please read up on it as the mainstream media is not covering it to the degree that it should. https://www.thecut.com/2021/02/the-us-is-seeing-a-massive-spike-in-anti-asian-hate-crimes.html Check in on your Asian friends/fam, and consider offering to escort them on a walk or a grocery run. People are scared.

Sean Choe

Thank you for the great conversation Dave and Joanna Robinson. The Steven Yeon profile really resonated with me as well. It was interesting to think, Dave, you and I are in similar age, but I'm more like your dad, in terms of sensitivity to microaggression, because I lived in South Korea until I turn 31 and then moved here. In my personal experience though, it's not that I don't catch the microagressions from white people to us, but more like I can ignore them, because I grew in Korea for my whole life as a majority. You know what I mean? In Korea, white people are minority and we Koreans have microagressions to them(unconsciously in most cases). So when I felt the microaggression, or even unconscious racism, I can just consider them as kindness. This conversation between Sandra Oh and Sharon Choi catches it very well I think. (at 19:16) https://youtu.be/xvVKwUXv54E?t=1156 But now I'm living here and have a son who's American, I can't just ignore it anymore.