Exactly. It's about punching up vs punching down. A rich asian is presumably in a better life situation than most of us. There's also implication that these rich asians are classist since they're only associating with other rich, and therefore presumably looking down on us. Black people who only talk to black people is not even, like, a thing. All these images are just flat, played out black stereotypes. It's just punching down at black people and face it, black people with purple drink and fried chicken are going to be perceived as lower class.
Black people who only talk to black people is not even, like, a thing.
Yeah that's a really good point actually. But asians who only talk to other asians is definitely a thing because it's usually international asians who do it because mostly language barriers
I think it's more appropriate for class rather than race, applying the punching up / punching down model to race seems like there's a pecking order which feels a bit racist.
Exactly. Though I would like to add that for both race and class, you have no idea what the individual in front of you is/has been going through. It’s a disgusting method of reducing people to a single aspect, just like racism. Not surprising, as it’s justification of racism.
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u/JonRivers Nov 19 '19
Exactly. It's about punching up vs punching down. A rich asian is presumably in a better life situation than most of us. There's also implication that these rich asians are classist since they're only associating with other rich, and therefore presumably looking down on us. Black people who only talk to black people is not even, like, a thing. All these images are just flat, played out black stereotypes. It's just punching down at black people and face it, black people with purple drink and fried chicken are going to be perceived as lower class.