# @breyeschow on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/COltZz0pvsS
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- **Posted:** 2021-05-07T22:53:41.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Bruce Reyes-Chow (@breyeschow) — https://gondola.cc/breyeschow

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[UPDATE: Comments turned off because way too much violent rhetoric.]

If you truly understand and support #BlackLivesMatter then your commitment to #StopAsianHate cannot also include calls for increased policing, reinforcement of the carceral system, or any perpetuation of antiblackness.⠀
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I have been seeing far too many threads in response to anti-Asian hate crimes that quickly devolve into calls for more policing and contain subtle and not-so-subtle antiblack rhetoric. While I get that people want a clear and immediate outlet for rage and frustration, calling for more police and blaming the Black community for what is going on and/or how "they" should respond only reinforces white supremacy that LOVES LOVES LOVES to see black and brown people fighting over crumbs.⠀
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Don't give into this.
Justice is not a zero sum game.
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Yes, be angry, be active, and demand a response, but let's not be performative in our support of our Black siblings. Let's question systems that have created the kind of inequality that feed tension between communities of color, let's not reinforce the myth of the threatening Black man when you know that most of the racist BS that we have to put up with comes from white people, and for the love of God, let's not lionize the police and carceral system when the racial reckoning that is happening in our country is due to the of the wider unveiling of a system that is built to keep brown and Black people in check.⠀
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If your call to #StopAsianHate or #StopAAPIHate comes at the cost of the lives and liberation of others, that call is hollow, dangerous, and I want no part of it.⠀
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But if you see the work as intersectional and hard as hell, I'm there. None of us can do this alone. We need one another.⠀
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IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Screen show of Twitter post with the above quote on swirled, multicolored background.⠀
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#CriticalRaceTheory #Asians4BlackLives #APAHM #CRT #AAPI #BLM  #FilipinoAmerican #FilAm #PaloAlto #Intersectionality #Accomplice #Solidarity #Abolition #PrisonAbolition #AbolishThePolice #DefundThePolice #AsiansForBlackLives #AsianPacificAmericanHeritageMonth

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
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| Bruce Reyes-Chow | @breyeschow | https://gondola.cc/breyeschow | Writer/Author |

## Tags

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