@madrush @JorisMeys @ct_bergstrom Speaking as an Asian European: yes, of course racism is rampant out here too, of course that's a wider human problem. However, the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans is a trauma very specific to that Asian America diaspora due to the very specific context that it happened in, that we lack. To take that context away entirely doesn't do justice to that very specific pain to this very specific group.

Generalizing racism in my experience has only gotten white people to dismiss it as too abstract and large to deal with, or worse, to see racism as traditional to wider society so why is it a problem at all. We _need_ specific contexts of specific pains to keep the experience human and taken seriously.

We need to sum up those specific contexts, not strip them away.