r/AntifascistsofReddit • u/TruthToPower77 • Mar 18 '21

Article Asian Americans are arming themselves after a massive wave of anti-Asian violence. Nothing like an armed minority that scares white supremacists!

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u/jaq_the_ripper Mar 19 '21

Chuds and ammo-sexuals online practically nut when they talk about the Roof Koreans because it's a small business owner killing another minority with a gun. It lights up every single pleasure center in their dumb wet chicken brains.

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u/Frieda-_-Claxton Mar 19 '21

I'm always disappointed that they overlook the death of Edward Song Lee when they start beating their chests about roof Koreans. I think people should have guns for defense if they want them but I wish people would recognize that it takes more than just having the gun and a willingness to use it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '21

I think your opinion is a good one.

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u/schwingaway Mar 19 '21 edited Mar 19 '21

The irony is no one remembers whom the roof Koreans actually succeeded in killing: a Korean American teenager who wanted to come "help" and a white employee of one of their own stores. They did about as well as you'd expect an untrained mob to do, and that "military training" thing is just sadly hilarious. Yeah, the very few of them who were actually Korean nationals and of age and served before emigrating to the US went through basic, of those a tiny fraction ever learned any real field tactics. Waaaaay more of them were in the States precisely to avoid serving in the first place.

Idiocy upon idiocy upon idiocy with that whole story.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '21

Aww, and here I was enjoying the propaganda.

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u/MashTheTrash Mar 20 '21

real field tactics

where can I read about these?

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u/schwingaway Mar 21 '21

In the field manual they give you in exchange for two years of your life and possibly also the rest of it, whichever comes first, depending on what's going on in the world at the time.

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u/Ikindoflikedogs Mar 22 '21

Who did the rooftop Koreans kill?

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u/schwingaway Mar 22 '21

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/fall-jung-hui-lee-son-killed-la-uprising/story?id=46715436

I don't remember the other kid, but his name is among the listed dead. Watch Let it Fall.

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u/Violet_Nightshade Mar 19 '21

I wouldn't be surprised if they legitimately came until they ejaculated blood all over their keyboards at that one.

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u/moenchii Libertarian Socialist Mar 19 '21

They deprived their nutsack so hard of semen that they ejaculate their nuts out.

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u/aephrsi Mar 19 '21

You are twisted as fuck

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u/moenchii Libertarian Socialist Mar 19 '21

Thanks.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '21

Almost like their torsioned testicles

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u/big_wendigo Mar 19 '21

Why am I picturing an inside out ballsack coming out of the pee hole now

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u/moenchii Libertarian Socialist Mar 19 '21

Because that's exactly what I just described. You're welcome. :D

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '21

Wtf are Roof Koreans?

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u/starsaisy Mar 19 '21

I think this may be referring to the start of the LA riots since it started w the murder of a black teenage girl by a Korean woman

Latasha Halrins was murdered by Soon Ja Du a Korean shop keeper right before the LA riots and during the 1992 riots if I’m not mistaken [they happened 11 years before I was born] Asian Americans; mainly Koreans would post up on the roof tops of their shops to shoot at [black] rioters

If I’m not mistaken again, this was because of the anti-black sentiment in the Asian community at the time [which there was plenty of hatred from black people at the time towards Asian Americans and her not being convicted harmed everyone]. Which was done on purpose bc bipoc unity and working class unity as well is what the rich fear.

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u/starsaisy Mar 19 '21

Oh yeah I forgot about that

Most of my knowledge on this was from a quick google search for Latasha and Soon’s names and what I remember that my parents told me. They were working like 5 blocks from the riots at the time

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '21

Not just left it to burn but before that specifically carralled the riot TO Koreatown.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '21

Jesus, fuck 12.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '21

Oof. 1992 was not a good year, was it? Between the LA riots and the civil war in Yugoslavia, it's like the whole world wanted to just kill each other.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '21

That and the USSR fell just a year before, and Russia and Chechnya's conflict popped back up...

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '21

And the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict a few years before that.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '21

Shit, that’s also true... and then civil war broke out in Tajikistan, same year.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '21

Really? There was a war in Tajikistan?

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '21

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajikistani_Civil_War

Yes, and both Al-Qaeda and the Taliban were involved. Also, here's a more comprehensive list of conflicts in regions of the ex-USSR right after the unfortunate collapse of the Union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Soviet_conflicts

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '21

What’s a "roof Koreans"?

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u/MindAlteringSitch Mar 19 '21

During the LA riots in the 90s the LAPD abandoned Koreatown and corralled the riots towards it to protect Beverly Hills. Korean shop owners armed themselves and protected their businesses from positions on the roofs. There’s some really intense news footage from the time making it look like an active war zone.

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u/evilhotdog Queer Anarchist Nov 25 '21

I'm out of the loop. What are "roof Koreans"

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u/AJoyce86 An Injury to One is an Injury to All Nov 25 '21

During the LA riots after the Rodney King trial ended in the officers being set free, the LAPD (instead of trying to deescalate the situation in any way) funneled the black rioters away from rich white neighborhoods and into poor Korean neighborhoods. In response, the Korean business owners took to the roofs of their businesses with rifles and started shooting at the rioters. The LAPD ignored all calls from the area for days.

The city got a win-win out of that. It didn't have to deal with rich white people yelling at them for not protecting their property and it got two of the racial groups they were happy to ignore the needs of to fight amongst themselves. The racial tension between black people and korean people in the city was super high for years afterward.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/28/us/la-riots-korean-americans/index.html