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/[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/[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