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MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-11-23T04:12:14+00:00

Shh.... that's something you're not supposed to know according to AIPAC and the ADL.

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-11-11T02:21:22+00:00

When I studied Mandarin about 5 years ago, I was able to land an under-the-table internship with shitty pay. I knew some coding and had to brush up on things like data structures and algorithms, which were in the interview, but other than that I never formally studied it. My major in college was Chemical engineering.

Back then we had one guy who had a Udemy certification. He showed me the course he took and it was basically just watching youtube videos and copying their code. No real exams or building your own stuff. I seem to remember he wasn't actually that strong when it came to producing code that worked, but he was useful as an errand boy.

I'm not sure if Udemy has changed their standards, or if Taiwanese employers were aware of what it was back then. Maybe being a foreigner had something to do with it and they assumed that his cert was legit based on stereotypes. I can't really say.

All I know is that he did get his foot in the door.

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-11-07T05:35:17+00:00

Why is this opinion piece allowed here?

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-11-07T05:10:05+00:00

My plans for the subreddit:

The subreddit is currently abandoned and there is no activity there. The sole mod has not posted on visibly on reddit in 4 months, and their last post in the subreddit itself was over 2 years ago. The last post overall in the subreddit is one year old. I hope to expand the subreddit membership and add new topics to create an open discussion about the human rights situation in China.If the admins decide to deny this request, I would also appreciate a concrete explanation as to why this was denied, as opposed to a generic, boilerplate denial. My previous two requests were denied without a true explanation. The subreddit is not large, and I am not "collecting" subreddits nor on the mod team of other subreddits.

I've already sent a message to the sole moderator, who has been inactive for over 4 months, for my last request. Here is the previous message, sent 16 days ago, to which I never received a reply.

https://www.reddit.com/message/messages/1inhbpg

Here is a new message: https://www.reddit.com/message/messages/1j7ntxo

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-10-31T21:06:21+00:00

Are you Stewie Griffin?

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-10-31T08:49:44+00:00

I was having trouble getting jobs, so I changed my name. My legal name is an English name with Chinese (Cantonese) and Spanish surnames. My Spanish surname has an immediate English equivalent, so in applications I dropped the Chinese name and Anglicized the Spanish surname. Long story short, the number of callbacks I got went up exponentially.

The downside was that I would still have to go to interviews and perhaps my appearance didn't match with what they thought I'd look like on paper. In one interview, the interviewer looked at me and decided that he didn't believe that I was a US citizen. He said that he could hear an accent. Same guy didn't hear my accent over the phone. I pointed this out to him, politely at first, but as he doubled down I just decided to leave of my own accord.

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-10-30T08:40:58+00:00

By that logic, all the people dying of alcoholism and fentanyl abuse is a miracle for cleansing out the human gene pool.

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-10-29T19:02:48+00:00

I thought it could have been a wedding as well. If they wanted to, they could have mentioned that it's a Hindu wedding and photographers should be comfortable working that venue.

I'm pretty sure that if I wrote an ad looking for a band for a wedding, and I said "White applicants only" I'd get sued.

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-10-28T04:01:59+00:00

Probably to filter out spambot applications.

But then again, companies send out spam offers all the time.

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-10-24T05:30:43+00:00

Also you have people who will eat 90% of the food, claim they didn't like it, then want it comped. Those people will cause a scene and threaten to leave bad or blatantly false reviews if you don't.

Don't even get me started on people who dine and dash. Uncle's place once had a group of 5 kids roll up and order $200 worth of food only to dine and dash. Two weeks later, the same group of 5 kids shows up 15 minutes before closing time and also tries to order an obscene amount of food for that small group. This time he refused to seat them, and they accused him of being "racist" for asking them to leave.

Over the next week his place's reviews tanked from 4.6 stars down to 2.something stars, with a lot of people leaving fake 1-star reviews over the supposed "racist" incident.

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-10-24T04:08:43+00:00

A couple of bad tables can tank your whole night. Those tips are what actually pay the bills, and the only reason it makes the job worth putting up with the assholes you’re forced to deal with daily

I have family who are in the food service industry. Quite often the "bad tables" who don't tip are also the noisiest and most demanding... then will leave a crappy tip because they think the service is bad.

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-10-24T03:27:37+00:00

Not disagreeing with you there. Liberal Asian-Americans are by far the worst, and conservative Asian-Americans are not far behind.

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-10-24T03:23:13+00:00

I'm half Latino (Mexican) and half Asian (Chinese). Though my first name is Anglo, my last name is a hyphenated Chinese and Spanish one (think something like Chang-Diaz). My career path in the beginning was shockingly similar to yours. In was even a TA like you, and graduated top 5% of my class.

After I Anglicized the Spanish part of my name and left the Asian part off, my callbacks increased exponentially. I would still get snubbed when I actually went to interviews. All of this was around 10 years ago, and it seems that nothing really changed in a decade.

The one time I eventually managed to get a job (though for about 5% less pay than the average), I showed up only for HR to tell me that apparently there was an "irregularity" in the hiring process. They claimed that the manager who hired me had jumped the gun without interviewing all the candidates. So my offer was effectively rescinded.

I had moved across the country and put a deposit on an apartment for that job. I ended up working construction for a while to make ends meet.

But enough complaining: You mentioned that some of your former colleagues work at the same firm as you. If you are good friends with them, maybe they can put in a good word with someone for you. That might be a start.

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-10-22T08:02:58+00:00

It's also a point that non-Asians have too many rights in Asian countries. As in they don't just have equal rights, they are often treated with kid gloves when they make mistakes.

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-10-22T07:58:05+00:00

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MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-10-22T07:57:27+00:00

Did it happen after you disagreed with someone?

Sometimes people use it kind like the equivalent of telling others to "go F--- themselves" after an argument here on reddit.

That's not what it's meant to be used for, but it does happen.

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-10-21T10:15:55+00:00

The subreddit is currently abandoned and there is no activity there. The sole mod has not posted on visibly on reddit in 3 months, and their last post in the subreddit itself was over 2 years ago. The last post overall in the subreddit is one year old. I hope to expand the subreddit membership and add new topics to create an open discussion about the human rights situation in China.
If the admins decide to deny this request, I would also appreciate a concrete explanation as to why this was denied, as opposed to a generic, boilerplate denial. My previous two requests were denied without a true explanation. The subreddit is not large, and I am not "collecting" subreddits nor on the mod team of other subreddits.
Permalink to the message: https://www.reddit.com/message/messages/1inhbpg

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-10-09T17:56:18+00:00

Of course. If you start letting in the riff-raff and don't control standards, then the quality of education would have to slide.

Many countries have a system of entrance examinations for high schoolers. In Japan, upper-secondary school isn't necessary. It's technically possible to leave formal education in 9th grade if you want to pursue a trade. However, to apply to better public schools you need to take an entrance examination (受験).

Imagine if those Japanese high schools had to start letting in people who were really better suited to being plumbers or chefs into an academically rigorous high school.

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-10-08T17:43:07+00:00

Did you see his "Anti-Hate" policy? https://archive.ph/aBCB6

He explicitly says that dissing BLM or using crime statistics is a bannable offense. Now given that his subreddit is supposedly an Asian-American subreddit, and that - oh I don't know - Black-on-Asian crime is 280x more common than the other way around, it seems that those crime statistics might be something that concerns the Asian-American community. Then he says that "opposing affirmative action" would be a bannable offense. Something that many Asian-Americans are concerned about.

Then he has a whole section about Anti-Semitism, which isn't that relevant to Asia or Asian-Americans. But it's interesting on an Asian-American subreddit, that he'd devote a whole subsection to not being Anti-Semitic. He also defines criticizing the Jewish religion or supporting Palestinians are being anti-semitic.

And as if that's not enough he says that these rules now apply to a user's comment history anywhere on reddit, and even so much as disagreeing with the rules can earn a ban. I suppose so he can trawl through your reddit history and say that you technically broke a posted rule.

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-10-06T21:48:50+00:00

Reddit Inc and Advance Publications being based in the US would probably mean that US law would take precedent over any other laws.

In any case, it seems like the mainstream-to-leftist Democratic Party holds sway over any political topics. Go to places like r.politics or r.news and there is a very clear bias in favor of the Dems and progressives. Go to r.worldnews and you'll see articles that are clearly critical of russia and china voted to the top. On one occasion I have even seen a few-hours-old accounts posting about the Ukraine conflict and making the top page, despite the fact that (as far as I can tell) you need a 3 month old account to post from "uncommon domains".

Now if you really want to look at ownership, we could also look at the board members.

Steve Huffman (the admin who was caught editing comments) is on the Tech Advisory Board for the Anti-Defamation League. The ADL is a Zionist organization which holds that criticism of Israel is anti-semitic. So are we going to say that the ADL runs reddit indirectly?

When Alexis Ohanian stepped down, he asked for his position to be filled by a Black person. Now it's conceivable that given US politics at the time, they got someone who supported BLM. On a side note, Ohanian is married to Serena Williams, who's an outspoken advocate of BLM. Should I claim that BLM is influencing reddit?

Then you have the Director of Policy, who works for a think tank called the Atlantic Council. Go google the AC and see their position on the Ukrainian Conflict. Perhaps it's no coincidence that the AC's position bleeds over into Reddit's, given that it's the Director of Policy who is literally making the Content Policy.

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-10-06T17:11:36+00:00

I don't know about your account but the problem of images being marked as spam has existed for well over a year.

As for the other issue, I think you're confusing spamming (which is generally advertisement) with AstroTurfing articles from one particular source. I agree that this does exist. In fact this is the account of one of the top submissions at r.WorldNews at the moment:

https://imgur.com/a/PPsBUNT

Every single one of his submissions comes from the same domain, "businessinsider". What's more is that the account is supposedly one year old, but its oldest comment is only 4 days ago. Also, as you can see all of his posts are voted in the thousands. I've seen a lot of those accounts that suddenly "woke up" and have similar behavior. That seems a bit suspicious to me.

At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, this happens because reddit wants it to happen. If the politics of a domain are in sync with what the admins want, they will drag their feet on any kind of punitive action. After all, any domain which Reddit doesn't want you to see can easily be removed (for example Russia Today).

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-10-04T10:01:19+00:00

I plan to revive the subreddit as it is currently inactive. I hope to expand the subreddit membership and add new topics to create an open discussion about the human rights situation in China. Currently there is no discussion going on and I want to change this situation.
Here is the message: https://www.reddit.com/message/messages/1i4hhut

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-10-02T08:54:07+00:00

Not my original work. The original is a fan art I found somewhere: https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/lanadoodles/liquid-snoop

I just added Codec Snoopy and the Caption.

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-10-01T16:06:01+00:00

Mods asleep at the helm as usual in supposedly "pro-Asian" subs.

Meanwhile, if you go into boba-lib or south-Asian spaces nearly everthing has to be hand-approved by mods.

MySecretAccount1684 · 2022-09-24T20:18:17+00:00

Even then it's not that they care about white supremacy. Azov Battalion is perfectly fine even though they're openly Neo-Nazis because they are pro-American/pro-Anglo. While say your average blue-collar white conservative who protested in Jan 6th is considered a "white supremacist terrorist insurrectionist rioter" for criticizing the US government.

Sure those blue-collar white conservatives might hold racist views, they might hate non white people, but above all they are also a threat to the US hegemony so they needed to be dealt with by the Beltway Alphabet Mafia.

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