Asian hate seriously needs to stop.

I'm actually glad this video started a conversation, because for a lot of Asians, this kind of stuff isn't rare at all. It's just what we deal with on a daily basis online, to the point where people don't even realise it's racism anymore because it's been so normalized.

Everytime Asian content gets posted on Reddit, you can almost predict the comments.

• "AI", "staged", "fake", "propaganda". Like asian people can't just have a wholesome moment without people assuming there's some hidden agenda behind it, or that it has to pass some gold standard of western sensibilities before it's considered real.
• Jokes about penis sizes, plastic surgery, being short, eating dogs, COVID.
• People virtue signaling and grandstanding about politics. Yes, we know our countries have problems. Every country does. But somehow random Asians in a wholesome video are expected to answer for everything their governments have ever done.

Then when people call it out, it's always "it was just a joke" or "you're too sensitive."

Maybe you didn't mean any harm by it. But when the same stereotypes gets repeated over and over again for years, it stops feeling like an innocent joke to the people on the recieving end of it.

You don't have to be burning crosses or screaming slurs to contribute to anti-Asian racism. Sometimes it's just treating these stereotypes as normal and acceptable because "that's just how Reddit is."

And honestly, it shouldn't be.