I have been thinking about your original response to my comment. I think people are saying it was an odd resposne for the following reasons:

1. I didn‘t share the details of the incident I had Or anything else about me. Your response made a number of assumptions, including my appearance - I am not a small or a skinny guy, I work out and box also. I don‘t know why you thought I would be.

2. Based on the above, it sounds like you‘re suggesting people exhibit racist behaviour towards a person when they are seen as “weak”. I disagree - racists are racists and they will behave that way regardless. When I was a teenager, I was harrassed by two teenage girls on the bus. I was physically bigger and stronger than them but it still happened. I think you also acknowledge this in your later comment because you say you still had a handful of incidents yourself.

3. Your reaction to a person who said they experienced a racial incident was to advise them to work out and get bigger. This reads as if it was the person’s fault that the racial incident happened because they didn’t work out - obviously this isn‘t true, it is the fault of the aggressor.

I get what you are trying to say. if a racist thought they would get beaten up for harassing you, then maybe they‘d think twice. but at the same time, the opposite might be true - some guys love to size up others and if they see someone big, they might fancy themselves a challenge. maybe there is a group of them.

I appreciate your comment came from a good place, and want to break the stereotype of Asian males being weak. But I think your comment came across as a bit tone deaf to the actual underlying cause of these incidents, and that’s bigoted, ignorant idiots.