I've had enough of this. Life is already bad enough; why should it be worse? Look, you probably didn't come here for a rant on racism, maybe you just thought this was a talk about something dumb on Scratch or whatever. No. This is REAL LIFE. Where people get shamed without even noticing it. Want me to tell you how? About a couple days ago, I went to the eye doctor's, and the main doctor there is Asian; an American with Korean parents. But when I went into the exam room (I have bad eyesight ;v;) the (white) lady asked me if she could push my eyelids up a little to make the screening or something easier. Now, I didn't notice this until a couple days after the appointment, but when I searched 'Asian Hate Crimes' (because I check the news; I'm Asian too) I remembered the doctor's appointment. And, look, I have big eyes for an Asian, specifically a Chinese person. Like, I have decent-sized eyes. So when I remembered that day, anger and the need for justice burned a path across my mind even more than before this; before Covid; before I really even understood what racism was. (Duh.) Please, know that #stopaapihate and #IAmNotAVirus has meaning. A tale. Hidden in those words is the true meaning of the need for justice. Hope. And also the sadness and loss folded away into those words. And yes, even a white person who does eye stuff asks an Asian person if they can push up their eyelids is a racist person. Maybe she meant it. Maybe she didn't. But now, I will never look at the eye doctor's the same way I did a few years back. /srsly /gen
