The only thing worse than these attacks is politicizing them

She's always been an Asian American.

Yeah, like I'm German because an ancestor four or five generations ago had a German wife.

You would probably qualify as a German American (assuming you're American). I technically qualify as an Irish Australian because of my great grandfather, but I just identify as Australian.

One ancestor makes me German like speaking Latin makes me Roman!

It's a tad bit more than one. And nobody said it made you German - you'd possible be a German AMERICAN.

Have it your way - having one German ancestor amidst a majority of Irish ancestors doesn't make me a German American, and trying to pretend that I am German American because I have one German ancestor is just playing race to suit my agenda. Clearly, we disagree on this.

Bravo. Here, have some ice cream

She's of Asian descent, and never attempted to hide it.

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And the next time there is a traumatic experience that happens in a Jewish comminity, she'll be part Jew. Empathy is one thing. This is pathetic.

She's been called an Asian American for years now.

Her mom is Indian. That makes her a first generation Asian American, proudly named Kamala Devi in recognition of that heritage. She hasn't been stealthy about it. (And if she wants to convert to Judaism, that's a community at home with strong women -- we'd be thrilled to have her.)

And during Oktoberfest my one German ancestor makes me German. Whatever. She's a political chameleon.

Or, alternatively, her identity doesn't slot into a single identity politics box, and that makes some people uncomfortable.

The shooter didn't target Asians. He didn't go to Ancestry and demand a list of Asian people. He targetted people with almond shaped eyes, previously described as yellow, who worked at a particular type of business. She tried to use her Asian heritage to join with those sharing the ethnicity of the victims for the purpose of increasing her political capital. No one's identity fits into a single identity politics box because we're all mutts. If you go back far enough, my ancestors were from Africa. Does that make me African-American? No, and choosing to temporarily switch the ethnicity that I identify as for political gain is dishonest in my opinion.

From a results-based analysis, it looks like he DID target Asian women. Violence can be intersectional too.
And, from numerous reports, Asian Americans have been targeted by violent racists this last year.

Almond shaped eyes refers to people, generally, in SE Asia, not India. It was reported by the police that he targetted these asian women because they ran massage establishments and he by self report has a sex addiction. Ethnicity was more of a factor than race. Italians and Irish are both European, but that doesn't create an understanding of the Northern Ireland troubles in the Italians.

Agreed: India and Thailand, or India and Korea, or China and Laos, et cetera, are very different. Like Ghanaians and South Africans. But to someone looking from the outside through a racist lens (not you, obviously, the shooter and anti-Asians), that diversity gets erased.

So, pan-Asian American solidarity is a thing. Americans of all sorts of different Asian national ancestry and also Pacific Islander ancestry identify as a group, diverse as it is, which has had similar experiences as immigrants to America.

Anyway, tl/dr : It is valid for Indian Americans to call themselves Asian Americans and be concerned about the treatment of Asian Americans as a class.

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