Chances are, you've probably known some mixed race half-Asian people in your life. They might have been a childhood friend growing up. They might your own children, or they might even be you. But I'm willing to bet that they also were, like everyone else, just normal people, not defined by their racial identity.





This is why it comes as a surprise to learn about the nature of the online community for half-Asians on Reddit, r/hapas.





As you probably already know, Reddit is a popular link-sharing aggregator site where users can post links and comments, and then "vote" them up or down. Reddit is a great place to find news relating to specific topics, and the birthplace of many internet trends. Unfortunately, Reddit is also the digital gathering place for sanctimonious pseudo-intellectuals worldwide. There's no better place to be rudely corrected by pothead millennials masturbating to fantasies of universal basic income, destroying religion, legal weed, and cryptocurrency than Reddit. The voting system also means unique thought is discouraged, and anyone with unpopular opinions has their posts buried in downvotes and their posts hidden. This results in "echo chamber" communities where everyone just agrees with each other and pats each other on the back, never challenging nor defending their views (also known by the pejorative "circlejerk," named for a gay orgy where a bunch of fully erect dudes stand in a circle and jack each other off).













A "hapa" is a term originally used to describe any mixed-race person, borrowed from the Hawaiian language, but has recently become more narrowly used to describe mixed race people of half-Asian heritage. A related term is "Eurasian," which specifically refers to half-Asian, half-white mixed race people.







From the outside, an online community for mixed race people sounds harmless. A place to share a common identity, or perhaps share stories about their interactions with others in a narrow-minded world. But anyone who has ever visited this "subreddit" (other websites might simply call a subdivision of a website a "page" or "forum") is exposed to one of the most cancerous communities on the entire internet.





An intense hatred for white males with Asian wives or girlfriends. Vitriol aimed at any Asian female with a white husband or boyfriend. The most profound self-loathing I've ever seen expressed in words. Unhealthy obsession with interracial couples. All racebait, all the time. Don't believe me? Let's take a look at some of the content shared on r/hapas:





Wow. Hopefully none of us need chemotherapy after those posts.





Let's break down what we just saw:





hatred for white men in Asia

hatred for Asian women who like white men

stereotyping white men who like Asian women as pedophiles

intense desire to apply racial labels to other people's mixed-race children

hero diver in Thailand smeared for the crime of being a white male





And it only gets worse the deeper you dig into r/hapas:









Maternity photos, something that is supposed to be a wholesome cause for celebration, tarnished with the deep stain of identity politics and racism from the members of r/hapas. This is why we can't have nice things.





A look at the "new" queue reveals more of the same:





Over and over again, ad infinitum. This isn't a community for half-Asian people at all. Look at the second post from the bottom, it's describing a criminal on a violent rampage. That has absolutely nothing to do with being half-Asian. This is just a place to share hate.





The first question most will ask is, where is this so-called "mental anguish" coming from? If the half-Asian mixed race people we know in real life are all normal and socially well-adjusted, who are these people online getting mad at posts on the internet and injecting identity politics into other people's relationships? They must be a small, yet vocal community people with deep-rooted psychological issues. Who knows where they developed them from, but spending too much time on the internet is a likely possibility.







You'll notice there's a lot of mention of "WMAF." This is shorthand for a White Male/Asian Female relationship. For whatever reason, these particular types of relationships breed a great deal of resentment among the members of r/hapas. White men in relationships with Asian women are portrayed as socially awkard, racist, bald, pedophile, sexist, alcoholic, womanizing, unable to get laid in Western countries, or anime fans who sleep with Sailor Moon body pillows. Asian women in relationships with white men are portrayed as self-hating, promiscuous race traitors.





Maybe you're thinking kids are a taboo topic for such broad generalizations? Wrong! Not even the innocent world of children is off-limits to r/hapas. Children born from WMAF relationships are commonly described on the subreddit as being ugly, confused, self-loathing, hating their dads, socially awkard, or potentially violent incels, e.g. Elliot Rodger the mass murderer. (Oh, but only if their father is white and their mother Asian. Kids of AMWF couples are supposed to be attractive and sucessful, according to their "logic.")











AMWF (Asian Male/White Female) relationships, on the other hand, are celebrated and encouraged. Asian men in relationships with white women restore balance to the universe like a snap from Thanos's Infinity Gauntlet. They are the coolest guy in the room at all times, epic win all around, the quarterback of their high school football team (or the silly mid-wicket of their secondary school's cricket team, or whatever sport you Euros play in school). White women in relationships with Asian men are seen as the ideal partner. Prudent, sophisticated, intelligent.





The disconnect between r/hapas and reality is appalling. A white person and an Asian person who create offspring together, regardless of which parent is which race, will result in children that are equally mixed race. Outside appearance may vary, but everyone gets exactly half their genes from each parent. That's how sexual reproduction works (of course, the ultimate redpill is that there is no scientific basis for the concept of "race." Race, as we use it in contemporary society, is literally a social construct).





So where is this attitude coming from? It's outlined clearly in their subreddit info page:









Here's the real shocker: r/hapas describes itself as an "anti-racist safe space." This is a joke, right?! Apparently not. The same subreddit that injects identity politics into the relationships of ordinary people just trying to live their lives, bills itself as an "anti-racist safe space."









Yes, please r/hapas, take down the evil, racist, sexist white patriarchy, by attacking families! Maybe if you attack families hard enough, you'll create world peace, and we'll all live in a world where Asian men only marry Asian women, and white men only marry white women. Let's bring back segregation to end racism. Good idea, r/hapas. 🙄





Imagine for a second that we change WMAF to BMWF, black male/white female, and subject it to the same criticsm on r/hapas. Imagine an entire community with posts like "NorCal rapist caught. Raped atleast 10 women over a 15 year period. Was a black guy who targeted white women throughout Northern California," "Another one: black guy drugs and kills white student in Vancouver #NotAllBlackGuys," "black male wants to marry white woman just because he likes country music," or "BMWF is inherently racist." What would your reaction be? Hopefully something like: "This is racist as shit." "This place is like the Jim Crow South online." "I must've stumbled upon the KKK's internet forum."





This is how we can see the true nature of r/hapas. They're just miserable self-loathing curmudgeons who try in vain to safeguard the purity of the Asian race. Someone needs to tell them the Asian race isn't going extinct any time soon.









Let's spend a moment to talk about this "white patriarchy" that r/hapas wants to demolish. Are there racist white people? Of course. Is the fetishization of Asian women a thing? Yes. Does this mean all white men in relationships with Asian women are racist? Absolutely not. Does this mean that white privilege creates inequalities in people's interracial relationships? If the number of laowai men married to Chinese women who surrender their salary to their wife and receive an allowance back of their own money is any indication, definitely not. Saying that an interracial couple are only attracted to one another only on account of their race is asinine. If you don't know the couple, you don't know their feelings. They might, dare I say it, actually love one another. Sure, sleazy sexpats exist, and I lampoon them regularly on this subscription account. But it doesn't look like those are the people r/hapas is targeting for their hatred.

As for Asian women who prefer white men, are they promiscuous race-traitors as well? Well that's look at it this way. A country with 114 million more dudes than chicks has a phenomenon like "leftover women." (Or the "herbivore men" in Japan who are more interested in painting their fingernails and playing video games than raising families, leading to a population collapse and 3 retired pensioners for every working person). Could it possibly be the outrageously picky Chinese men unwilling to marry a woman over trivial things like how many edges her eyelids have, or because they perceive her to have too much personality or be too career-driven? And more open-minded Western men aren't burdened by 5000 years of culture so they don't mind a woman having a career, and they certainly don't care about eyelids? No, let's just keep pointing fingers at the white male patriarchy bogeyman, objectifying these helpless delicate lotus flowers, bringing their toxic masculinity with them into the previously gender-equal paradise known as the Middle Kingdom. Take a minute to really imagine calling another human being leftover because nobody wants them, and decide for yourself who's the one being sexist.





People are free to fall in love and marry anybody they choose, the opinions of eternally butthurt Reddit users notwithstanding. It's 2018, discouraging race-mixing should have been left in the past long ago. Imposing your unsolicited political and racial views upon other couples because of their interracial nature is racism, pure and simple.







If you are in a WMAF or AMWF relationship, or any other interracial relationship for that matter, have no fear. This 11,000 member community is a tiny fraction of the total number of mixed-race people with an Asian parent, and is no way indicative of the mindset your kids will have. In fact, it's only indicative of people who spend all their time online obsessing over issues the rest of the world finds insignificant. Ask anybody on the street for their opinion on interracial couples, and I guarantee they'll call you a weirdo for even asking. Normal people aren't obsessed with these obscure, niche racial politics; they're too busy living their lives.





If we want to make this world a better one for mixed race people everywhere, instead of discouraging interracial relationships, we should really be discouraging people from using Reddit.





















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