Also, if the whole world and every other race was seemingly against the "Asian" grouping, and schools were even teaching Asians to hate themselves, it would make sense to embrace the identity. Sure, don't let it erase the sub-identities, but if your enemies have grouped you together for extermination, maybe group together to fight against against it too.
I wouldn't go so far as to embrace, I just don't think that a catch-all term is a form of 4D chess. Should we lose our shit over terms like "Westerner" or "First World" since those too are catch-all terms that "erase" cultural identities? Why limit it to countries even? Surely calling someone American would be just as much of an "erasure" to people who are from Florida or Oregon since you could argue they too have unique cultures despite overlap.
This idea of "erasure" is, in my opinion, not significantly different from the idiots that try to endlessly categorise everyone into rigid definitions. I might prefer to be more specific, but I'm not going to sperg out and assume conspiracy over a catch-all. IdPol is IdPol.
Also, if the whole world and every other race was seemingly against the "Asian" grouping, and schools were even teaching Asians to hate themselves, it would make sense to embrace the identity. Sure, don't let it erase the sub-identities, but if your enemies have grouped you together for extermination, maybe group together to fight against against it too.
There in lies the fraud. Create a crisis in which the provided solution is to abandon one's own identity.
You can be multiple things at once.
Only if you have the time and resources to do so, which these artificial crisis seek to rob you of.
I wouldn't go so far as to embrace, I just don't think that a catch-all term is a form of 4D chess. Should we lose our shit over terms like "Westerner" or "First World" since those too are catch-all terms that "erase" cultural identities? Why limit it to countries even? Surely calling someone American would be just as much of an "erasure" to people who are from Florida or Oregon since you could argue they too have unique cultures despite overlap.
This idea of "erasure" is, in my opinion, not significantly different from the idiots that try to endlessly categorise everyone into rigid definitions. I might prefer to be more specific, but I'm not going to sperg out and assume conspiracy over a catch-all. IdPol is IdPol.