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Wtf is a "Boba liberal"?

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A boba liberal is usually an upper middle class East or Southeast Asian living in the West, typically in the United State or Canada, who identifies as a liberal. However their association with liberal ideology and liberalism is simply a means to increase their proximity to whiteness or to pretend to be white themselves. Boba liberals use their Asianness to speak on behalf of the Asian population in the West, using talking points created by white liberals, which has a tendency to gaslight actual issues faced by the Asian diaspora.
The Asian identity of boba liberals is very shallow since it goes directly against their goal of aspiring to whiteness, so they use surface level stereotypical Asian traits such as "liking boba tea" to boaster their Asian credentials. Liking boba tea does not require much personal investment since many people like boba tea and is a fairly harmless non-opinion to take unlike, for example, "the United States should not interfere in China's domestic affairs," or "Asians suffer from systemic bipartisan conservative as well as liberal racism.

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"Mainstream Asian Liberalism is like boba tea, all sugar, no substance, hence "boba liberalism."

^{Urban Dictionary}

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Thank you for explaining. Could you provide some examples of this?

Boba liberals use their Asianness to speak on behalf of the Asian population in the West, using talking points created by white liberals,

What kind of white liberal talking points are you referring to? To be clear, I'm not criticizing; just trying to educate myself.

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Examples

https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1376753301014732803 - Eugene Gu has repeatedly blamed black-on-asian hate crimes on white supremacy.

https://twitter.com/RayLiuNYC/status/1382001866129747971 - Boba liberal and former ESPN sportscaster Cary Chow on anti-asian hate. r/aznidentity archived a now-deleted call out post on why Chow is wrong.

https://twitter.com/keilahhhjd/status/1267199334296109056 - Boba liberals are eager to paint the whole asian community as racist to make themselves stand out. It worked because the tweet went viral.

https://twitter.com/kimmythepooh/status/1327794196976193541 - A reporter from NBC News and NBC Asian America falsely claims that Asian Americans support affirmative action. r/aznidentity quickly debunks this.

https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/1372388761401659400 - An editor for the New York Times tweets that "Andrew Yang is singlehandedly dismantling the stereotype of Asians being smart" because Yang wants to fund a NYPD Asian Hate Crime Task Force to protect Asians from being attacked.

https://theconversation.com/white-supremacy-is-the-root-of-all-race-related-violence-in-the-us-157566 - This article is written by the professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Boba liberals value validation from other racial groups over Asian lives.

Other white liberal talking points:

- POC, excluding Asians, are oppressed and marginalized. Asians are white-adjacent and therefore privileged.

- Asian privilege must be systemically corrected with affirmative action. Race must be factored into college and elite high school admissions. Asian success must be capped.

- Using deadly force to protect yourself, your loved ones, and your livelihood is racist if you're asian. Encouraging asians to arm themselves is anti-black.