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   mooncake (mooncake@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jul-2024 16:53:55 JST mooncake

   StopAsianHate will never show out for Nyah Mway because StopAsianHate seeks out inclusion into the US body politic through police protection and carceral redress against extremely nebulous and ill-defined racial "hate"

   ("hate" in relation to Asians has come to refer to anything from a glare to shunning to a robbery. For more see https://online.ucpress.edu/esr/article/44/2/27/118428/On-InheritancesExamining-Contemporary-Anti-Asian )

   moreover, Nyah was a Burmese American child, and StopAsianHate has also implicitly relied on the racialization of victims of racial hate to be (mis)recognized as Chinese (this was most clear during the year 2020, when COVID-19 was racialized as Chinese and any Asian who could be read as Chinese would face that specific kind of racism). But it is hard, nearly impossible, for the StopAsianHate people to square these articulations of hate and hostility with execution by police, an entity they have supported in direct oppositon to "Defund the Police" and Black Lives Matter.

   Utica police's execution of Nyah Mway is perhaps more evidence of the ways that Southeast Asians and SE Asian refugees in America are in fact conditionally locked out of the "model minority" status that East Asians and some South Asians enjoy -- especially if the "model minority" status is not actually a reflection of grades/test scores but a reflection of income, class position, and presupposition of criminality ("the lever through which Asian-American decriminalization obtains its social truth—vis-a-vis a self-fulfilling white social imaginary that claims to witness, and subsequently proclaims the creeping ascendance of studious, law-abiding Asian minorities— is the same cultural-political fulcrum that historically militarizes white civil society against its more ominous Black-Brown racial
   antagonists and cultural pathogens" https://loneberry.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/asian-american-studies-in-age-of-prison-industrial-complex.pdf -- Children like Nyah Mway are, especially in the question of police violence, lumped into the latter and excluded from the former).