Just unpacking Dr. Ford’s response on her memories: epinephrine and norepinephrine are the adrenaline hormones that underlie the body’s “fight-or-flight” response. In the brain, they act as neurotransmitters to heighten immediate awareness in response to fear. The adrenaline-driven fear state sears specific memories of a trauma into the brain by linking them to the fear, but that heightened awareness is often incomplete. One will remember laughter of the attacker or some mundane detail of the room, but perhaps not the house’s address.

Check this @thecrimson article out for a deep dive into an Asian American student’s successful application into Harvard, including the glowing review he received by the admissions panel. thecrimson.com/article/2018/9… The key takeaway here is sort of what we’ve been saying all along: academic scores aren’t the full picture and only used to assess basic competency. What’s more important is for a student to highlight how they are unique, and how they will contribute to the Harvard community.

So many of us deal with the kind of trolling and online harassment that @pronounced_ing is highlighting here and in her previous thread. This type of coordinated abuse is grounded in misogynistic rationale that Asian American women/feminists need to be put back in our place.

https://twitter.com/pronounced_ing/status/1032868827464454146

The purpose of this type of abuse campaign is to terrorize Asian American women into silence through repeated harassment, belittlment, and occasionally threats. Sadly, it is too often effective; over the years I know several women who have felt forced to stop talking bc of this.

Important ethnic disaggregation of Asian American survey data shows that there is a widening gap between Chinese Americans and other Asian Americans on affirmative action.

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While a majority of Chinese Americans now oppose affirmative action, we should also remember that many Chinese Americans (myself included) support holistic review and race-conscious affirmative action. Campus diversity benefits ALL students.

So disappointed that this is how some activists in our community choose to engage their activism. | In fighting homeless camp, Irvine's Asians win, but at a cost latimes.com/local/lanow/la… Many of these anti-homeless activists are middle-class and upper-middle-class East Asian Americans. Frustrating to see a lack of self-reflection on that class privilege.

Sigh. This has been literally the full 18 years of Reappropriate’s existence. This is how a fringe group of AsAm masculinist extremists work to silence AsAm women and feminists.

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(Sorry I tweeted this and then immediately went into an appointment requiring two hours of radio silence. I had more to say.)

Just really, really, really not in the mood for people using immigrants as model minority wedges against kneeling black athletes today. "Immigrants love America so much they flock to our shores. These athletes should learn to see America the same way." #wedgepolitics anew