By: Nguyen

Am I woke? I don’t know. I’m still learning and growing as a young adult (almost hitting my thirties … not sure if I’m young or not LOL). However, I think I have seen “unwoke” Asians throughout my life and how they interact with each other, otherwise known as “virtue-signalling”, on social media. They usually “preach to the choir” about the injustices within Asian-American issues, but do so by speaking to things that do not contain any substance (e.g., the lack of quantitative and/or qualitative evidence) or coherent logic. Many “unwoke” Asians rely on personal attacks (ad hominem), generalizations, and/or anecdotal evidence (based on their own personal experience or they give a few rare incidents/circumstances instead of making a sound argument). I hope I don’t sound pretentious when writing this blog post (sorry in advance!). Read More