Escape From Plan A

Welcome, 2022! Teen, Jess, Liza, and Chris get together to talk about Marjorie Taylor Greene's ban from Twitter and social media's power to censor public dialogue. They also delve deeper into the cringey backstory of Corinne Tan, the new Asian American "American Girl" doll.

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TWITTER:

Chris (@JesuInToast)

Teen (@mont_jiang)

Liza (@aesthdistance1)

Jess (@cogitatotomato)

REFERENCED RESOURCES:

Andy Cohen's NYE rant about Bill de Blasio: https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1477280050747744257?s=20

Jay Caspian Kang's tweet on Marjorie Taylor Greene's Twitter ban: https://twitter.com/jaycaspiankang/status/1477665667402780672

Matt Taibbi's article on Loudon County: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/loudoun-county-virginia-a-culture

"American Girl" Corinne Tan book summary: https://www.americangirldollnews.com/post/corinne-meet-book-summary-with-spoilers-and-review

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Liza, Teen, Adam, Jong, Chris, and Filip all gather In this Christmas get-together of an episode to talk about how they spent their holidays, Helen Rosner's tweet about turning 40 during COVID, Jesse Kelly's comments about Chinese skulls, Trump's recent home runs about vaccines and diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics, and more.

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TWITTER:

Adam (@snbatman)

Chris (@JesuInToast)

Teen (@mont_jiang)

Liza (@aesthdistance1)

Jong (@calicoarse)

Filip (@filipgwriting)

REFERENCED RESOURCES:

Helen Rosner's tweet, lamenting turning 40 during COVID: https://twitter.com/hels/status/1472027056460472321?s=20

Jesse Kelly's comments about "Chinese skulls": https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1472019332507090947

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Jess, Adam, Teen and Jong discuss some dissenting takes on mental health. We place too much blame on our parents and childhood, and are burdened with memory into later life. Meanwhile our eagerness to assimilate into toxic social environments gives a pass to the mental burdens of daily life. The answer, my friend, is to trim your bush.

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TWITTER:

Jess (@cogitatotomato)

Adam (@snbatman)

Teen (@mont_jiang)

Jong (@calicoarse)

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Teen, Adam, and Chris talk about reactions to the Peng Shuai incident, desperate American attempts to spark a #MeToo in China, and how American moralism has ramped up as a direct reaction to its deteriorating material conditions.

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TWITTER:

Adam (@snbatman)

Chris (@JesuInToast)

Teen (@mont_jiang)

REFERENCED RESOURCES:

What Peng Shuai’s rape accusation says about China | Vox: https://www.vox.com/2021/12/5/22818595/peng-shuai-disappearance-china-me-too-sexual-assault

Tucker Carlson and Nigel Farage interview about COVID's "feminizing" effects: https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1468704702275670019?s=20

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Jess and Chris hit on a grab bag of topics, including Spotify Unwrapped, college debt forgiveness, Ariana Grande's "Asianfishing" thing, and some Christmas movie/TV recommendations.

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TWITTER:

Jess(@cogitatotomato)

Chris (@JesuIntoast)

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Chris and Filip talk about the differing reactions from the Asian American community to recent videos where the Asian victims fought back compared to when they didn't (namely, the Astroworld fight and the assault on the Philly subway).

GoFundMe for Christina Chen, the Asian American girl who was assaulted on Philly subway: https://www.gofundme.com/f/aufh6m-help-christina-recover/share?qid=90dc79e10b0b018f79a58da0d14eda88

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TWITTER:

Chris (@JesuInToast)

Filip (@filipgwriting)

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While we have much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, it's time for the Asian American Festivus, and ritualized Airing of Grievances. Jess and Teen express not a little anger and frustration about the mass gaslighting of Asian American emotions, particularly around our reactions to Black-on-Asian violence, and how suppression of an uncomfortable topic yields terrible results all around.

One of the few times you will hear Asian people going full on about this topic, without carefully tiptoeing around all the liberal-progressive boobytraps that have been set up to suppress the objections of the 'inconvenient' minority.

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Jess(@cogitatotomato)

Teen (@mont_jiang)

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Liza, Filip, and Chris talk about the new #1 movie on Netflix, 'Love Hard' starring Nina Dobrev and Jimmy O. Yang. Does a movie about an Asian guy using a white(-passing) guy's pic to catfish a woman veer into a trainwreck, or does it actually have some decent insights?

TWITTER:

Chris (@JesuInToast)

Liza (@aesthdistance1)

Filip (@filipgwriting)

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Jess, Chris, and Teen talk about the public's shifting attitudes towards wealth, billionaires, and power-by-inheritance, starting from the 1990s to contemporary times. References are made to The West Wing, Succession, Gossip Girl, Crazy Rich Asians, Silicon Valley, and more.

Chris, Filip, and Adam form a makeshift book club after reading Jay Caspian Kang's "The Loneliest Americans." They particularly focus on the chapter on Asian American male online spaces, especially since it actually features Adam in one of its narrative arcs. Other points of discussion include what it would mean to listen more to working-class Asian Americans and why there was some Twitter controversy over this book by those who hadn't even read it.

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TWITTER:

Chris (@JesuInToast)

Adam (@snbatman)

Filip (@filipgwriting)

REFERENCED RESOURCES:

American Accomplice by Matthew Shen Goodman | n+1: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-39/essays/american-accomplice/

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