Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Bubble tea" in English language version.
Traced back to Twitter user @diaspora_is_red (the original account is now suspended from Twitter), boba liberalism is described as "a type of mainstream liberal Asian-American politics" — one that, like the drink, is "a substanceless trend-chasing spectacle."
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: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)While bubble tea itself is neither inherently political nor bad, per se, some Asian Americans are critical of the dominant strain of Asian-American politics, called "boba liberalism," that the drink has come to represent in certain circles. Boba liberalism — is the "substanceless trend-chasing spectacle" that is mainstream Asian-American liberalism, derided as shallow, consumerist-capitalist, and robbed of meaning.
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: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)Traced back to Twitter user @diaspora_is_red (the original account is now suspended from Twitter), boba liberalism is described as "a type of mainstream liberal Asian-American politics" — one that, like the drink, is "a substanceless trend-chasing spectacle."
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