gihigugma:

youre honestly kidding yourself if you dont think weeaboos and koreaboos yellowfacing affects actual e and se asian people. a lot of people think actual mixed kids are faking their race because there are people lying about being asian for their fetish, and the stereotyping of e and se asian people deems people who dont look a certain way as not asian. actual asian people are told they aren’t asian, but there are racists who are praised for “looking asian” when theyre not. yellowfacing follows this strict stereotype of what an east asian person looks like. it perpetuates the idea that there is only one way for them to look, so when actual east and southeast asian people don’t meet this oversexualized and infantilized stereotype of who they’re “"supposed to be,”“ they are met with backlash. they are invalidated for being an actual 3-dimensional human being and not a petite pretty stereotype.

and no matter how you want to twist it, using someone’s race as a costume will always be racist.