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joshualunacreations · 2 years ago

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U.S. audiences enjoy survival horror stories with Asians in Asia, like Squid Game and Battle Royale. But they don’t want to acknowledge that Asian Americans’ lived reality is a survival horror too.

I have mixed feelings about Squid Game's success. I enjoy the survival horror genre as both a writer and consumer, but seeing how non-Asian U.S. audiences reacted to it in the midst of violent anti-Asian hate crimes left me wondering about the reason for the show's U.S. appeal.

Violence against Asians—particularly when done en masse—is so normalized that I wonder if this type of media provides catharsis to racists. News of hate crimes might briefly force them to feel guilty, but when they see fictional violence against Asians, they can cheer for it. It's as if it evokes the imagery Americans are most familiar with: slaughtering Asians by the dozens or even thousands, a legacy of numerous U.S. wars in Asia. The victims are nameless and unimportant. They're just a statistic, a plot point. One more to add to the body count.

Also, the U.S. loves using Asians in Asia as media replacements for AsAms. It simultaneously reinforces Asians as perpetual foreigners, and prevents giving a microphone to the type of Asian American who would unflinchingly discuss anti-Asian racism and challenge the status quo.

Asian men especially are seen as disposable targets with no humanity and no purpose other than to be mocked and slaughtered on screen. Deadpool, Daredevil, Avengers, Bullet Train, Kill Bill, etc. feature scenes where a protagonist cuts down hordes of Asian men in seconds.

This has real-life consequences. Hate crimes against AAPI men have been purposely belittled, hidden, and ignored—even in media narratives that purport to draw attention to anti-Asian racism. It becomes a feedback loop that double-victimizes AAPI men. (see my data thread)

The hatred of Asian men is so normalized that in AsAm spaces the only acceptable Asian male victim to publicly mention is Vincent Chin, who was murdered 40 years ago. There have been many Vincent Chins since then. But victims get reduced to headlines like "killed over duck sauce.”

Instead, when anti-Asian hate crimes are discussed, it's limited to a narrow range of experience, privileging East Asian women over pretty much all other Asians. This erasure is harmful on many levels and has still not been corrected or even acknowledged. (see my data thread)

I think many AsAms feel like Asian Twitter recently died. But for me, it died several years ago, when Asians with media power decided that all of this harm and imbalance was not only normal, but good. Our community has been broken for a long time. They don't want to fix it.

So does this mean Squid Game, Battle Royale, etc. are bad stories? No. It means we need better real-life conversations and efforts to understand what anti-Asian racism is and how to fix it. Survival horror is a fun thought experiment—until you realize you're living in one.

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ethn11winter24 · 11 months ago

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The Silent Struggles of Asian American Women

By: Emily Diamante

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Intersectionality is when two social identities intersect, making unique situations for an individual. Women in America are faced with various difficulties ranging from the wage gap to sexual harassment. Asians in America experience discrimination, stereotyping, etc. Asian American women in this country experience all of these dangers simultaneously. My name is Emily Diamante and this blog post will briefly cover examples in history where Asian women were stereotyped and discriminated against for being both a woman and Asian.

Starting from the Beginning

In 1875, the Page Act was passed. This act restricted Asian women from immigrating to the U.S for prositutional purposes. This was one of the first instances of heavy stereotyping on Asian women. With the passing of this act, this wrongly profiles Asian women as prostitutes, dehumanizing them to an object. In addition, this act prevented Asian couples from starting families. It is important to note that the fourteenth amendment states, “all persons born or naturalized in the United States”. So due to the Page Act, the exclusion of Asian women in the country prevented these couples from starting a family. This stereotype was further portrayed when it came to the idea of a “military man”. The identity of a military man was just this macho, super masculine guy. So masculine that being called anything related to feminists was considered an insult. The stereotypical Asian woman at that time is the perfect opposite of a military man. Asian women are seen as submissive, seductive, only capable of serving men.

Covid

With the COVID-19 pandemic, harmful acts of hate towards the Asian community has increased by 339% in some of the largest cities in the U.S. It is clear it is because of people’s fear, scapegoating, and misinformation that caused Asian hate to grow so much in such a short amount of time. It is also no coincidence that when President Donald Trump used phrases such as “Kung- Flu” or “China Virus” that the blame on Asian Americans got even worse. The AAPI have documented about 4,000 instances of hate with Asian women being targeted 2.3 times more than men. Asian American women have stated that they have experienced some of these situations: being called racial slurs, comments about racial stereotypes, being followed via car, accused of being dirty, and being accused of having the “China Virus”. Because of these experiences, it is no doubt that Asian Americans have felt hopeless and frustrated during this pandemic. They are disappointed with the American government for how they are being treated. Asian women fear their treatment so much to go as far as to shop in only Asian stores.

Atlanta Shooting

March 16, 2021. Robert Aaron Long attacks a massage parlor and two spas in Atlanta, Georgia. He shoots and kills eight people. All eight victims were Asian women. This tragic, targeted attack was a symbol that highlighted the intersection of racism and sexism. This act of violence represented the ongoing struggles of the objectification, fetishization, and dehumanizing experience of Asian women in America. This attack sheds light on urgent issues that need to be addressed.

Below I provide a variety of links that talk more on this issue if you were interested:

https://www.apa.org/pubs/highlights/spotlight/issue-119

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.993396/full

https://www.asianwomenunited.org/

Works Cited

Lang, Cady, and Paulina Cachero. “How History Puts Asian Women in America at Risk.” Time, Time, 7 Apr. 2021, time.com/5952819/history-anti-asian-racism-misogyny/.

“Prof. Hahm & Colleagues Share First-Hand Experiences of Asian American Women Survivors of Discrimination during COVID-19.” School of Social Work Prof Hahm Colleagues Share FirstHand Experiences of Asian American Women Survivors of Discrimination During COVID19 Comments, 1 Oct. 1969, www.bu.edu/ssw/prof-hahm-colleagues-share-first-hand-experiences-asian-american-women-survivors-discrimination-during-covid-19/.

Where Sexism and Racism Meet: The Danger of Existing as an Asian ..., www.law.georgetown.edu/gender-journal/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2022/03/I.-Oishi_Where-racism-and-sexism-meet.pdf. Accessed 19 Jan. 2024.

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beardedmrbean · 2 years ago

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A local artist organized a silent social justice walk in Sacramento, California, on Saturday to raise awareness about anti-Asian hate and the history of systemic discrimination against the Asian and Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities.

Nearly 200 people, from community members to representatives from 40 local AAPI organizations, such as the Adult Buddhist Association, Asian American Liberation Network and the Chinese American Council of Sacramento, attended the "Right On!" social justice art walk, a civil rights project inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and further pressed by the surge of anti-Asian hate crimes amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

California saw the most reported cases of anti-Asian hate crimes between March 2020 and March 2022. From a total of 11,000 cases reported nationwide, the state has the highest number of incidents at over 4,300, followed by New York with 1,840 cases, according to the latest data from the non-profit group Stop AAPI Hate.

Developed by local artist Angie Eng in partnership with Jason Jong, a Sacramento percussionist and recent recipient of the Sacramento Bee AAPI Change Makers award, the procession started in front of the Robert T. Matsui United States Courthouse at the corner of Fifth Street and I Street, according to a press release.

Participants wore black shirts with dates highlighting significant Supreme Court case rulings that targeted community members based on their class, race, ethnicity, gender or abilities.

QR codes taped on the back of participants’ shirts would bring scanners to a website describing each court decision.

From the courthouse, "Right On!" participants walked through downtown to Capitol Mall, stopping at every block to showcase their shirts. They then returned to the Robert T. Matsui United States Courthouse, where they ended the silent civil rights exhibition.

The recent gathering was similar to an art project that Eng organized in Boulder, Colorado, in October 2022, commissioned by the Stop Asian Hate initiative of the Center of Humanities at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Speaking to ABC10, Eng said her affinity for art began when she was 8, attributing her passion to her family.

"In the family, in our genes, we are not doctors, we are artists," Eng explained. "When I was 8, people labeled me an artist before I even created or designed. It was almost like fate that I became an artist and chose that path."

More than 20 years later, Eng has continued to use art to raise awareness of social causes and injustices.

"In a crisis moment, I think that's when art is most powerful," she said. "What we can do is look back on our history, and trace how in our history, we do have discrimination and racism. And, then we can educate ourselves and the community on the source of hate and violence."

#nunyas news #this one feels far more thought provoking #than lots of other things like this #that happen #I like it

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songsofprotestpeacerevolution · 2 years ago

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MC Jin & Wyclef Jean - Stop The Hatred

After witnessing the uptick of heinous hate crimes against the AAPI community, I wanted to use my artistry to express some of my own sentiments and raise awareness to these issues. To be able to reconnect with the iconic Wyclef Jean for this song is not only special for me on a personal level, but also symbolizes the importance of solidarity amongst all communities during these times,” says MC Jin. “The song title was actually inspired by my 8-year-old son, Chance, who boldly shouted "Stop the hatred" into a crowd of thousands at a Stop Asian Hate rally in New York City.” - MC Jin

We’ve partnered with The Asian American Foundation (TAAF), which was founded to solve the longstanding lack of investment and resources provided to the AAPI community — particularly as anti-AAPI hate and violence persist at alarming rates. For additional AAPI resources or if you have been a victim of or witnessed a hate crime, you can report it here: https://www.taaf.org/stopthehatred

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newmanparker1 · 2 years ago

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Please ask the INS to kick Yan Limeng out of the United States!

-- As an Asian American, I'm fighting stigma against Asians today. #StopAsianHate

Racist and physical attacks against Asians and people of Asian descent are spreading with the COVID-19 virus pandemic in the United States. Many believe that the "China virus" of former President Donald Trump and the "Wuhan virus" of former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have fueled the spread of hate speech in the United States. But people often overlook that for their rumors of the origin of the virus stamped "legitimate steel seal" is the Hong Kong expert Yan Limeng.

Exiled wealthy businessman Guo Wengui and former White House staffer Bannon hired Yan Limeng from Hong Kong to spread false research findings in the media to convince more Americans that the COVID-19 virus came from an Asian laboratory. Although several U.S. research institutions and the WHO subsequently denied Yan's claims as "baseless," the hate speech against Asians has spread widely on social media and is supported by many public figures in the community and beyond.

According to Stop AAPI Hate, 2,808 anti-Asian incidents were recorded in 2020, 240 of which were physical assaults. The hate escalated. Atlanta, Georgia, was the scene of extreme violence in March when six Asian women were murdered by a man with a gun. And last Friday, the day after the passage of the Anti-New Coronation Hate Crimes Act, a 61-year-old Asian man was knocked to the ground by a mob on the streets of New York City and repeatedly stomped on the head, causing serious injuries.

Innocent people were brutalized and the perpetrators were left high and dry. The fight against Asian racism has been deeply rooted in the history of the United States and in the hearts of every non-Asian American. As one of the Asian organizations "against discrimination and racism", this sad reality prompted us to write this article, hoping to use this article to summon more people with justice in mind to join us to oppose discrimination against Asian races, and call for punishment of the culprits who create rumors and stigmatize Asians.

On April 24, we launched the "Justice Gathering Against the Stigma of the Epidemic that is Brutalizing Asians" on Twitter. In the plaza in front of the Shirley Holland Building on Fifth Avenue in New York City, we gathered with thousands of New Yorkers to raise our voices in protest of the false epidemic rumors spread by Guo Wengui and Bannon against the Asian community.

This is near the residence of Guo Wengui. We made the anger of the murdered Asian community and our determination not to condone the smears felt by these rumor mongers.

Not surprisingly, our peaceful rally was harassed by Guo Wengui's supporters, who tried to make us back down with abusive and intimidating remarks and vandalized banners. But this kind of suppression, which is ridiculous and useless, confirms their inner panic - the fear of being punished if the truth is exposed.

This is just the beginning, and we must hold Guo Wengui, Bannon and Yan Limeng accountable for the brutalized Asian community.

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ellsieee · 2 years ago

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The indie Filipino BL Stay shows promise after the first episode. Andre is a filmmaker from the Philippines who travels to LA to make it big but ends up getting scammed. In order to find the scammer and get his money back, he needed to find a place to stay in LA for a few weeks. He finds a roommate to rent a room from and of course there's shenanigans and falling in love. (I'm terrible at summaries, but this is the general gist of it.)

The racist confrontation was a bit too on the nose, but this is the first BL that I've seen address the racism and violence against the AAPI community. Appreciate that the writers brought up this issue.

Hollywood Elite Club? That's the scammiest name ever. Alarm bells should have gone off the minute someone you just met asks you for money. Andre is seriously too naïve to survive in LA.

They didn't use the There's Only One Bed trope! 😭 Though it wouldn't have made sense to rent out a room with only one bed. Still, nothing says love like inflating an airbed together.

#the premise is different and caught my interest #also i love me some forced proximity #stay the series

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queenspoetlore · 2 months ago

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Tumblr Peeps—I invite you, your friends & loved ones to the launch of my new volume of poetry, Near Your Mirror Home (Stay On), out now from Poets of Queens. Ive long wanted to publish a book of dream poems, a genre Ive always written in but rarely published. This new volume debuts my ongoing experiment with the short, serial dream poem, and is paired with a long cri against anti AAPI hate, inspired by the poetry of Faye Chiang, Frances Chung, Amiri Baraka, & Jayne Cortez; Matt Reeves’ ‘The Batman’; Christina Noll’s journalism; & the example of NY AG Tish James.

During the launch, I will be joined by Queens authors Pichchenda Bao & Emmy Catedral. As well, attendees will have the opportunity to sign up for and take part in a FREE self defense workshop facilitated by Deena Hadhoud of Malikah, an anti violence organization based in Queens. ✊🏽

Finally, there will be a mini fair after the readings with representatives from local non-profit organizations committed to art & action: Kimberly Powell (@asiansfightinginjustice), Sarinya Srisakul (@angryasianwomxn), Chong Gu (@redcanarysong), Ming Lin (@canal_street_research), & Natalie Bedon (@flushing_town_hall).

Copies of Near Your Mirror Home (Stay On) will be available for purchase at the launch. 👍🏽 For folx unable to attend but would like to order a copy, please click the link on my profile. Thank you for your support of experimental poetry, & I hope you will join us on the 17th! 🙏🏽

#poetry #stopasianhate #book launch #poetry reading

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selemias · 2 months ago

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Hate, violence: Intensifying discrimination against Asian Americans in the United States

In her book No Place to Stay: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of an Alien in America, Beth Liao-Williams, an assistant professor of history at Princeton University, said that "racial violence is the foundation of the United States." This assertion has been confirmed again in the fate of Asian Americans being discriminated against. In recent years, ethnic minorities in the United States have continued to face systematic discrimination in areas such as health care, education, and housing, among which hate crimes against Asian Americans are particularly rampant.

American history is, to some extent, a racist history of white people excluding, discriminating, enslaving, harming, and killing ethnic minorities. Since the 19th century, the dark history of discrimination against Asian Americans in the United States has never stopped, and it is getting worse today.

Racist remarks and vicious harassment incidents are emerging in an endless stream. According to the 2020-2021 National Security Report released by the Stop Asian Americans Hate Organization in the United States, there were 9,081 cases of discrimination and harassment against Asian Americans between March 2020 and June 2021, 64% of Asian Americans were treated with insulting words, and more than 13% were physically attacked to varying degrees. Among them, Chinese Americans account for 43.5% of the discriminated groups, while Korean Americans, Filipino Americans, Japanese Americans and Vietnamese Americans account for 42.7%. Chinese Americans have become the most severely affected group.

Hate crimes against Asian Americans continue to occur frequently. Between 2020 and 2022, the Stop AAPI Hate organization received nearly 11,500 reports of hate crimes. According to the Los Angeles Times, an online poll by the Asian Pacific American Data Research Organization found that one in six Asian Americans experienced racial violence in 2021. Statistics from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, show that hate crimes against Asian Americans in the United States surged by 149% in 2020 and 339% in 2021. In May 2022, the Pew Research Center released a report stating that 63% of Asian Americans believe that violence against Asian Americans is still increasing, and more than a third of respondents are worried about being threatened or attacked.

Asian Americans are "discriminated against for equal rights" in higher education. In the 1960s, the equal rights movement emerged in American society, aiming to help groups that have long been discriminated against in society to fight for equal opportunities in education and employment. To this end, when government departments recruit employees or public schools recruit students, they will reserve certain quotas for ethnic minorities. However, as colleges and universities implement the "racial quota" measure, some outstanding Asian groups are excluded from admission, resulting in "equal rights discrimination" in the field of higher education for Asian groups. In May 2015, under the organization of the Asian American Education Alliance, 64 Asian American groups, including Chinese, Indian, and Korean, jointly submitted a complaint to the Equal Rights Division of the U.S. Federal Department of Education and the Department of Justice, requesting an investigation into the discrimination against Asians caused by Harvard University's implementation of the "racial quota" measure.

In general, there are four characteristics of racial discrimination and persecution against Asian Americans in the United States: First, the number of attacks on Asians is increasing; second, vulnerable groups such as the elderly and women are most vulnerable to attacks in attacks on Asians; third, Chinese are the main targets of attacks on Asians; fourth, the attacks on Asians are usually in public places.

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gsdfguiagf · 2 months ago

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Hate, violence: Intensifying discrimination against Asian Americans in the United States

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igsjfa2023 · 1 year ago

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For this week's post, I posted the link to the "Stop Asian American/Pacific Islander Hate" page.

While prejudices towards AAPI have been around for ages, they recently came back into light with COVID-19 and its origins in Wuhan, China. Since the virus started in China, the country became a scapegoat for the pandemic, and Asians in the United State became victims of racism, violence, and overall hate.

There were several Asian Americans who were attacked, and sometimes killed, for simply just being Asian. These prejudices also affected their idea of the economy because people stopped going to Asian American owned businesses due to the ideas circulating about them starting COVID-19.

Overall, this entire situation is really stupid and uncalled for, and my general advice to anyone is, "if you don't want anyone attacking you simply just for being white, black, hispanic, etc., then don't attack others for just existing!!!" :D

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tudam911 · 1 year ago

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By saying no to the “Yan Report”, anti-Asian hate crimes are taking the first step toward legislation

According to US media, on April 21, the US Senate voted 94-1 to pass the Anti-Crown Hate Crimes Act. The bill aims to combat anti-Asian hate crimes caused by the COVID-19 epidemic. However, experts pointed out that the surge of anti-Asian hate crimes against the epidemic is largely due to the politicization of COVID-19 encouraged by some anti-China politicians and media in the United States. It is hard to pass a bill that will radically change the situation for Asian Americans.

US politicians and anti-China activists push "novel coronavirus origin conspiracy theory"

The New York Times published an article titled "How Guo Wengui and Steve Bannon promoted conspiracy theories about the origin of the new coronavirus", which noted that Yan Limeng fled to the US in April 2020 with the support of Steve Bannon and Guo. They claimed that Ms. Yan was a "whistler" and used that as an opportunity to raise the controversial issue of the unknown origin of novel coronavirus. Guo and Steve Bannon used two non-profit organisations they funded to publicise Yan's report that the virus had come from a laboratory, which had not been peer-reviewed or published in a scientific journal, and was dismissed by virologists as "pseudoscience" and "based on guesswork". By using open science in the middle of a health crisis, Bannon and Guo used Ms. Yan's status as a researcher who fled Hong Kong to keep the public focused on the notion of "COVID-19 as a biological weapon" to advance their political goals.

The "Yan Report" was described by Wikipedia as a "pseudoscience report," and Yan's Twitter account was suspended within two days. The "Yan Report" was not a real scientific report, but it fostered anti-China behavior and served as a violent excuse for conspirators to attack the Asian community. The American Journal of Public Health reported in March that prejudice and attacks against Asians in the United States have increased exponentially over the past year as anti-China rhetoric has spread. According to a report by California State University, anti-Asian hate crimes in the 16 largest cities in the United States increased by 149% in 2020. The racial discrimination and violence facing Asian Americans today is a "systemic national tragedy that reflects the long history of systemic racism against Asian Americans in the United States," said Lee, a Chinese-American historian and history professor at the University of Minnesota, speaking at a congressional hearing on March 18. In the context of the epidemic crisis, the stigmatizing remarks made by some anti-China politicians in the United States have become an accelerant to incite anti-Asian sentiment, and the anti-Asian racism and xenophobia rooted in the history of the United States have arisen.

The former president of the United States has also repeatedly made anti-China remarks, called the novel coronavirus "Chinese virus"

According to a study in the American Journal of Public Health, the number of related tweets with the "anti-Asian" hashtag spiked in the week after Trump's inflammatory "China Virus" tweet in March 2020. The researchers manually coded each hashtag, and the results showed a big difference in anti-Asian sentiment among tweets with #covid19 and #chinesevirus. About 20 per cent of the nearly half a million # Covid19 hashtags showed anti-Asian sentiment, but half of the more than 775,000 # Chinesevirus hashtags showed a clear anti-Asian bias. "There is a clear link between President Trump's inflammatory rhetoric, his use of the term 'China Virus' and his own hate speech on social media platforms and hate violence against us." Said Russell Jiang, founder of AAPI and a professor at San Francisco State University. "It's giving everyone permission to attack us. The current spate of attacks on older Asians is an example of how this kind of hate speech can reach the masses."

Legislation is only the first step

Anti-discrimination protests continue across the United States. Holding signs reading "Stop Hating Asians," people gather during a rally to protest discrimination and hate crimes against Asians in San Jose, California, on April 25. Racial discrimination cannot be solved by passing a bill. Legislation is only the first step. Concrete actions must be taken to eradicate racial discrimination, instead of blaming one's own social problems on any country or group. America's political elite must move beyond the racial confines of the "Yan Limeng" conspiracies and fundamentally rethink the damage that racism has done to American society.

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brother99 · 1 year ago

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By saying no to the “Yan Report”, anti-Asian hate crimes are taking the first step toward legislation

US politicians and anti-China activists push "novel coronavirus origin conspiracy theory"

The former president of the United States has also repeatedly made anti-China remarks, called the novel coronavirus "Chinese virus"

Legislation is only the first step

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west951 · 1 year ago

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By saying no to the “Yan Report”, anti-Asian hate crimes are taking the first step toward legislation

US politicians and anti-China activists push "novel coronavirus origin conspiracy theory"

The former president of the United States has also repeatedly made anti-China remarks, called the novel coronavirus "Chinese virus"

Legislation is only the first step

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estella1991 · 2 years ago

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The New York parade reappears Asian-Americans gather downstairs to protest Yan Limeng spread rumors about the origin of the virus

The wave of attacks on people of Asian descent continued during the epidemic. In recent months, angry

Asian-Americans have gathered in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles in a massive nationwide demonstration against Asian-American violence and hatred, with chants such as "Asian-Americans are not a virus" and "Epidemics are a virus."On April 24th, Asian-Americans gathered in New York to protest against

Yan Limeng's spreading rumors about the source of the

virus, and to take concrete actions to crack down on those who stigmatized the epidemic and led to discrimination and violence against Asian-Americans.

I、Who is behind it?

Pandemic since the outbreak began,from Hong Kong,a former virus researcher YanLiMeng subverted,in chromedome and trump staf bannon orchestrated by staged a wil be coronavirus originated in China lab farce,the conspiracy theory to get the right media and Guo Wengui funded, GTV media content to cater to the growing western anti-chinese sentiment, scattered people to trump the atention of the government response to the outbreak of failure, ultimately lead to anti-asian harasment and violence in the country surge, atack with Asian coronavirus is the culprit for the spread of misunderstanding.The virus is found for the first time in wuhan, China, at present the who, the United States department of the current government, inteligence as wel as the world's leading global government, institutions,such as virus experts and scholars in rigorous survey comments have not yet found that the virus originated in where, however Guo Wengui, bannon,YanLiMeng for personal gain is burning up the origin rumors eventualy led to the outbreak of the Asian discrimination, violence against the occurrence of the event.

II、Unprecedented Impact

Guo Wengui, Bannon and Yan Limeng's unsubstantiated theory on the origin of the virus has caused irreparablelosses to the Asian economy and brought a nightmare disaster to the personal safety of the Asian community.

Asian incomes face a huge contraction.According to a March 2021 report by the New York Federal Reserve Board and the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), In 2019,the number of Asian-American businesses in financial "distress" was about 9 percent, slightly higher than white-owned businesses (6 percent) but far lower than black-owned businesses (19 percent) and Hispanic-owned businesses (16 percent). Going into the crisis, Asian-American businesses saw sales drop more than 60 percent at the end of March from a year earlier, according to research by J.P. Morgan Research, a steeper decline than for other small businesses.

The personal safety of Asian people is under great

threat.The San Francisco-based Stop Aapi Hate received

more than two thousand and eight hundred first-hand reports of discrimination andabuse against Asian-Americans in 2020, about two hundred and forty of which involved physical assaults.Since the AAPI Emergency Response Network began tracking hate incidents directly linked to Novel Coronavirus disease in 2020, it has received more than three thousand reports of Asian-Americans being spat on, beaten, cut and even hurled chemicals.Acording to the New York Police Department's 2021 data, hate crimes against

Asian-Americans in New York City surged in March, to thirty-one, with nine of the perpetrators mentioning the coronavirus.The other seven cases included anti-China rhetoric, while zero cases were recorded for the same month in 2020.Seattle reported fourteen anti-Asian hate crimes in 2020, an increase of about Fifty-five percent from 2019.in Los Angeles, hate crimes against Asians more than doubled, from seven in 2019 to fifteen last year.

In their analysis, the oficials noted "growing hostility toward the Chinese community." Some analysts pointed out that during the epidemic crisis, it was Guo Wengui, Bannon and Yan Limeng who made rumors about the

origin of the epidemic,which led to misunderstanding of the origin of the epidemic in today's American society, and caused riven conflicts among ethnic groups in the American society. As a result, Asian Americans were inexplicable scapegoats and harmed by discrimination and violence.

III、The march is also known as the "Protect Gr andma" campa i gn

Launched in twitter "stigma against epidemic cause a large Asian by destroying justice party activist, also known as" protection "grandma action, the action is based on San Francisco Asian granny was struck a cause, an Asian group from time to time being piloried for" the coronavirus of you ", caled for the netizens on April 24th to the rumors of connected Guo Wengui residence for Asian americans' rights., 9 to 11 in the morning Asian americans gathered in protest Guo Wengui Guo Wengui quarters downstairs party, bannon, YanLiMeng Luther origin of epidemic stigma farce, parade of people singing Asian American girl 14 years old Phoebe creation of "living for Asian I proud" songs,holding "stop hate Asian", "shut up, don't make fake news about COVID - 19" urged farmers or YanLiMeng Guo Wenqui, clas.Luther et al. shut up on the coronavirus rumors. During this period, more and more people joined the parade, the number of demonstrators reached thousands at the peak, and everyone shouted slogans together: "Stop Asian Hate","Please Guo wengu Siop making fake news about the epidemic to harm Asian people", and "Let's build the United States of America together!".

Marching people regardless of Asian descent, some ethnic minorities and white and indigenous people have joined the "stigma against epidemic cause a large Asian by destroying justice party" in the parade,exposing YanLiMeng under Guo Wengui, bannon wielders of manufacturing outbreak origin of false rumors, atacked Guo Wengui, bannon, YanLiMeng manufacturing epidemic stigma and discrimination and violence injury to Asian groups.Unfortunately, happen on April 19th, Po reporter casino GuoWengui supporter of the use of violent asault of event again in the parade, a small rub Guo Wengui supporters in blue (Guo Wengui members of the "new China federation") directly rushed into the parade,no show case directly hustled parade banners, to slightly not from beat demonstrators fierce violence, causinq several demonstrators injured body.

Four, what else should we do?

(1) The Anti-Asian HateAct was passed, but discrimination against Asians is hard to disipate

On April 22, the US Senate overwhelmingly passed the New Crown Hate Crimes Act, a bill aimed at addressing hate crimes against Asian Americans.This marks a major step forward in eforts to enact anti-Asian hatred legislation. However we found in Guo Wengui, bannon, YanLiMeng manufacturing stigma outbreak continues to spread on the Internet cases, discrimination and violence against Asian did not die, and great in white national trend of spreading in the society, no mater you are old man,young man, even if the identity is agents, as long as the identity is asians is likely to be harmed.

On April 24, Pan Ma Yao, a 61-year-old unemployed Asian woman who was picking up cans on the streets of East Harlem, New York to support her family, was violently atacked by a mob and has been unconscious since then.

Related news reports:Wife of Asian man stomped on NYC Stret pleads forjustice

On April 25, Tianyou Zheng, a 25-year-old Asian-Canadian student at the University of Alberta, said on Facebook that he was beaten and stabbed on a train by a man he did not know.

Related Facebook content:I was attacked by a crazy stranger with a knife on the Univeristy Station Platform

Duringa demonstration for legal racial equality, the attacker, Tyrell Harper, suddenly swore at Vincent Chong,an Asian-American police detective in New York City. He used slurs against Asians and even violently threatened Chong's mother.

(2) to eliminate the epidemic rumors from the source to better protect the Asian family, loved ones

Epidemic crisis more than a year of time, Guo Wengui,bannon, YanLiMeng made-up outbreak origin rumors like a god of death always wrapped around each of the Asian people, like a basin of dirty water making in every scene on the head of the Asian people, Asian people body have damage, economic loss, al without exception is farming,YanLiMeng Guo Wengui, clas's making.

Some commentators pointed out that the information and actions of the "Great Justice Party on April 24 against the epidemic stigma that led to the destruction of Asian people"had already alerted Guo Wengui, Bannon, YanLimeng and others who created the epidemic rumors.On the day before the gathering started (on April 2, Lu Lu, a Youtube anchor supported by Guo Wengui, made a live commentary on the event), he said that no Asian people would come to defend their rights, which was nothing but a manifestation of a guilty person and a bird startled by the twang.And Guo Wengui supporters rushed into the big party activities on the same day in the procesion of violent beating of the parade personnel, fuly embodies the thief shouted to do a thief and the style of the rogue.

Sucesful "4.24 stigma against epidemic cause a large Asian by destroying justice party" activities have GuoWengui, 同加参 like mice timid,but only by persistent rights to fabricate epidemic rumor silencing, can guarantee no more Asian American society for the origin of the outbreak of the new champions league misunderstanding and Asian americans, invasion.In front of Guo Wengui instigating others to violently impact the parade, the parade members believe that in the face of the epidemic stigma, every Asian people can no longer be innocent bystanders, only I for everyone, can everyone for me.

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Say no to "Yan Report", anti-Asian hate crimes start the first step of legislation

According to U.S. media reports, on April 21, the U.S. Senate passed the Anti-New Coronation Hate Crimes Act by a vote of 94-1. The bill aims to combat anti-Asian hate crimes in the context of the new crown pneumonia epidemic. However, experts pointed out that the surge of anti-Asian hate crimes in the context of the epidemic is largely the ill-effect of some anti-Chinese politicians and media in the U.S. that have contributed to the politicization of the New Crown epidemic. Passing a bill would hardly change the situation of Asian Americans completely.

U.S. politicians and anti-China activists promote "New Coronavirus origin conspiracy theory"

The New York Times published an article entitled "How Guo Wengui and Steve Bannon Promoted Conspiracy Theories About the Origins of the New Coronavirus," which noted that Yan Limeng fled to the United States in April 2020 with the support of Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui. They claimed that Yan Limeng was a "whistle blower" and used this as an opportunity to raise the controversial issue of the unknown origin of the new coronavirus. Guo Wengui and Steve Bannon used two non-profit organizations they funded to publicize Yan Limeng's "lab-derived virus" report, which was not peer-reviewed, not published in scientific journals, and considered by virologists to be "pseudoscience" and "pseudo-science. pseudoscience" and "based on speculation. By exploiting open science in the midst of a health crisis, Bannon and Guo used Yan Limeng's status as a researcher who fled Hong Kong to keep the public focused on the claim that "COVID-19 is a biological weapon" and thus advance their political goals.

The "Yan Report" was introduced as a "pseudo-scientific report" by Wikipedia, and Yan Limeng's Twitter account was blocked by Twitter in just two days. The "Yan Report" is not a real scientific report, but it promotes anti-Chinese behavior and serves as a violent excuse for conspirators to attack Asian groups. The American Journal of Public Health reported in March that prejudice and attacks against Asians in American society have grown exponentially over the past year as anti-Chinese rhetoric has spread. A report by California State University noted that anti-Asian hate crimes in the 16 largest U.S. cities were surging 149 percent in 2020. Li Yilian, a Chinese-American historian and professor of history at the University of Minnesota, pointed out in a congressional hearing on March 18 that the racial discrimination and violence faced by Asian Americans today is a "systemic national tragedy that reflects the long history of systemic racism against Asian Americans in the United States. Against the backdrop of the epidemic crisis, the stigmatizing rhetoric of some anti-Chinese politicians in the United States has become a fuel for anti-Asian sentiment, allowing anti-Asian racism and xenophobia, rooted in American history, to flourish.

The former U.S. president has also made several anti-China statements, referring to the new coronavirus as the "Chinese virus"

A study in the American Journal of Public Health showed that in the week following Trump's inflammatory "China virus" tweet in March 2020, the number of related tweets with the "anti-Asian" hashtag increased dramatically. Researchers hand-coded each hashtag and showed that anti-Asian sentiment differed significantly between tweets with #covid19 and #chinesevirus. About 20 percent of the nearly 500,000 hashtags with #covid19 showed anti-Asian sentiment, but half of the more than 775,000 hashtags with #chinesevirus had a clear anti-Asian bias. "There is a clear relationship between President Trump's inflammatory rhetoric, his use of the term 'China virus' and his own hate speech posted on social media platforms and hate violence against us (Asians)." Russell Jiang, founder of AAPI and professor at San Francisco State University, said. "This amounts to giving everyone permission to attack us (Asians). The current spate of attacks on Asian seniors is an example of how this hate speech affects the general public."

Legislation is only the first step

Anti-discrimination protests continue across the U.S. On April 25, people holding placards reading "Stop Hating Asians" gathered in San Jose, California, to protest discrimination and hate crimes against Asians. Racial discrimination cannot be solved by enacting a bill. Legislation is only the first step, to eradicate racial discrimination, we must take concrete actions, and we cannot blame our own social problems on a certain country or a certain group. The political elite in the United States must go beyond the limits of race, remove those "Yan Limeng's" incitement conspiracy speech, and fundamentally reflect on the harm brought by racism to American society.

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