That incident, and others like it, has returned to the fore this week after a white 21-year-old allegedly went on a shooting spree in Georgia that left six women of Asian descent and two others dead in the latest flashpoint of violence targeting Asian people in America.
lørdag 10. april 2021
THE WAVE OF ANTI-ASIAN HATE COULD LAST BEYOND THE PANDEMIC
A year ago this week, during a daily pandemic press conference, a Washington Post photographer captured a close shot of the notes Donald Trump was reading from in which the phrase “Chinese virus” was scribbled in place of “coronavirus.” He’d spent weeks at that point downplaying the mounting public health crisis, and now that it was spinning out of control in the United States, he was looking for a scapegoat. Skirting responsibility for his own disastrous response to the pandemic, Trump and his allies would spend months decrying the “China virus” or the “Kung flu,” implicating everyday Chinese citizens, immigrants, and Asian-Americans in the process—all while disingenuously insisting they were doing no such thing. “It’s not racist at all,” Trump said in that March 2020 press conference. “It comes from China.”
That incident, and others like it, has returned to the fore this week after a white 21-year-old allegedly went on a shooting spree in Georgia that left six women of Asian descent and two others dead in the latest flashpoint of violence targeting Asian people in America.
That incident, and others like it, has returned to the fore this week after a white 21-year-old allegedly went on a shooting spree in Georgia that left six women of Asian descent and two others dead in the latest flashpoint of violence targeting Asian people in America.
