The President’s xenophobic use of playground taunts like “Kung Flu” to direct blame for COVID-19 at Asians is fueling a rash of hate crime against Asian Americans. VOX notes the rise:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/6\/23\/21300332\/trump-coronavirus-racism-asian-americans<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump\u2019s decision to lean into racist rhetoric \u2014 including terminology his own adviser, Kellyanne Conway,<\/a> has condemned in the past \u2014 comes as Asian Americans continue to report hate incidents such as verbal abuse, physical assault, and property damage during the pandemic. As the coronavirus spread around the world, tropes that treat Asians as perpetual foreigners have also resurfaced, fueling racist and hostile anti-Asian sentiment.<\/p> Stop AAPI Hate<\/a>, an organization that\u2019s been tracking self-reported hostile anti-Asian incidents since late March, says it\u2019s received more than 2,100 reports since the project began. Such incidents have included instances of employees getting shunned in the workplace, families being spat on at fast food restaurants, and children getting beaten up by their classmates. The group says it saw a surge in reports after Trump began using rhetoric like the \u201cChinese virus\u201d and noted that many \u201canti-China\u201d comments<\/a> were frequently associated with verbal and physical assaults.<\/p> \u201cA White male walked by me and said, \u2018you f\u2014king Chinese spread the Coronavirus to this country, you should all leave this country!\u2019\u201d one incident report read.<\/p> \u201cA woman sitting at a bus stop was screaming at myself and other Asians that she saw walking,\u201d read another. \u201cShe said that we were \u2018dirty Chinese,\u2019 that we were trying to take over the US.\u201d<\/p>By Li Zhou<\/a>li@vox.com<\/a> Jun 23, 2020, 6:30pm EDT<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Health authorities around the world caution that using terms that pinpoint geographic areas to describe viruses can cause violent reaction against populations having no “blame” for infectious disease. Let’s hope that cooler, wiser heads turn down the volume on this rhetoric so unthinking masses don’t use it to trigger namecalling, crime and violence against our Asian-American communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The President’s xenophobic use of playground taunts like “Kung Flu” to direct blame for COVID-19 at Asians is fueling a rash of hate crime against Asian Americans. 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