Posted on 03/20/2021 4:34:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The myth of President Donald Trump inspiring harassment against Asian Americans just simply won’t die. Joe Biden attacked him for it during the 2020 election and his administration keeps repeating it after the horrific mass shooting in Atlanta this past week. Vice President Kamala Harris repeated this accusation in remarks on Friday and White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki made the claim explicitly on Wednesday.
“I think there’s no question that some of the damaging rhetoric that we saw during the prior administration, blaming, calling COVID ‘the Wuhan virus’ or other things led to perceptions of the Asian American community that are inaccurate, unfair, have raised threatening… has elevated threats against Asian Americans, and we’re seeing that around the country,” Psaki said.
Reporter: ‘Why does the president think attacks on Asian Americans are increasing?’
Jen Psaki: ‘The damaging rhetoric during the prior admin, calling COVID 'the Wuhan virus,' led to perceptions of the Asian American community that are inaccurate [and] unfair’ pic.twitter.com/6E1bpml3Tm
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) March 20, 2021
Tragically, it does seem that some Americans have targeted Asian Americans for harassment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Because Americans of other races often cannot tell between Japanese Americans, Korean Americans, and Chinese Americans — all of whom have distinct and proud heritages — this harassment has been rather indiscriminate. Even if only Chinese Americans had faced this harassment, it would still be absurd to blame Americans of Chinese ancestry (some of whose ancestors have lived here for 200 years or more) for a pandemic that started in Wuhan, China, in 2019.
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As usual, the Left trying to define the terms of the debate.
Lying witch.
She better watch herself as she herself is being watched and scrutinized.
Ginger Goebbels is a Social Scientist who has data to prove her assertion?
All the Fauci / China Joe Ho admin talk about the South African variant, the UK variant, the Brazilian variant means any crime against anyone from those countries is the result to the current regimes hate talk.
The Democrats are owned by the ChiComs.
“UK variant” puts people from England at risk?
I have wondered about the variants, and why we are speaking of the UK, South African, etc variants.
Since we have established with the Wuhan virus, that it is bigoted and hateful to discuss a virus in conjunction with any geographic area, why are we allowed to talk of geographic areas associated with the variants, but not the geographic area associated with the original virus?
Pon farr.
IT WASN’T RHETORIC....it was the disgusting truth and it didn’t take Trump to name it for people to know where it came from. The first clue was we watched people dropping in the streets of China.
I don’t recall attacks against blacks during Ebola (African origin) or Zika (African origin).
seems to me there were a lot of talking heads using the phrase, wuhan flu
But I don’t think the phrase had anything to do with the killing of a latin or white person. One would think they didn’t even exist the way the press is carrying on
They (the left) can’t have that, now, can they?
I've yet to hear about a white hate crime.
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