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Congress Passes Bill To Counter The Rise In Anti-Asian Hate Crimes
NPR ^ | 5/18/2021 | By Barbara Sprunt

Posted on 05/18/2021 4:11:00 PM PDT by NohSpinZone

The House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday to address the increase in hate crimes and violence against Asian Americans during the coronavirus pandemic, clearing the legislation for President Biden to sign.

The COVID–19 Hate Crimes Act passed by a 364-62 vote; all 62 votes against the bill were from Republicans. The Senate approved the legislation last month.

A rise in COVID-19 cases, the first instances of which were reported in China, has been linked to an increase in attacks on Asian Americans. Democrats have pointed to former President Donald Trump's frequent use of racist phrases such as "kung flu" to describe the coronavirus as a link to the increase in anti-Asian sentiment.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: asian; covid; hatebill; violence
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Pure kabuki and I speak as an Asian. All this hand-waving to create new laws when existing "hate crime" laws would more than suffice. Also, if these scoundrels are not willing to address the elephant in the room - that the vast majority of the attacks on Asians were by blacks, then this is pointless. It's just another opportunity to talk crap about President Trump's messaging around COVID.

I'm beyond disgusted that any Republican voted for this canard.

1 posted on 05/18/2021 4:11:00 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
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To: NohSpinZone

You’d better watch out for those Black Supremacists.


2 posted on 05/18/2021 4:13:11 PM PDT by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of three generations.)
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To: NohSpinZone

To those with brains, a crime is a crime.
To those still unsuccessful in their search for brains, they invented hate crimes.
There is only one true hate...and that is for leftists/Democrats/the media. (partial, reluctant /s)


3 posted on 05/18/2021 4:14:03 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: NohSpinZone

Point with pride. View with alarm. And in any case, LEGISLATE! They wonder why they are at 26 percent approval.


4 posted on 05/18/2021 4:15:54 PM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: NohSpinZone

Knockout game will continue and white people will still be targeted and Congress does not care.


5 posted on 05/18/2021 4:16:10 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. L)
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To: NohSpinZone

Softening us up for when the chinese troop transports dock in Los Angeles and Seattle.


6 posted on 05/18/2021 4:16:56 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: NohSpinZone

That’s racist.


7 posted on 05/18/2021 4:17:07 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (I voted for prosperity, and I got poverty.)
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To: NohSpinZone
"Kung Flu" isn't racist. It is a clever play on words. What a humorless world the Dems are planning!

8 posted on 05/18/2021 4:18:59 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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Too many Asians are brainwashed to believing that poking fun at COVID’s origin in China is the reason why their grandmothers and grandfathers are getting their heads bashed in with cinderblocks. Morons.


9 posted on 05/18/2021 4:20:18 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I call it the Wuhanic Plague. As for the hate crimes, it ain’t Whitey doing it.


10 posted on 05/18/2021 4:21:26 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (I voted for prosperity, and I got poverty.)
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To: Don Corleone

And in any case, LEGISLATE!

Yep waiting for the white, hetero, christian, goes to work every day anti hate legislation.


11 posted on 05/18/2021 4:21:54 PM PDT by Jolla
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Ah yes, the race-baiting Congressional scumbags working hard to # up the Country.


12 posted on 05/18/2021 4:22:21 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: NohSpinZone

Blacks disproportionately impacted!


13 posted on 05/18/2021 4:24:40 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (GMO opponents who took the covid jab are now GMOs themselves.)
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I’ll say it again, Hate is a Motive, it isn’t a Crime.

Hate Crime Legislation is Thought Crime Legislation and is 100% Unconstitutional, period.

Assault and Battery is already against the Law, just like Murder.

Did anyone stand up in Congress and explain the FACT that most of these supposed Hate Crimes against Asians are being committed by Blacks? Didn’t think so.


14 posted on 05/18/2021 4:26:43 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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So black thugs are going to be prosecuted for hate crimes? We were told that wasn’t possible since it’s impossible for them to be racist.


15 posted on 05/18/2021 4:26:58 PM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking. )
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Kung Flu = China Flu = Wuhan Flu = The Chinese Restaurant Scene in the Movie “A Christmas Story”.

Remember when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Me neither.


16 posted on 05/18/2021 4:30:26 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: jughandle

Exactly. This will have no teeth. It’s just window dressing for the dims.


17 posted on 05/18/2021 4:31:50 PM PDT by xp38
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To: NohSpinZone

How utterly convenient and useful for China when one their many spies and IP thieves gets in trouble.
<Xi Jinping’s bought and paid for Democrats and the media will shriek anti-Asian racism and the Republicans will fold like a dish cloth.


18 posted on 05/18/2021 4:31:58 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: NohSpinZone

You nailed it.


19 posted on 05/18/2021 4:39:23 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix circa 1984.)
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This is about voting blocks, nothing more.. They already have the vote guaranteed of the attackers and now move to get the vote of the victims ....so much for one people or melting pot theology..the votes are in creating an American that is a racial stew


20 posted on 05/18/2021 4:44:15 PM PDT by Sonshinegirl
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