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Covid-19 Fueling Anti-Asian Racism and Worldwide | HRW |

'China virus' redux: For Trump and Republicans, it's open season on Asian Americans like me | USA Today |

"China virus."

Those words were once again uttered by the twice-impeached, former president of the United States last weekend in Orlando and, as has become the status quo, they were met with rambunctious applause from the Republican Party faithful. 

For the better part of a year, the highest power in the land, the person with the largest microphone in the land, repeatedly used the phrases "China Virus" and "Kung-Flu" to describe COVID-19. 



'Sapere aude'
by Oui (Oui) on Tue Mar 9th, 2021 at 09:30:12 AM EST
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I don't know why people are continually surprised a country with a five hundred year history of racism, bigotry, and violence directed to The Other expresses violence against The Other.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
by ATinNM on Fri Mar 12th, 2021 at 04:26:58 PM EST
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