try to gain some ground on something that they keep losing on and asian-americans remain overwhelmingly supportive of affirmative action and conscious admissions and as it was once said, we will not be used. especially in the last two years where anti asian discrimination and bias and violence are top of mind and reality we cannot end this tool to combat discrimination. yet, i feel like we are. michael beschloss, the thing that seems to have changed has been their level of creativity. it used to be a blatant argument white people were being done wrong by these changes, right, from brown v board on, the civil rights act and voting rights act. this is doing us wrong somehow. there is morecreativity but it does feel to me like the right is sort of on the verge of at least trying to aggressively
The leader of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus is urging fellow lawmakers to avoid relying on "fear of China" during debate on pending legislation to boost U.S.
April 12, 2021
A recent study found former President Trump s first use of #chinesevirus on Twitter corresponded with a rise in anti-Asian rhetoric.
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A year into the pandemic, anti-Asian discrimination on social media is still shaping real world speech. A recent study of Twitter data found a dramatic increase in the use of the hashtag #chinesevirus, along with anti-Asian rhetoric, in the days after then-President Trump first tweeted it. Before March 16, the dominant term was COVID-19. And once he used the term Chinese virus in his tweet, the dominant term became Chinese virus, said Dr. Yulin Hswen, researcher and assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at University of California, San Francisco.