Michelle Steel is running for reelection in California's 48th Congressional District in Orange County. Protesters are calling for her to resign after a recent campaign ad.
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Jenna Dupuy said she was shocked when it happened, even amid the outpouring of news about such attacks: a man spewing hateful slurs against Asians and assaulting her, fracturing her shoulder and ankle and dealing her a concussion.
Dupuy, who uses both “she” and “they” pronouns, said that before the attack, the man had harassed them for hours with sexual comments about being Asian and no one had interrupted his threats and abuse until he physically hurt them.
“This happened because I am an Asian woman,” the 18-year-old Puerto Rican and Korean American told a crowd at Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles. The attack at a skate park was rooted in “the xenophobia and racism that comes from the decades of ‘yellow peril’ stereotypes but also because of the fetishization” of Asian women.