Apologize for corona first : Anti-Asian hate endures on social media
More than a year after the coronavirus pandemic hit, Twitter, Facebook and other social networks are still falling short of fully curbing anti-Asian rhetoric. Listen - 09:45
People hold up signs at a Stop Asian Hate rally in Chicago on March 27. Vincent Johnson/Xinhua via Getty
Shirley Wang s phone wouldn t stop buzzing as the hurtful tweets flooded in. Earlier that day, the 26-year-old Harvard student posted a thread of tweets about anti-Asian racism, prompting more than 100 replies. We must fight anti-Asian racism without fueling anti-Blackness (calls for increased policing are unacceptable), Wang tweeted on Feb. 14.
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