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The NYPD struggles to accurately identify, track and communicate data about anti-Asian hate crimes sowing confusion among victims and potentially hindering the department s response to the crisis, a Gothamist/WNYC investigation has found.
As COVID-19 cases rose last year, so too did reports of attacks against Asian American New Yorkers. But police did not consistently tag them as racially motivated, and the NYPD to this day provides conflicting figures about the crisis.
“F–king Chinese coronavirus,” a teenager shouted at a 59-year-old man before allegedly kicking him in the back on Madison Avenue in March 2020.
Columns By Yeji Chung Apr 5, 2021 12:21 AM
The story of the Atlanta spa shootings last month may have come as a shock to many people, but anti-Asian hate is nothing new.
With the COVID-19 pandemic, America is reaching its most intense racial hostility against Asian Americans, but anti-Asian hate is not a pandemic-related issue. The same hatred against Asian Americans was prevalent in the past, galvanized by xenophobia and “Yellow Peril,” or the idea that Asian immigrants posed a threat to western values. We cannot ignore the history of hatred in U.S. history because it informs the current state of the country.
Husted says the words were aimed at the Chinese government’s failure to come clean on what it knows on the origins of COVID-19, and were not aimed at those of Chinese or Asian descent. He added in lengthy public comments Thursday that no harm was meant, that he has many Asian American friends and that the word Wuhan is “inseparable” from the back story of the pandemic referring to a city, not an ethnicity.
Wrong response.
Husted knows that using weaponized expressions like “China virus,” “Wuhan virus” and “Kung flu” is wrong. That it is dangerous. That it is something for which he should apologize.
Ohio Newspaper Calls on Lt. Gov. Jon Husted to Apologize for Wuhan Virus Tweet
On 4/4/21 at 10:30 AM EDT
The editorial board for northern Ohio s largest newspaper,
The Plain Dealer, demanded Sunday that GOP Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted issue an official apology over a Wuhan virus remark he made that stirred anti-Asian sentiment.
The board s latest op-ed was in response to Husted s March 26 tweet in which he called the coronavirus pandemic the Wuhan virus, a remark he later claimed was only intended to tie COVID-19 to a Chinese city, not its people. The board said Husted knows that using weaponized expressions such as China virus, Wuhan virus and Kung flu is wrong, but he did it any way.
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FILE - Protestors march at a rally against Asian hate crimes past the Los Angeles Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles , Saturday, March 27, 2021. The gathered crowd demanded justice for the victims of the Atlanta spa shooting and for an end to racism, xenophobia and misogyny. The LA vs. Hate initiative encourages people to call 211 if they are victims or witness an incident of hate. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)