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Directors Guild, Content Players Decry Malicious Attacks Against AAPI Community
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As Hollywood continues to observe the alarming rise in anti-Asian hate crimes across the U.S., creative unions and content producers are speaking out.
Following celebrity outcry last week, the Directors Guild of America has formally issued a condemnation of attacks many of which affect elders in the AAPI community.
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“The DGA strongly condemns the rising hate crimes, racial harassment, and discrimination against Asian Americans since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. There is no place in our society for these hateful acts fueled by incendiary rhetoric, scapegoating, and unjust stereotyping targeted at people of Asian descent,” a spokesperson for the group said in a statement. ....

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