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· Ryan General
An Instagram user posted screenshots of an exchange with an individual who verbally abused her with racial slurs and insults. In her post, user @vanillako, whose name is Vanessa, lamented the rising “racist and xenophobic motivated attacks” against Asian Americans as a result of…
· Ryan General
Asian Americans in New York can now report discrimination directly through a hotline established by its state attorney general on Monday. New York State Attorney General Letitia James has launched the hotline for New Yorkers as hate crimes toward people of Asian descent continue…
· Bryan Ke
A supermarket clerk in Silicon Valley was fired after her xenophobic remark against an Asian American woman amid the COVID-19 outbreak. The harassment happened at the Oakmont Produce Market in Cupertino, California, according to AsAm News.
· Ryan General
An Asian woman was recently robbed and verbally attacked with racist insults inside a Brooklyn, New York train station. In what police sources described as a “coronavirus-inspired attack,” 60-year-old Oswald Jones approached and yelled at the victim at about 11 p.m. on Thursday…
· Carl Samson
A student in New York City has accused a fellow commuter of discriminating against him and his girlfriend for wearing face masks on the train last week. In a Facebook post on Friday, Noel Chan Zin shared clips of the male commuter, who allegedly blamed the couple for spreading…
· Carl Samson
A Twitter user has exposed a pair of British girls who allegedly yelled racist slurs at them and their partner because they were Asian. In a tweet posted on March 16, user @Keanu00823443, who also identifies as Darren Kane, claimed that the girls approached them while on a…
· Bryan Ke
Asian-owned stores in New York City are reportedly fully stocked but lack customers because of the xenophobia surrounding the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Asian grocery stores remain abundant with items while other stores are running out of supplies, according to NY1.
· Bryan Ke
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter, Bernice A. King, is showing her support against the rising violence on Asian Americans over the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. In her Twitter post on March 20, the 56-year-old American minister, the youngest child of the iconic…
· Ryan General
Actress Karrueche Tran has recently condemned the continued racism against Asians often linked to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a recent post on Instagram, Tran lamented how the growing number of attacks against people of Asian descent has struck fear in members of the Asian…
· Maina Chen
Update: This article has been updated to change the headline to ‘Chinese Virus’ is Racist and Asians Being Assaulted Because of It. Since Wednesday, March 18, U.S. President Donald Trump has tripled down on the phrase “Chinese Virus,” as the “accurate” term for the COVID-19…
· Ryan General
Asian American groups are creating websites to document and condemn incidents of racism and attacks against people of Asian descent in the U.S. The collective effort is a response to the growing number of hate crimes linked to the COVID-19 outbreak, AsAm News reports.
· Carl Samson
Lee Ann Kim, founder of California-based Pacific Arts Movement (Pac-Arts), has added her voice to the chorus against xenophobia toward Asian Americans in the growing COVID-19 outbreak. Pac-Arts, formerly the San Diego Asian Film Foundation, is one of the largest media arts…
· Bryan Ke
An Asian man bravely stood his ground as two shoppers at Target yelled at him to walk away for coughing amid the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) panic. The incident happened at a Target in the Serramonte neighborhood of Daly City, California where the Asian man was verbally…
· Ryan General
A journalist recently took to Twitter to share a recent encounter with a racist man near her home. Jiayang Fan, a staff writer at The New Yorker, detailed in a short Twitter thread how she was verbally abused with racial slurs right in front of her own home.
· Bryan Ke
The man behind the “baby back rat” video has been identified and it turns out that he has a history of creating racist content. Funny Buzzin (@funnybuzzinhbtl), who identifies himself as a “comedian,” is an Instagram user who creates questionably “funny” and often controversial…
· Carl Samson
Two employeess at British supermarket Tesco have been accused of racism after allegedly refusing to sell groceries to an Asian man and his family. In a Twitter post this week, user @taha_aftab, who is based in London, claimed that the staff refused “the whole shopping sale to us…
· Carl Samson
A woman has expressed gratitude to a fellow commuter for defending her against a man who accused her of bringing “corona to America” because she’s “Chinese.” The encounter, which was partially caught on video, took place while Emily Chen was boarding the New York City subway…
· Ernestine Siu
A video emerged on March 17 showing a group of supermarket workers kicking out an Asian grocery shopper wearing a face mask and her friends. The woman, who asked not to be named, was grocery shopping with two of her friends at the Metro supermarket on Danforth Avenue in Toronto,…
· Bryan Ke
American comedian and avid Trump supporter Terrence K. Williams went on a racist rant against Asian people on Twitter amid the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The comedian’s rant began on March 16 when he posted a three and half minute video of him talking about how…
· Bryan Ke
An Asian woman in Manhattan became a recent victim of hate crime after being assaulted by a stranger and blamed for spreading the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The 34-year-old woman, whose name was not revealed, was reportedly walking north on Madison Avenue near East 25th…
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