“The use of racist terms, the focus on a society or culture as the ‘cause’ for the COVID-19 pandemic, and policies that demonize immigrants all contribute to an atmosphere where racism and xenophobia is legitimized.” via WMC's the_fbomb
to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, Asian Americans Advancing Justice President John Yang noted that “the Asian American community has long struggled for visibility and equity, and now [our] communities face additional physical and mental health harms arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Yang also said that the health and economic fears caused by COVID-19 have led people to look for someone to blame. “The use of racist terms, the focus on a society or culture as the ‘cause’ for the COVID-19 pandemic, and policies that demonize immigrants all contribute to an atmosphere where racism and xenophobia is legitimized,” Yang said. “It is also part of a broader structural racism that this country is continuing to confront.”
An example of how this blame has impacted the AAPI community in other ways can be seen through Asian-owned businesses nationwide. Anoted that “misguided fears of the virus effectively shuttered businesses in many Asian American cultural districts” a full month before lockdown began, despite few confirmed COVID-19 cases in those areas. At the same time, approximately 2 million Asian Americans are putting themselves at risk as front-line and essential workers.
In terms of how the data on anti-Asian attacks is collected, Yang said there is no uniform database, and that data is mostly self-reported on a website called
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