'We are doing our part in a health emergency and caring for others,' said Cynthia Choi, co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action. 'Now we have this added burden of feeling scapegoated.'
accusing Trump of stoking xenophobic panic, and also slammed his response to the crisis.
Chiu said elected officials across the country need to step up and denounce rhetoric that demonizes Asian-Americans. In an open letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom this week,And Newsom did just that. At the end of a Thursday night conference call announcing a statewide stay-at-home order due to COVID-19, he condemned the rising anti-Asian rhetoric, xenophobia and hate crimes, comparing it to the Yellow Peril and Chinese Exclusion Act periods.
Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at the California State University, San Bernardino, said that he's seen a recent spike in anti-Asian hate crimes in New York City, but not in Seattle, an original hotspot in the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S."Possibly because the image [of coronavirus] in Seattle is with the elderly, not Asians," he explained. The first outbreak in the Seattle area happened at a nursing home in Kirkland, Washington.
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