A new website is tracking reports of harassment and discrimination against Asian Americans during the coronavirus crisis. Its founder says 'maybe three times a day' they get reports of people being physically assaulted, hit or pushed.
Jeung spoke with NPR's Steve Inskeep about this spike in reports. Here is some of what he had to say:We recognized early on that people were experiencing a lot of bullying, a lot of shunning, a lot of avoiding when the coronavirus outbreak occurred. And we didn't have any hard data to document what was going on, so the first thing we did was we looked at news trends, and we counted news stories that had coronavirus and discrimination or xenophobia in it.
We found hundreds of articles about policies that people thought were xenophobic, economic boycotts of Asian businesses and then later on about interactions that Asian Americans were having where people were bullying, taunting, harassing and now attacking. We had hundreds of accounts to go to the state legislature and say,"This is happening. We need to get it documented. We need to proactively address these trends." And since the government didn't have the capacity in California, we started our own website as a reporting center, and it just was launched last week and we've been getting over 100 reports every day.Name-calling and verbal harassment — microaggressions are the most common.
Yeah, we appreciate that. I think that was due to the pressure that we exerted and the complaining. But I think it's a little too little, too late. He's already opened the door to this racism. It was already starting even before he made the China virus remarks, and he just sort of exacerbated the situation. He still uses this us vs.
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