Incidents from New York to California indicate the backlash being faced by Asian Americans due to the coronavirus is not slowing.
The New York Posts reports a teenager kicked an Asian man in the back and told him to go back to his country while screaming “f*cking Chinese coronavirus.”
Elsewhere in New York, law enforcement sources told the Post someone slugged an Asian woman while saying “Where is your corona mask, you Asian b—h.”
Both cases are being investigated as possible hate crimes.
In Southern California, an Asian American woman eating at The Bungalow in Santa Monica says a bartender threw hand sanitizer toward her before having security escort her out.
“I am mortified by the type of behavior and am disgusted by the prejudice I had to experience,” she wrote on Yelp.
Just yesterday, a statement released by more than 250 Asian American and Pacific Islander groups called for “visible and strong leadership to address the growing hostile rhetoric against the Asian American community.”
Russell Jeung, the chair of the Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State University, reports he has seen an upsurge of health officials taking a stand against anti-Asian discrimination. He said nearly 1 out of four news reports between February 23 and March 7 included official statements against discrimination.
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