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Just three days after the Atlanta spa shootings, an Asian woman in Portland, Oregon, received a note filled with anti-Asian hate, KGW8 reports.
On March 19, 2021, second-generation Vietnamese American Hoa Nguyen, who is running for a seat on the David Douglas School Board, received a knock at her front door at her home. When she went to answer, she found a handwritten note with the phrase, “Kung Flu” at her doorstep.
“My first reaction was to let it go,” Nguyen told KGW8 news, “It’s what I’ve been conditioned to do in terms of when we encounter these bias incidents. My first thought is it’s a prank. It’s nothing. It’s just a note.”
There have been over 3,800 incidents of anti-Asian hate reported this year according to the Stop AAPI Hate National Report. Verbal harassment and shunning made up the largest amount of total incidents reported at 68.1% and 20.5% respectively.
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The incident was reported to the Portland Police Bureau, Oregon Department of Justice and Portland United Against Hate.
“We don’t have to suffer in silence with hate crime,” Nguyen told Koin6. “Hate crime isn’t just about physical safety and I think the reason I wanted to let it go was because I wasn’t initially physically harmed. But over time it does affect you mentally.”
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