China News Service: When will the trend of "move to the table" discriminate against Asians?

　　BEIJING, November 27 electric

　　Author: Chen wanted

　　The U.S. election has finally ushered in results, but it does not mean that the U.S. has found solutions to various problems.

Such as racial discrimination.

The current epidemic in the United States is still spreading, and the emotional venting of Asians on social media is still visible from time to time. Asians are still suffering from either naked or hidden prejudice and discrimination, and they are deep in the bottom of powerlessness and helplessness...

　　Chinese columnist Su-Jit Lin, a Chinese born in the United States, recently published an article in the "Huffington Post" and disclosed that "a great friend once told me to get out of the United States due to the new crown epidemic."

Her writing is full of sadness of "I will never go back to the past" and the longing for "When will this state end?" The epidemic has been going on for a long time, but every time I log on to social media, I have to face a series of triggers. Anxious speech, which brings a sudden sense of powerlessness and helplessness.

When those people are making malicious jokes, have they forgotten that there is a Chinese friend on their list?

　　All kinds of evidence show that in the year of the epidemic, Asian Americans felt less secure than before. American society was torn apart far more than in the past, and even the achievements of anti-Asian discrimination in the United States over the years have fallen sharply.

　　Those cases of discrimination are vivid: a family of four Asians were stabbed while buying food, Michelin-starred Chinese restaurants were sprayed with racial discrimination graffiti, Asian women were splashed with acid by an unidentified man at their door, and Asian men took the ride. The subway was attacked, Asian children were ridiculed and humiliated as a "virus" in school, students from Asian countries were reprimanded for wearing masks when they went out, and Asian medical nurses faced racial discrimination while fighting the new crown virus... because of their descent and appearance. All kinds of attacks are the most indelible pain of the Asian community in 2020.

Having been trapped in racial discrimination anxiety for a long time, Asian Americans have worried about their mental health.

　　At the end of September, NBC News introduced a study published in the journal Health Education and Behavior, which lamented that "more than ten years of anti-discrimination against Asians were destroyed by the term'Chinese virus'".

The researchers reviewed the evolution: the prejudice against Asians has been steadily declining in the past ten years, but after the "Chinese virus" and other discriminatory new coronavirus speeches rose sharply in March this year, this trend took place within a few days. It is reversed; these remarks make people subconsciously believe that Asian Americans are "forever foreigners" and are more likely to express hostility to Asian Americans and participate in acts of violence and discrimination.

　　Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, Trump’s ruling team, Republican anti-China lawmakers, and conservative media have repeatedly promoted the “Chinese virus” and “Kung Fu virus” on social media and public occasions.

Although Trump has restrained and even appeased Asians due to the pressure of public opinion and election needs, in fact, until the first US presidential election debate at the end of September, Trump still declared that the new crown crisis was "China's fault." Known as the "Chinese Plague", the study found that there has been a surge in the number of biased posts targeting Asians on Twitter.

　　Another social platform "discrimination peak" promoted by Trump occurred after Trump was infected with the new crown in early October.

According to a report released by the civil rights organization Anti-Defamation League, anti-Asian remarks and conspiracy theories on Twitter have increased by 85% in just 12 hours after the news of Trump’s infection. Many people have begun to point their fingers at them. China accused China of deliberately infecting Trump, and anti-Asian sentiment on the platform remained high in the following days.

　　The influence of politicians' discriminatory remarks even penetrated into the US military.

In October, a video of a U.S. military recruit threatening to shoot and kill a Chinese national went viral on social media.

Active military personnel dressed in military uniforms publicly promoted racial discrimination. Such a picture makes Chinese in the United States shudder.

Those "big men" who are inciting hatred to win popularity while denying that such remarks are dangerous, do you realize the risk of losing control of this political game when you see this kind of picture?

　　In order to correct this disturbing trend of discrimination against Asians, mainstream American society has been taking action.

Nearly 200 American foreign policy scholars and former diplomats once published a joint letter in USA Today, stating that recent hate crimes and violent attacks against Asians should be a wake-up call for the United States.

More than a hundred well-known writers from the American PEN and Asian Writers Workshop have issued a joint statement, hoping to reverse the wave of hatred against Asians as soon as possible, stating that attacks on Asians "sometimes are incited by the government, they will use racism and stereotypes." The words of impression try to use this to divert people’s attention from their own mistakes."

Mainstream media such as The New York Times published a large number of articles condemning Asian discrimination.

　　On September 17, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the resolution "Condemn the anti-Asian due to the new crown virus". Although the resolution is not binding, House Democrats said they hope the resolution will show support for the Asian community and send a message, namely Related biases cannot be tolerated.

This news made the Asian community feel solidarity from the outside. However, the Chinese lawmakers who promoted the resolution received a large number of insulting phone messages and even suffered personal attacks.

This shows that the prejudice against Asians in American society is "hard to return", and it is quite difficult to make obvious changes in a short time.

　　Sociologist analysis pointed out that racism against Asian Americans has existed for many centuries, and the violence related to the epidemic is only a recent evolution.

People are familiar with the "Chinese Exclusion Act" of 1882, the Chinese laborers in the San Francisco plague more than 100 years ago... Former Chinese American officials also believe that discrimination against Chinese and Asian Americans has always existed in American society, but sometimes "Under the table", sometimes "moved to the table" for various reasons.

　　"These disgusting acts of discrimination must stop. Behind such acts are ugly impulses and dangerous ignorance." The protagonist who once issued a statement condemning the acts of discrimination against Asians is Biden, who is now sitting on the "Iron Throne". Can he put the trend of discriminating against Asians naked in American society "to the table", put it back under the table and even make radical improvements?

Many are forced to "prove that they are American Asians" looking forward to answers.

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