2022年1月12日
Brian Wong
EJ Insight
Anti-Asian hate crimes are real
Yao Pan Ma died of his injuries on December 31. The 61-year-old man was brutally assaulted in Harlem last year. He was kicked to the ground and left debilitated by Jarrod Powell.
This was a hate crime. It was also the lived experience of many a Chinese or Asian-appearing individual on the streets of New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and, indeed leading Western cities, renowned for their ostensible openness, pluralism, and compassion.
Except, of course, when it comes to Asians – specifically, Asians who resemble or look Chinese, the effective de facto scapegoats during the pandemic. I, myself, have been subject to racialised harassment many a time on the streets of Oxford – and it is for this, amongst other reasons, that I have been left perennially traumatised. Yes, to be spat at and told to f—k back to one's country isn't pleasant. It's not "character-building", either. It's just vile. It's pathetically vile. ...
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