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Peacefully Challenge Asian American Discrimination & Educate Yourself
People have a way of being predictable, and I mention this because it is something I unfortunately saw coming, before it even began. When Covid-19 first broke out and our former President distastefully dubbed it the “China Virus”, those words started crossing all media outlets. I then knew that the Asian community in the United States would sadly, be in harm.
This careless way of throwing around words to massive audiences would of course have its consequences. Most people in modern day are highly influenced by the media that they are exposed to, creating a narrow vision of the reality of the world. If you then take these narrow minds and put them in positions where they feel threatened or fearful (like Covid-19 did), these views then become more myopic.
Covid-19 made many people fearful and uncomfortable in the environments they live in, which then resulted in anger towards all the change. We sadly witnessed many examples of this anger projected on somebody to blame, in various forms of violence. Our former President was a champion of this behavior, who tried turning the entire nation’s eyes towards the Asian community blaming them for being the origin point of the threat that spread the pandemic as opposed to addressing the everyday problem of how to solve the crisis.
