"I can name 'Kung Flu,'" Trump said at a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. "I can name 19 different versions of names."
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Monday defended President Donald Trump's use of the term"Kung Flu" in referring to COVID-19 at a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
CBS News White House correspondent Weijia Jiang, who said the term was previously used against her by an unnamed White House official, brought up the language at McEnany's news briefing Monday. But Andy Kang, executive director of the civil rights nonprofit Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Chicago, told NBC News that given the political and racial environment of the U.S., Trump's words could have harmful consequences.
More than three decades ago, Vincent Chin, who was Chinese American, was fatally beat in Detroit by two white autoworkers, who mistook him for a Japanese man and blamed him for the loss of jobs in the U.S. during the Japanese auto boom of the 1980s. Chin died just days before what was supposed to have been his wedding date.
But Russell Jeung, chair and professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University, said we need not look to history to find evidence of such misdirected anger. The online hate crime reporting forum Stop AAPI Hate said it had received 1,843 incident reports from March 19 to May 13. In more than a quarter of incidents, perpetrators invoked the words"China" or"Chinese" in their acts of discrimination. In 17.
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Trump can't claim 'Kung Flu' doesn't affect Asian Americans in this climate, experts sayGiven the political and racial environment of the U.S., President Trump's words could have harmful consequences, Andy Kang, executive director of civil rights nonprofit Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Chicago, tells NBC News. - NBCAsianAmerica
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