Asian and Black Americans report heightened discrimination amid coronavirus outbreak, poll finds

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN

In the study, conducted by the Pew Research Center, 40 percent of Black and Asian-American adults said they have been treated differently or subjected to slurs or jokes as a result of the pandemic. A plurality of both groups also expressed anxiety about wearing a mask in public out of fears that they would be viewed as a threat or physically attacked.

Pew’s findings come as the White House has increasingly used anti-Asian talking points regarding the outbreak of Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. President Donald Trump has repeatedly blamed China for the global spread of the virus, referring to it as the “Chinese virus” or “kung flu” during recent rallies and press conferences.

“It’s hard to attribute causality, but what we can say is that many Asian-Americans feel they have been subject to slurs or jokes because of their race or ethnicity since the outbreak,” said Neil Ruiz, Associate Director of Global Migration and Demography at Pew, who co-authored the report. “This may be drawing on their own experiences for those people who [say] they know it's become more common for people to express racist views towards Asian-Americans."

Asian-Americans were more likely than any other racial group to report being subject to verbal abuse since the pandemic began. One-third said they had been subject to slurs compared to 21 percent of Black adults, 15 percent of Latinos and 9 percent of whites surveyed.

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Who needs solutions when you can just point at scapegoats? Also, I bet that in August as Mexico's cases increase, Trump/Fox News will once again sound the alarm and send the U.S. military to the border even though Mexico will probably still be trailing U.S. in total cases and deaths.

[BumRushDaShow]

1. "It's hard to attribute causality,"

No it's not. It's as plain as the nose on that Pew researcher's face.

When the WH started blaming all the ills of the U.S. on the "southern border"and Latin Americans, then all hell broke loose for any who are part of or descendants of those nationalities, whether they were born and raised in the U.S. over multiple generations, or were only recently recruited as seasonal workers.

The continual equivocating and denial of racist behaviors that are being described by those experiencing the attacks, by those who purportedly "study" these things, is what keeps the racism going. And that is because they want to try to find any other reason for the data they are seeing right before their eyes other than the pervasive stench of one group attempting to maintain some type of racial superiority over another group (and having the power to "enforce" it, which is the truer definition of "racism" ).

[FM123]

2. I was just reading an article about the increase in incidents, it's getting worse and worse

https://www.voanews.com/usa/race-america/us-watchdog-tracks-over-2100-anti-asian-incidents