Anti Asian Racism

By Louise Liu Since the start of the pandemic, there has been an increase in anti-Asian hate — and an increasingly prevalent myth that Black people are behind the attacks. The repeated media coverage of several videos showing Black individuals attacking Asian Americans has further contributed to the false narrative. …

Because they have this sneaky habit of gravitating toward me — I‘m finally on vacation. It’s been a long and at times challenging year. When I turned on my out-of-office last week, I was ecstatic. I planned to rest over the Christmas break. A friend of a good friend who I had met at a birthday party in November, reached out…

Short answer? Yes, of course. — For the last couple of days, I’ve been seeing some comments on social media about Swedes being incredibly racist people. I think it all started with this tweet thread by an Asian American woman living in Stockholm. She details the harassment and abuse she’s tolerated since she moved to…

ELLEN PAO, the Silicon Valley executive, was born in 1970 and raised in Maplewood, New Jersey, the middle of three daughters of ambitious, hard-working, patriotic Taiwanese-American immigrant parents. Her father was a math professor at New York University, her mother a computer science engineer at the University of Pennsylvania. When…

Having the right to be a horrible person doesn’t mean you have to confirm that you are, indeed, a horrible person — Although its origin is unclear — having been attributed to both Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain — most of us have probably heard it said: It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt. One doesn’t have to say anything, after…

If you can avoid the pain of others by showing that you don’t belong to these “others,” will you do it? I asked myself this question when I saw the story of Polish anthropologist Jan Czekanowski. He was famous for convincing Nazi authorities that Crimean Karaites — a Turkic-speaking minority…

By Nusrath Naurin On May 31, the world-famous K-Pop group Bangtan Sonyeondan (BTS) visited the White House to meet with President Biden to mark the end of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. …

When we start doing anything — anything that matters to us, we all have a moment where we stand in front of a mirror, and look into the eyes of our future selves. …

May 20, 2022, marks the one-year anniversary of the historic passage of the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which was signed into law by President Biden. This bill is a critical step to addressing the current rise in anti-Asian hate while holding law enforcement accountable for tracking and reporting hate crimes…