Ep. 256 | Vincent Chin
The China History Podcast
Laszlo Montgomery
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back again. |
| 0:02.0 | Lausl of Montgomery here on a Labor Day weekend here in the beautiful country, |
| 0:06.0 | and for the first time since March 22nd, talking about something else besides a history of Xinjiang. I hope you all like that series, an instant classic, |
| 0:15.9 | I'm told, in the history podcasting space, Xinjiang category. You know, I wanted to cover today's topic for a few reasons. |
| 0:24.0 | First of all, with some people throughout American society being caught on video, |
| 0:29.0 | playing fast and loose with the COVID-19 related trash talking about Asian American. and |
| 0:35.0 | last and loose with the COVID-19 related trash talking about Asian Americans and some of the physical and verbal assaults against Asians |
| 0:39.0 | doesn't matter American or otherwise that we see on YouTube, |
| 0:43.7 | Tik-Tock, and other social media, |
| 0:45.9 | scrolling through our phones. |
| 0:48.5 | Well, that was one reason why I felt that this |
| 0:51.0 | was a timely topic, the story of what happened to Vincent Chin. |
| 0:56.0 | But what really lit a fire under this one was that, |
| 0:59.0 | while President Trump was firing away |
| 1:01.0 | with these loaded substitute words for the coronavirus, |
| 1:05.0 | Vincent Chin's name kept popping up here and there. |
| 1:08.0 | And in a few discussions with some Chinese and Chinese American friends and colleagues, including all five who work for me. |
| 1:16.3 | Well, basically, they had no idea who he was. |
| 1:20.6 | One of my friends that I spoke to was a member of one of the more well-known Chinese-American organizations. |
| 1:27.0 | And I guess also a third reason, according to the statistics provided to me by my long time and wonderful IAB compliant podcast host, Libson. |
| 1:36.0 | Well, more than half you are listening to this CHP episode, somewhere outside of the USA. |
| 1:43.0 | Perhaps your own country has its own Vincent Chin's story. |
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