Flashback Special Memorial Day 2022: Celebrating AAPI Month - Part 2
The John Fugelsang Podcast
Crossover Media Group
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🗓️ 27 May 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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In this special flashback Memorial Day broadcast - John celebrates American Asian Pacific Islander Month. In the second of a two part series he interviews Panthea Lee on violence against Asian women. He also talks with political science expert Francis Fukuyama about his new book - Liberalism and it's Discontents. To wrap it up he takes a call from Richard in Seattle and Mitch at Kent State on Guns and the Uvalde Tx mass shooting aftermath.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the John Fugel-Sang Podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | The FBI reported one The FBI reported 161 hate crimes against Asian Americans in 2019. |
| 0:15.0 | And then came COVID, featuring a president who said China virus and Kung Flu |
| 0:20.0 | to detract from his own lies and fuckups. |
| 0:24.0 | So the next year, they went up from 161 |
| 0:28.0 | hate crimes against Asians reported to 279. |
| 0:32.0 | Anti-Asian hate crimes increased more than 73% in 2020, according to the FBI. |
| 0:38.0 | And they've compiled data by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism. |
| 0:42.0 | And it shows that anti-agent hate crime |
| 0:44.0 | then increased 339% into 2021 exponentially every year especially New York |
| 0:51.4 | San Francisco, and LA |
| 0:53.0 | surpassing the record numbers they set in 2020. |
| 0:56.8 | New York had a really drastic rise from 30 to 133 |
| 1:00.9 | anti-Asian hate crimes. |
| 1:01.9 | That's a 343% increase. San Francisco, LA had it too. And this |
| 1:05.9 | week alone, family and friends gathered in Prospect Park to honor Christina Unalee, who was |
| 1:11.0 | murdered in her home in Lower Manhattan just a couple of months ago. |
| 1:14.4 | We're still reeling from the man who is accused of fatally shoving Michelle Go into an oncoming |
| 1:20.2 | NYC subway train who was then deemed unfit for trial and it's only been a |
| 1:24.3 | year since the Atlanta Spa shooting where eight people were murdered six of whom |
| 1:29.1 | were Asian women now it's easy to blame this on COVID-related bias, |
| 1:33.0 | Trump's xenophobic rhetoric, but the fact is the dehumanization of Asian communities |
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