The Rise of Anti-Asian Hate
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Julio is joined by Jason Wu, public defender at the Legal Aid Society's Harlem Community Law Office, and Tiffany Diane Tso, freelance writer, editor, and co-founder of the Asian American Feminist Collective. They reflect on the rise in hate crimes targeting different Asian American communities, and how to build community safety beyond policing. They also get into the opportunity for multiracial solidarity in light of the increasing white supremacist violence in this country.
ITT Staff Picks:
“A year after the shootings, many additional attacks on Asian Americans have continued across the country, something activists view as part of the long tradition of violence and discrimination against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders woven through the nation’s history,” by Frances Kai-Hwa Wang for PBS Newshour in April 2022.
In this analysis of data from AAPI Data and Momentive, professors Janelle Wong and Sara Sadhwani found that “all racial groups experienced a hate crime over the first months of 2022 at very similar rates to one another.”
“In interviews with more than a dozen community members — from shopkeepers to long term residents and elected officials — one particular sentiment coursed through the interviews: The systems that were supposed to protect people — from homeless people to the elderly and women — have failed Chinatown,” writes Lam Thuy Vo in this piece for Documented.
Photo credit: AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura
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| 0:24.3 | Hey, in the thick family, it's Julio and we're going to share an episode that we recorded |
| 0:38.3 | a few weeks ago about the rise in hate violence toward Asian Americans and communities of color |
| 0:44.8 | more broadly. |
| 0:46.2 | But first, we do want to acknowledge the devastating news of the shooting in Buffalo, New York this |
| 0:52.1 | past weekend. |
| 0:53.1 | So on Saturday, an 18 year old white man opened fire at a supermarket in Buffalo in a predominantly |
| 1:01.9 | black neighborhood killing 10 people, all of them black, the shooter posted a white supremacist |
| 1:09.6 | manifesto online filled with anti-black racism are hard to with the families and loved ones |
| 1:16.5 | of everyone affected by this horrific tragedy. |
| 1:20.6 | Of course, we're going to talk more about this on our Friday sound off show as well as |
| 1:26.7 | the increased gun violence we've been seeing. |
| 1:30.5 | But we wanted to take a moment to honor those who were lost and send love to those affected. |
| 1:35.9 | I do feel like especially whenever it comes to Asian women in like the American imagination, |
| 1:47.7 | it's always been to find through white supremacy. |
| 1:50.2 | From Futuro Media and PRX, it's in the thick, a podcast about politics, race and culture. |
| 1:57.8 | I'm Julio Ricalo Varela and I'm so little hosting today while the fabulous Mariano Hosa |
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