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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics and now the Joe Biden presidency.

We will be looking at how a 78-year-old president will change America, and we'll be asking if normalcy,

which is what he promised to bring, has returned to American politics. The answer, of course,

is no. I'm joined today by Andy No, who is the author of Unmast Inside Antifar's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy. And we're going to be

talking about the surge of violence against Asian Americans. Now, Andy, thank you very much for

joining us. It's good to have you on again. Thank you for having me on to talk about this important

topic. Andy, there's lots of reasons to talk about this important topic.

Andy, there's lots of reasons to talk about the subject, but the immediate peg for this discussion, if you like, is the slaughter of eight women in Atlanta.

Six of them were Asian, and there was an immediate rush by the media to pin this to the growing phenomenon of violence against Asian Americans.

Now, it seems in this instance, the media was too quick, as often is the case, to put it down to racism since the latest we've discovered is that this man seems to have been a sort of sex-mad sociopath,

I think. That seems to be a fair description. But we don't quite know all the details of the case. But it is kind of typical, isn't it, that the media put it down to racism

before they knew any cause? Yeah, I think so for people who are familiar with my work, they probably

know of me for my writings and reportings on Antifa. And I don't normally

talk about my Asian American identity. It very rarely has intersected with the narrow beats that

I'm on. But I do think it's important for me to be speaking about my views on the very cynical

exploitation of the mass shootings that happened in Atlanta.

So Asian Americans has been kind of a relatively ignored demographic for both political left

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