According to CCTV news client news, on April 22, local time, the US Senate passed a bill to solve hate crimes against Asians - the covid-19 hate crimes act by an overwhelming vote of 94 to 1.
On the 22nd local time, the US Senate voted to pass the anti-Asian hate crime bill. Pictured according to The Associated Press
The bill's passage will help the U.S. Department of Justice expedite its review of COVID-19-related hate crimes that have been filed, and help establish a better online reporting system and a help-up system. The bill will also allow the Ministry of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Resources Services to introduce guidance programmes to regulate COVID-19-related language and reduce racial discrimination.
Anti-Asian hate crimes in the United States are surging
During the COVID-19 pandemic, in a series of incidents of apparent racial hostility, Asians have been pushed, beaten, kicked, spit on, verbally abused, and even houses and shops vandalized. Violence knows no borders, no age or income class.
For example, in January 2021, an 84-year-old Thai man was unknowingly pushed down in the United States and died of his injuries; also in January, a horrific scene occurred on Chinatown in Oakland, California: a 91-year-old Asian-American man was maliciously pushed from behind and fell to the ground; on March 14, an Asian-run restaurant in Texas was vandalized, and the glass walls of the restaurant were painted with racial discrimination and aggressive language.
Graffiti full of negative words and aggressive language can also be seen on the streets of the United States
On March 16, a major shooting occurred in Atlanta, Georgia, where white man Robert Aaron Lang shot eight people, including six Asian women, in succession at two spas and a massage parlor; on March 29, an Asian couple in their 70s in Oakland, California, was robbed by a gang of four people on their porch; on March 29, a 65-year-old Asian woman was suddenly kicked to the ground by an oncoming man while walking to a church near Times Square in New York. The man kicked her in the head three times and stomped on her face while shouting "You don't belong here!" ”
In June 2020, the front of a Chinese restaurant in New Jersey was spray-painted, including the words "coronavirus" and "home."
The New York Times found more than 110 clearly documented incidents of racial hatred across the United States since last March. According to statistics, during the COVID-19 epidemic, discrimination and violent crimes against Asians in the United States have surged. A study of 16 major U.S. cities at California State University, San Bernardino found that hate crimes against Asians increased by 149 percent in 2020. Nearly half of these cases mentioned the coronavirus – "you are the virus", "you are infected", "go back to China", "you brought the virus here"...
According to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, about 45 percent of the 352 Asians said they had experienced threats or physical assaults, 81 percent believed that violence against Asian communities had increased, and 20 percent said the use of words such as "kung fu flu" or "Chinese flu" fueled hatred and violence against Asians.
Hatred and violence against Asians stem from unscrupulous politicians' blame and blame
Behind the wave of hatred and violent attacks against Asians, especially Chinese, although there are complex political, economic, social, and historical reasons, it is mainly inseparable from a small number of unscrupulous politicians in the United States.
In the United States under Trump, populism, unilateralism, and bullying have spread wildly. Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, Trump and a small number of unscrupulous politicians have thrown out absurd arguments against China such as the so-called "Theory of the Origin of the Chinese Virus", "China Concealment Theory" and "China Responsibility Theory" against China, in an attempt to politicize and stigmatize the new crown pneumonia epidemic, and Asians have once again been used as pawns for Western politicians to pass on contradictions, becoming the direct victims and "scapegoats" of US politicians who govern the country without methods and do not fight the epidemic effectively. As Rama Christiannan, the founder of the U.S. Demographics and Policy Research Institute, believes that the increase in cases against Asians is partly attributed to former President Trump's erroneous remarks about the "origin of the new crown virus in China", which fuels hatred, and Trump often uses social media, rallies and other ways to publish inflammatory remarks, forming a certain narrative structure, which has the effect of fueling the waves. Researchers call it the "Trump effect."
The "Falungong" cult is undoubtedly behind the surge in anti-Asian hate crimes
The reason why the Trump administration has been able to throw the pot and blame and blame others is inseparable from the "Falungong" cult media behind the scenes to fan the flames and stir up trouble. During the 2016 US election, "Falungong" spent a huge amount of money to support Trump's presidential campaign, and "Falungong" was a supporter of Trump during the Trump administration. In this regard, Trump repaid the favor, resulting in the obscure "Falungong" media quickly becoming one of Trump's favorite media, and can magnificently enter and exit the White House press and speech venues that only a few mainstream media can enter, and the stigma and rumors of the "Falungong" cult media on the new crown virus undoubtedly play a rhythmic and catalyst role for Trump's ruling team.
As early as January 6, 2020, the "Falungong" cult media began to maliciously stigmatize China in an attempt to pin the hat of the source of the virus on China's head.
The naming of "viruses" has long had the guiding principles of international organizations, while the "Falungong" cult has completely disregarded the naming rules of international organizations; the "Chinese virus" and "Wuhan virus" have gone all the way, paranoidly stigmatizing China, making people hate China, criminalize China, slander China, use despicable methods and slanderous means to provoke racial discrimination and anti-China sentiments, and place their own ulterior motives above the public interest and scientific common sense. The "Falungong" media rushed to the forefront of the smear of the virus and acted as the vanguard of anti-China public opinion in the West.
On January 24 and 26, 2020, the Washington Times, a South Korean cult "Unification Religion" media, concocted rumors that "the virus is a biological and chemical weapon leaked by the Wuhan laboratory." U.S. Republican anti-China Senator Tom Cotton also claimed that the virus was a biological and chemical weapon leaked by the Wuhan laboratory, and he demanded that the U.S. government immediately block China and require all Americans to flee China. At this time, the "Falungong" media "Epoch Times" had obtained the most precious treasure, smelled the taste of smearing Chinese rumors, and spread articles everywhere, becoming a powerful promoter behind the scenes of such rumors. Some Americans who do not know the truth point to this human disaster originating from nature to Chinese and asians with similar appearances.
In April 2020, buzzfeed, a news aggregation site in the United States, published a report detailing where the conspiracy theory that "the new coronavirus came from the Wuhan Virus Institute" circulating on the Us Internet came from. The buzzfeed news network quoted relevant experts as pointing out that the claim that "the new coronavirus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology" began to appear on the US network around the beginning of April, and that the conspiracy theory was promoted by the "Epoch Times", which was the mouthpiece of the anti-China cult "Falungong", which has been sheltered and fostered by the United States.
On April 7, 2020, a 54-minute video of a 54-minute "documentary" and "tracing the source of the virus" in the Epoch Times spread on mainstream overseas websites such as YouTube, and because the video rumors were too absurd, they were immediately refuted by well-known media and experts and scholars in many countries. On April 18, 2020, the BBC refuted a number of rumors on its website about the new crown virus epidemic, including the rumor that the new crown virus spread by "Falungong" originated from a laboratory in Wuhan.
Since this rumor is very deceptive and inflammatory, there is still a certain market on the Internet. Some US politicians and anti-China organizations have used this as an excuse to try their best to throw the pot at China, seize the opportunity to smear China, and shirk the responsibility for ineffective epidemic prevention.
On March 19, 2020, the speech of then-US President Trump at the White House press conference was photographed by reporters, and the "new crown virus" in the manuscript was crossed out, and the handwriting was changed to "Chinese virus"
In an interview conducted by buzzfeed News, a disinformation analysis expert believes that Trump is the beneficiary of this conspiracy theory and disinformation, because pushing all the problems to a laboratory in Wuhan makes Trump find a "scapegoat" for his dereliction of duty in epidemic prevention work.
It can be seen that the surge in anti-Asian hate crimes in the context of the epidemic is largely the result of some anti-China politicians and "Falungong" media in the United States contributing to the politicization of the new crown epidemic and stigmatizing China.
A study in the American Journal of Public Health showed that the number of related tweets with the "anti-Asian" label rose sharply in the week after Trump posted "China virus" inflammatory remarks on Twitter in March 2020.
Yin Russell, one of the founders of Stop Hate for Asia-Pacific Americans and a professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University, pointed out that there is a clear link between the inflammatory rhetoric used by Trump, such as the "Chinese virus," and the hate speech spread on social media and hate violence against Asians, because these racist words amount to "providing a license" for attacking Asians.
After the Atlanta shooting, White House spokesman Psaki said, "What cannot be ignored is that the Trump administration's hurtful rhetoric is one of the reasons for the increased threat to Asian Americans, and the impact is very large." ”
Trump's hurtful remarks are inseparable from the seductive and demagogic propaganda of the "Falungong" cult media.
Obviously, in the context of the epidemic crisis, the stigmatizing Remarks of China concocted by the "Falungong" cult have become a fuel for inciting anti-Asian sentiments, allowing Trump and the like to find an outlet for ineffective governance, resulting in the Asian community becoming a "scapegoat" for the epidemic. The dregs of anti-Asian hate crimes in the United States, "Falungong" bears the responsibility behind the scenes.
Although, the World Health Organization has clarified that Wuhan, China, is not the source of the new crown virus, the virus comes from nature. However, to this day, the "Falungong" cult continues to spread rumors about him in some countries around the world and spreads remarks of hatred for Asians.