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‘Asians Are Victims Of White Supremacy’ Narrative Comes From Activists Pushing Policies Rejected By Many Asians

Stop AAPI Hate is sponsored by Chinese for Affirmative Action, which backs policies that would curtail Asians’ numbers in universities.

Jeffrey Cawood
‘Asians Are Victims Of White Supremacy’ Narrative Comes From Activists Pushing Policies Rejected By Many Asians
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The legacy media has a new narrative: that Asian-Americans are the victims of systemic racism fueled by white supremacy, brothers-in-arms with black Americans in a struggle against an oppressive country.

A barrage of news content to that effect, which accelerated after a white gunman shot and killed eight people, six of them Asian women, in Atlanta on March 16, had one thing in common: they drew from a group called Stop AAPI Hate, which was described as a new nonprofit that started aggregating hate incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders after a virus that originated in China began to spread worldwide.

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