Given the political and racial environment of the U.S., President Trump's words could have harmful consequences, Andy Kang, executive director of civil rights nonprofit Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Chicago, tells NBC News. - NBCAsianAmerica
revealed that the FBI has visited at least 10 universities since 2018 to urge them to develop protocols for monitoring students and visiting scholars from Chinese state-affiliated research institutions.
Public health authorities, including the World Health Organization, have warned that using terms that tie certain groups or industries to diseases are inaccurate and could be incendiary. In 2015, the WHO revised its naming guidelines to avoid stigmatizing communities or industries. But Russell Jeung, chair and professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University, said we need not look to history to find evidence of such misdirected anger. The online hate crime reporting forumsaid it had received 1,843 incident reports from March 19 to May 13. In more than a quarter of incidents, perpetrators invoked the words"China" or"Chinese" in their acts of discrimination. In 17.
McEnany not only claimed that Trump's remark was an indictment of China, but she also shifted blame to media outlets, including CNN and The Washington Post, that she said had used language identifying the illness by origin or location, like"China virus," in January. That was before the Asian American Journalists Association released guidelines in February to urge news outlets to use more responsible reporting practices.
Manjusha Kulkarni, executive director of Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council, the group behind the reporting tool, said the rhetoric is an example of the president's pinning blame elsewhere, rather than taking responsibility for his handling of the virus.
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