UNCIVILIZED RACIST WHITE CHRISTIANS SPIT ON AND ATTACKED CHINESE AMERICANS

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/us/chinese-coronavirus-racist-attacks.html


Spit On, Yelled At, Attacked: Chinese-Americans Fear for Their Safety

As bigots blame them for the coronavirus and President Trump labels it
the “Chinese virus,” many Chinese-Americans say they are terrified of
what could come next.


Yuanyuan Zhu said a middle-aged man started shouting at her while she
was walking to her gym and then spit at her as she waited to cross the
street.Credit...Cayce Clifford for The New York Times



By Sabrina Tavernise and Richard A. Oppel Jr.

March 23, 2020Updated 3:58 p.m. ET


WASHINGTON — Yuanyuan Zhu was walking to her gym in San Francisco on
March 9, thinking the workout could be her last for a while, when she
noticed that a man was shouting at her. He was yelling an expletive
about China. Then a bus passed, she recalled, and he screamed after it,
“Run them over.”

She tried to keep her distance, but when the light changed, she was
stuck waiting with him at the crosswalk. She could feel him staring at
her. And then, suddenly, she felt it: his saliva hitting her face and
her favorite sweater.

In shock, Ms. Zhu, who is 26 and moved to the United States from China
five years ago, hurried the rest of the way to the gym. She found a
corner where no one could see her, and she cried quietly.



“That person didn’t look strange or angry or anything, you know?” she
said of her tormentor. “He just looked like a normal person.”




As the coronavirus upends American life, Chinese-Americans face a double
threat. Not only are they grappling like everyone else with how to avoid
the virus itself, they are also contending with growing racism in the
form of verbal and physical attacks. Other Asian-Americans — with
families from Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Myanmar and other places
— are facing threats, too, lumped together with Chinese-Americans by a
bigotry that does not know the difference.

In interviews over the past week, nearly two dozen Asian-Americans
across the country said they were afraid — to go grocery shopping, to
travel alone on subways or buses, to let their children go outside. Many
described being yelled at in public — a sudden spasm of hate that is
reminiscent of the kind faced by American Muslims and other Arabs and
South Asians after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

But unlike in 2001, when President George W. Bush urged tolerance of
American Muslims, this time President Trump is using language that
Asian-Americans say is inciting racist attacks.

Mr. Trump and his Republican allies are intent on calling the
coronavirus “the Chinese virus,” rejecting the World Health
Organization’s guidance against using geographic locations when naming
illnesses, since past names have provoked a backlash.


Mr. Trump told reporters on Tuesday that he was calling the virus
“Chinese” to combat a disinformation campaign by Beijing officials
saying the American military was the source of the outbreak. He
dismissed concerns that his language would lead to any harm.




“If they keep using these terms, the kids are going to pick it up,” said
Tony Du, an epidemiologist in Howard County, Md., who fears for his son,
Larry. “They are going to call my 8-year-old son a Chinese virus. It’s
serious.”

Mr. Du said he posted on Facebook that “this is the darkest day in my
20-plus years of life in the United States,” referring to Mr. Trump’s
doubling down on use of the term.

While no firm numbers exist yet, Asian-American advocacy groups and
researchers say there has been a surge of verbal and physical assaults
reported in newspapers and to tip lines.

San Francisco State University found a 50 percent rise in the number of
news articles related to the coronavirus and anti-Asian discrimination
between Feb. 9 and March 7. The lead researcher, Russell Jeung, a
professor of Asian-American studies, said the figures represented “just
the tip of the iceberg” because only the most egregious cases would be
likely to be reported by the media.

Professor Jeung has helped set up a website in six Asian languages to
gather firsthand accounts; some 150 cases have been reported on the site
since it was started last Thursday.




Benny Luo, founder and chief executive of NextShark, a website focused
on Asian-American news, said the site used to get a few tips a day. Now
it is dozens.

“We’ve never received this many news tips about racism against Asians,”
he said. “It’s crazy. My staff is pulling double duty just to keep up.”
He said he was hiring two more people to help.

No one is immune to being targeted. Dr. Edward Chew, the head of the
emergency department at a large Manhattan hospital, is on the front
lines of fighting the coronavirus. He said that over the past few weeks,
he had noticed people trying to cover their nose and mouth with their
shirts when they are near him.

Dr. Chew has been using his free time to buy protective gear, like
goggles and face shields, for his staff in case his hospital runs out.
On Wednesday night at a Home Depot, with his cart filled with face
shields, masks and Tyvek suits, he said he was harassed by three men in
their 20s, who then followed him into the parking lot.

“I heard of other Asians being assaulted over this, but when you are
actually ridiculed yourself, you really feel it,” he said the following day.

A writer for The New Yorker, Jiayang Fan, said she was taking out her
trash last week when a man walking by began cursing at her for being
Chinese.

“I’ve never felt like this in my 27 yrs in this country,” she wrote on
Twitter on Tuesday. “I’ve never felt afraid to leave my home to take out
the trash bc of my face.”



Attacks have also gotten physical.

In the San Fernando Valley in California, a 16-year old Asian-American
boy was attacked in school by bullies who accused him of having the
coronavirus. He was sent to the emergency room to see whether he had a
concussion.

In New York City a woman wearing a mask was kicked and punched in a
Manhattan subway station, and a man in Queens was followed to a bus
stop, shouted at and then hit over the head in front of his 10-year-old son.

People have rushed to protect themselves. One man started a buddy-system
Facebook group for Asians in New York who are afraid to take the subway
by themselves. Gun shop owners in the Washington, D.C., area said they
were seeing a surge of first-time Chinese-American buyers.

At Engage Armament in Rockville, Md., most gun buyers in the first two
weeks of March have been Chinese-American or Chinese, according to the
owner, Andy Raymond.

More than a fifth of Rockville’s residents are of Asian ethnicity, and
Mr. Raymond said buyers from Korean and Vietnamese backgrounds were not
unusual. But Mr. Raymond said he was stunned by the flow of Chinese
customers — in particular green-card holders from mainland China — that
began earlier this month, a group that rarely patronized his shop before.

“It was just nonstop, something I’ve never seen,” he said.

Mr. Raymond said that few of the Asian customers wanted to talk about
why they were there, but when one of his employees asked a woman about
it, she teared up. “To protect my daughter,” she replied.

For recent immigrants like Mr. Du who are in close touch with friends
and family in China, the virus has been a screaming danger for weeks
that most Americans seemed oblivious to.



Mr. Du is trying to remain hopeful. He spends his weekends training to
become a volunteer with Maryland’s emergency medical workers. He is part
of a group of Chinese-American scientists who organized a GoFundMe
account to raise money for protective gear for hospital workers in the
area. In three days, they raised more than $55,000, nearly all in small
donations.

But he said he was afraid of the chaos that could be unleashed if the
United States death toll rises significantly.

Already a gun owner, Mr. Du, 48, said he was in the process of buying an
AR-15-style rifle.

“Katrina is not far away,” he said, alluding to the unrest in New
Orleans following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. “And when all these bad
things come, I am a minority. People can see my face is Chinese,
clearly. My son, when he goes out, they will know his parents are Chinese.”




For American-born Asians, there is a sudden sense of being watched that
is as unsettling as it is unfamiliar.

“It’s a look of disdain,” said Chil Kong, a Korean-American theater
director in Maryland. “It’s just: ‘How dare you exist in my world? You
are a reminder of this disease, and you don’t belong in my world.’”

He added: “It’s especially hard when you grow up here and expect this
world to be yours equally. But we do not live in that world anymore.
That world does not exist.”



One debate among Asian-Americans has been over whether to wear a mask in
public. Wearing one risks drawing unwanted attention; but not wearing
one does, too. Ms. Zhu said her parents, who live in China, offered to
ship her some.

“I’m like, ‘Oh please, don’t,’” she said. She said she was afraid of
getting physically attacked if she wore one. “Lots of my friends, their
social media posts are all about this: We don’t wear masks. It’s kind of
more dangerous than the virus.”

A 30-year-old videographer in Syracuse, N.Y., said he was still shaken
from a trip to the grocery store last week, when the man ahead of him in
the checkout line shouted at him, “It’s you people who brought the
disease,” and other customers just stared at him, without offering to
help. That same day, he said, two couples verbally abused him at Costco.




“I feel like I’m being invaded by this hatred,” said the man, Edward,
who asked that his last name not be used because he feared attracting
more attention. “It’s everywhere. It’s silent. It’s as deadly as this
disease.”

He said he had tried to hide the details of what happened from his
mother, who moved to the United States from China in the 1970s. But
there was one thing he did tell her.

“I told her, whatever you do, you can’t go shopping,” he said. “She
needed to know there’s a problem and we can’t act like it’s normal anymore.”