[size=0.9375]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.[size=0.8125]Credit...Cayce Clifford for The New York Times
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.
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. On Monday evening, Mr. Trump tweeted, “It is very important that we totally protect our Asian American community in the United States.” He added they should not be blamed for the pandemic, though he did not comment on his use of the phrase “Chinese virus.”
It is very important that we totally protect our Asian American community in the United States, and all around the world. They are amazing people, and the spreading of the Virus....
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.
Image [size=0.9375]Tony Du, an epidemiologist in Howard County, Md., said that hearing government leaders call the coronavirus the “Chinese virus” had made him afraid for his son, Larry, 8.[size=0.8125]Credit...Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times
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.”
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[size=0.9375]“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.’”[size=0.8125]Credit...Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times
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.
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[size=0.9375]Edward, a videographer in Syracuse, N.Y., said he was still shaken from a recent episode in a grocery store.[size=0.8125]Credit...Libby March for The New York Times
“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.”
Sabrina Tavernise is a national correspondent covering demographics and is the lead writer for The Times on the Census. She started at The Times in 2000, spending her first 10 years as a foreign correspondent.
Rich Oppel is a national enterprise and investigative correspondent based in New York. Since joining The Times in 1999, he has also covered business, Washington, a national presidential campaign, and for six years was a war correspondent in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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I hope this is a wake up call to those naive Asian-Americans who support Trump, of which they exist and I know a few being Asian myself. At the end of the day Trump doesn't fight for you, he fights for an ever-shrinking demographic of besieged, ignorant, resentful, 'economically anxious' whites who want to blame everyone but the elite for their and America's problems. When push comes to shove, you are not a part of Trump's America, his America doesn't consider you American, and his America will turn against you as a foreign threat because of how you look.
请大家快去点击声援：纽约时报关于美华和亚裔受新冠歧视的文章出来了刚出来不到一小时，现在留言还不是很多，写的挺中肯客观的，大家快去留言下，把这个文章推上去： https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/us/coronavirus-asian-americans-attacks.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage 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. [size=0.9375]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.[size=0.8125]Credit...Cayce Clifford for The New York Times By Sabrina Tavernise and Richard A. Oppel Jr. [size=0.8125]March 23, 2020Updated 8:23 p.m. ET 1315 [size=0.875] Leer en español 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. [size=0.5625] ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story “That person didn’t look strange or angry or anything, you know?” she said of her tormentor. “He just looked like a normal person.” [size=0.875]LIVE UPDATES [size=1.0625] For thelatest updates on the coronavirus, read our live briefing. 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,” rejectingthe World Health Organization’s guidanceagainst using geographic locations when naming illnesses, since past names have provoked a backlash. [size=0.5625] ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story 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. On Monday evening, Mr. Trump tweeted, “It is very important that we totally protect our Asian American community in the United States.” He added they should not be blamed for the pandemic, though he did not comment on his use of the phrase “Chinese virus.” 21.9K people are talking about this “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.”Latest Updates: Coronavirus Outbreak [size=1.0625] President Trump hints at a short shutdown: “I’m not looking at months.” [size=1.0625] The White House team warns of an alarming “attack rate” in New York. [size=1.0625] The president pushes malaria medications, despite caution from doctors. See more updates More live coverage: Markets U.S. New York 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 Universityfound a 50 percent risein 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. [size=0.5625] ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story Professor Jeung has helped set upa website in six Asian languagesto gather firsthand accounts; some 150 cases have been reported on the site since it was started last Thursday. Image [size=0.9375]Tony Du, an epidemiologist in Howard County, Md., said that hearing government leaders call the coronavirus the “Chinese virus” had made him afraid for his son, Larry, 8.[size=0.8125]Credit...Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times 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. [size=0.5625] ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story 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,” shewrote on Twitteron 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 attackedin 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 Citya woman wearing a maskwas kicked and punched in a Manhattan subway station, anda man in Queenswas 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 Armamentin 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. [size=0.5625] ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story “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 aGoFundMe accountto 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.” Image [size=0.9375]“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.’”[size=0.8125]Credit...Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times For American-born Asians, there is a sudden sense of being watched that is as unsettling as it is unfamiliar. [size=0.5625] ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story “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. Image [size=0.9375]Edward, a videographer in Syracuse, N.Y., said he was still shaken from a recent episode in a grocery store.[size=0.8125]Credit...Libby March for The New York Times “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.” [size=0.5625] ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story 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.” Coronavirus in the United States [size=1.1875]She Was More Than a Statistic in a Pandemic: ‘We Didn’t Want Her to Get Lost’ March 22, 2020 [size=1.1875]In Seattle, It Started With Panic. Then the Deeper Anxiety Set In. 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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.
[size=0.9375]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.[size=0.8125]Credit...Cayce Clifford for The New York Times
By Sabrina Tavernise and Richard A. Oppel Jr.
[size=0.8125]March 23, 2020Updated 8:23 p.m. ET
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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.
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“That person didn’t look strange or angry or anything, you know?” she said of her tormentor. “He just looked like a normal person.”
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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.
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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. On Monday evening, Mr. Trump tweeted, “It is very important that we totally protect our Asian American community in the United States.” He added they should not be blamed for the pandemic, though he did not comment on his use of the phrase “Chinese virus.”
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“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.” Latest Updates: Coronavirus Outbreak
[size=1.0625]President Trump hints at a short shutdown: “I’m not looking at months.”
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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.
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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.
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[size=0.9375]Tony Du, an epidemiologist in Howard County, Md., said that hearing government leaders call the coronavirus the “Chinese virus” had made him afraid for his son, Larry, 8.[size=0.8125]Credit...Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times
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.
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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.
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“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.”
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[size=0.9375]“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.’”[size=0.8125]Credit...Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times
For American-born Asians, there is a sudden sense of being watched that is as unsettling as it is unfamiliar.
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“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.
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[size=0.9375]Edward, a videographer in Syracuse, N.Y., said he was still shaken from a recent episode in a grocery store.[size=0.8125]Credit...Libby March for The New York Times
“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.”
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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.”
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一看就知道国内翻墙党。赶紧回去好好呆在你的幸福家园吧
有意见好好说, 像个正常人一样, 说出的话才有人听. 这次反华歧视会很严重, 要互相支持.
这次法轮功在社交媒体上, 放了很多中国人不堪面的影片. 版上这类ID也很多.
法轮功和中共一样，都是我们的敌人，让美华生存环境越来越危险。不遗余力的丑化华人。
最令我不能理解的是版上还有大量华人表示继续支持川普。让这么一个racist 连任，太可怕了。 如果美国的死亡率持续上升，一国总统天天喊着Chinese Virus, 华人的处境会有多危险，这些人难道都想不到吗？ 难道出门时把护照贴脑门上？
好好说话就被骂五毛粉红，说要积极抗疫不要给华人扣病毒帽子掏空美国帽子就被骂滚回wuhan集中营。这些都是亲身体验。
人话不需要说，版上有脑子的mm心知肚明，只有轮子根本听不到。
床铺道歉下一刻中国立马屎盆子扣实美军投毒 你信不信？受罪的是美国人里面也有很多华人好不好
他们不识英文，怎么看? 你觉得哪个走红的骂脏话的川粉大妈，识几个英文单词
不是都被赶出来了吗？还是好朋友吗？
那些光骂trump，对中国外交部坑都不敢吭声的，是以为美国人都跟你中国韭菜一样，随便骂吗？
反常必有妖，所以这些人背后一定有这么做的利益支持。他们说的不是人话，他们是政治发声工具，aka政治水军。
道歉也是对美国华人道歉，跟墙内韭菜没半毛钱关系。
川普和某国外交人员真的把人性中最坏的一面都展现出来了。犹太人被迫流亡的历史，难道没有让川粉们清醒吗？这都醒不来，还能有什么希望？
很清醒的认识，美华最大的三个敌人：
法轮功，中共，美国极右翼
中共和美国极右翼都是把美华当作喝之即来挥之即去的工具。
法轮功是搅*棍中间挑拨，没智商而且内心恶毒
没人要你选谁，每个人为自己的行为负责。
很多选民主党的不是对他们的一些政策不反对，但不是川粉像国内效忠习那样去效忠大嘴巴。而且选民主党的很多都受益于大嘴巴的减税政策，但他们不会为了一点蝇头小利小钱就唯利是图丧失了自己的尊严，多交税也不想要这些种族主义者。
贴脸上也没用， 你改不了你的皮肤和样貌。
那些傻逼是唤不醒的。他们的脑袋里除了自己少交了1%的税，啥都没有。估计等到自己被打死的时候还在心里骂：卧槽，都是CCP害我！
这次之后还选Trump的华人绝对是不能正常思维的
是的，漂一张白皮，再蓝皮护照贴脸上
你叫不醒装睡的人
轮子吧，反正逢中必反
我最诧异的是这点，里根，男克林顿，难道真的是绝版？
就好像胡锦涛温家宝可能也是绝版一样……
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签名档表态度
不用估计，看这几天华人各种群魔乱舞。
美国有100分的精力，本来可以都拿来抗疫，宣传，制造防护用品。咱是坚信美国可以短期内恢复的，天时地利啥都不缺。
除了有某个傻缺领导人
某些大妈们出于隔岸观火的目的，迅速披上川粉大衣，想分出50分来和ccp拉锯骂架，拉种族主义者（甚至包括三哥和绿绿）一起搞在美华人。
这不傻子都能看出来，到底谁在美国，谁不在，不在的到底在想什么么。
某些恶毒大妈id别来给我发口炮飞机票，你们既不在中国，也不在美国，天天口炮安排反对你的华人mm们两国来回飞，搞笑
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我一直觉得他们并在美国，也不关心华人死活，所以讲出来的东西都匪夷所思。
四年前， 我们是支持床铺的。 但是今年彻底改变了主意
same here
你去看下前因后果再来发言，推特赵立坚先开始的，然后是推特的新华社官方一直推了22遍种族主义，所有五毛 七毛八毛包括外宣 香港人台湾人大陆人海外华人就被这个本来是病毒起源变成了种族主义挟持了！所以大家都被ccp挟持了 就这么简单 床铺都被赵立坚说美国军方起源的，美国人的反应，人家一直强调退役军人的照顾和对军人的尊重，哪像ccp这次疫情共产党就是过劳死
那你四年前用啥ID上的华人？ 你说的支持是投票还是心里支持？ 你有投票权吗？ 你这个ID去年10月份才注册的
I hope this is a wake up call to those naive Asian-Americans who support Trump, of which they exist and I know a few being Asian myself. At the end of the day Trump doesn't fight for you, he fights for an ever-shrinking demographic of besieged, ignorant, resentful, 'economically anxious' whites who want to blame everyone but the elite for their and America's problems.
When push comes to shove, you are not a part of Trump's America, his America doesn't consider you American, and his America will turn against you as a foreign threat because of how you look.
对，让那些想趁火打劫的人掂量掂量不要以为我们亚裔都是弱鸡
放屁，从历史到现在，中共驱逐抹黑“纽约时代还”少吗？请不要造谣撒谎！
纽约时代这种还算正直的媒体，常常是因为说了真话而两边不讨好。
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