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Anti-Asian hate crimes and harassment rise to historic levels during COVID-19 pandemic


Anti-Asian hate crimes and harassment rise to historic levels during COVID-19 pandemic
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A rally against anti-Asian hate crimes at Los Angeles State Historic Park on Feb. 20. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Kiwi Wongpeng was stopped at a traffic light in suburban Cleveland when a man pulled up beside her and motioned for her to roll down the window.
Get out of my country that’s an order!” he shouted from his pickup. After a pause, he added: I’ll kill you.
It wasn t her first brush with racism. But she had never heard something so direct and violent until last April, as cities around the country were shutting down amid the COVID-19 pandemic. ....

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'Gran Torino' Star Bee Vang Denounces Film's Anti-Asian Slurs


Gran Torino Star Bee Vang Denounces Film s Anti-Asian Slurs
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“Gran Torino” actor Bee Vang published an op-ed in NBC News’ “Think” column on Wednesday criticizing the anti-Asian slurs in the 2008 movie directed by Clint Eastwood.
Playing Thao Vang Lor in the film alongside Eastwood, Vang said the lead role was a historic cinematic moment for Hmong people, a Southeast Asian ethnic group, around the world. While the story is about two people from different backgrounds that came together to form an unlikely bond, the film featured a many anti-Asian slurs.
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“At the time, there was a lot of discussion about whether the movie’s slurs were insensitive and gratuitous or simply ‘harmless jokes, ” Vang wrote. “I found it unnerving, the laughter that the slurs elicited in theaters with predominantly white audiences. And it was always white people who would say, ‘Can’t you take a ....

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