In Orange County, Another Asian American Public Official Fends Off Xenophobia, Racism

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Link to tweet

Here is a link to Josie Huang's newspaper report on this exchange:


In Orange County, Another Asian American Public Official Fends Off Xenophobia, Racism
By
Josie Huang
Published Oct 28, 2021 3:58 PM

https://laist.com/news/in-orange-county-another-asian-american-public-official-fends-off-xenophobia

This is her report on an earlier similar incident:

In Orange County, Anti-Vaccine Activists Attack Top Elected Official For His Vietnamese Heritage
By
Josie Huang
Published Jul 30, 2021 3:24 PM

https://laist.com/news/orange-county-anti-vax-activists-attack-supervisor-andrew-do-vietnamese-heritage

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1. good god...

I went through as much of the twitter feed as I could stand.

We need to start arresting these idiots and shipping them to an island far away. The amount of crap they believe and the extent to which they "research" public servants and the anger they express is off the charts.

I got as far as the woman that claims that masks are so dangerous because of the lack of oxygen (O2 molecules are many times smaller than the gaps in the fabrics of any mask) that people are dying of hypoxia!

I've been wearing KN95 masks for almost 2 years when I go outside... never even felt faint or short of breath.

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2. the convergence of anti-vaxers and white nationalists

That second article really opened my eyes. My wife experiences racist treatment occasionally in institutional environments, like the pharmacy where we got vaxed and other health care settings. it's usually less blatant, but I still can perceive it. When I start giving these people a dose of their own medicine, she wisely counsels me to behave. I still have to let people know what the problem is.