This is my advice to @kimmythepooh should she wish to hear it. It’s hard to get a barrage of criticism. Get some distance. And then reflect. Reflect on what caused so much pain to so many. Reflect on how perhaps your piece wasn’t as fair and balanced as you thought it was. 1/ https://twitter.com/kimmythepooh/status/1198752378071199744

Reflect on what you did with your platform: reduced and minimized an Asian American candidate who has been suppressed by the media, thus coloring the impressions of all your readers who didn’t know him. 2/

What service did you perform for Asian America? What value did you provide to the American public? Did you choose to devote your 1k words to his solutions to the problems that causes so many to suffer? His vision for a better world for our kids? 3/

Take the time to listen to his long-form interviews. Try to understand why so many of your fellow Asian Americans feel so much inexpressible pride towards him. It goes way beyond a shared identity. 4/

And then perhaps you’ll respond with humility and a willingness to listen and learn, and be worthy of the privilege of your platform. /end