Frankly, I& #39;ve never seen Asian American Twitter agree about anything as much as they agree about hating this op-ed by @andrewyang. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/01/andrew-yang-coronavirus-discrimination/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...
Opinion | Andrew Yang: We Asian Americans are not the virus, but we can be part of the cure

People’s livelihoods and families are being destroyed. And people are looking for someone to blame.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/01/andrew-yang-coronavirus-discrimination/
One major failing of this piece was that it praises Japanese American military service for showing patriotism during WWII, but declines to mention that the reward for that patriotism was to be stripped of citizenship and property and incarcerated.
If you want to learn more about this, I highly recommend @scottkurashige& #39;s book: https://www.amazon.com/Shifting-Grounds-Race-Americans-Multiethnic-ebook/dp/B00EM351GE/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2RFBF2GRRNQAJ&dchild=1&keywords=shifting+grounds&qid=1585859794&s=books&sprefix=shifting+grounds%2Caps%2C237&sr=1-2/">https://www.amazon.com/Shifting-...
The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles...

Los Angeles has attracted intense attention as a "world city" characterized by multiculturalism and globalization. Yet, little is known about the historical transformation of a place whose leaders...

https://www.amazon.com/Shifting-Grounds-Race-Americans-Multiethnic-ebook/dp/B00EM351GE/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2RFBF2GRRNQAJ&dchild=1&keywords=shifting+grounds&qid=1585859794&s=books&sprefix=shifting+grounds%2Caps%2C237&sr=1-2/
There& #39;s a phrase in that book that stuck with me. It describes Japanese Americans during WWII but it could be about Asian Americans today: "...a traumatic search for an identity to fit the increasingly narrowed parameters of Americanism"
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