“I am tired of people humanizing white terrorists and excusing their murderous acts,' Olivia Munn wrote in an Instagram post
has received nearly 3,800 hate incident reports since last March, which the organization notes is only a fraction of hate incidents that actually occur. Such incidents rose by nearly 150% in 2020, a year marked by President Donald Trump’s racist rhetoric against Asians in regard to the coronavirus pandemic.
“That the Asian women murdered yesterday were working highly vulnerable and low-wage jobs during an ongoing pandemic speaks directly to the compounding impacts of misogyny, structural violence and white supremacy,” Phi Nguyen, the litigation director at Asian American Advancing Justice- Atlanta, said in a statement.On Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on the discrimination and violence against Asian Americans at 10:00 a.m. ET. Actoris slated to speak.
“There’s something in the American psyche, there’s something in the psyche of people that somehow makes it OK for us to attack and verbally abuse Asian American, and especially the most vulnerable of us,” he says in the video.
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