#STOPTHEASIANHATE - Darn.exe Ep 21 - a podcast by Darnell Jesse

In this last year there has been increasing amounts of hate focused toward Asians across the world, as fools in a state of panic look for a group to blame for what is a global crisis that has negatively affected all of us. This has led to an almost 150% increase in Asian hate crimes in the US, yet alone all of the other countries in Europe and across the world where these kinds of racist attacks both verbally and physically have been becoming more prevalent.

These issues have escalated to a point where Asian people’s lives have not only been changed negatively, THEY’VE BEEN LOST PERMANENTLY.  And on the 16th of March 2020, Soon Chung Park, age 74, Hyun Jung Grant, age 51, Suncha Kim, age 69, Yong Yue, age 63, Delaina Ashley Yaun, age 33, Paul Andre Michels, age 54, Xiaojie Tan, age 49,  and Daoyou Feng, age 44 were all murdered in a HATE CRIME TARGETED AT ASIAN OWNED BUSINESSES. If this isn’t a huge example of the devastating events that ignoring these kinds of issues can create then I don’t know what is.

In this podcast I go through a chronological timeline I’ve made of news articles from the US, UK, Italy and France to show that the growing hate towards Asian was seen and ignored. I also did this to help show people the way that the media is regionalising this issue to put up a smoke screen for what has been a growing GLOBAL phenomenon and downplaying the realities of the racism that has been on the rise for the last year or so. For the most place I think the media has been trash, misleading and shady in how they’ve presented these stories and it’s disgusting

Many thanks to Vania for joining me for this podcast as it would be very rich for me to speak solo on an issue that doesn’t fully affect me, and I really appreciate the perspective and honesty you brought to this episode.

And one last thing  #STOPTHEASIANHATE

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