Overcome the fear and hatred that comes from ignorance and band together with Asians!

Overcome the fear and hatred that comes from ignorance and band together with Asians!

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March 1, 2021
Signatures: 186Next Goal: 200
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Started byย mustardseed VANK

#WITHASIANS

The fear coming from ignorance and difference is spreading with the pandemic.

According to Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council(A3PCON), 2,680 hate crimes occurred in 46 states of the United States in the last 12 months.

The number of Chinese-American victims reached 40.8%, followed by Korean-American(15.4%), Vietnamese-American(7.9%), Filipino-American(7.3%), Japanese-American(6.6%).

70.9% of hate crimes were verbal abuse, 10% were discrimination and denial of service in workplaces, physical attacks 9%, and 6.4% of cases were counted as intentionally coughing or spitting toward Asians.

Recently, physical attacks are happening more boldly and bluntly.

At the end of last month, in San Francisco, an 84-year-old Thai-American man was attacked when he was walking, hit his head on the floor, and died. Also in Oakland, a 91-year-old Asian-American man was targeted for hate crime and was severely injured.

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The pandemic intensified human anxiety and suspicion, and this often paralyzes logical reasoning. This is the reality we are facing.

But it is our choice how to respond to the reality.

Hatred on minority is a wimpish and easy choice.

Hate crime perpetrators know that minorities didn't do any wrong, but they are making the wimpish choice that easily relieves anxiety and gains a sense of belonging to majority.

We can make a more elegant choice. We should introspect on anxiety and band together.

We must reveal the reality of the false ideology that justifies hate and prejudice. Even if it is said that China is the epicenter of the pandemic, would any reason be there that Asian-Americans who have never been to China were to be the target of hate crime?

If we remain silent, false ideology will be justified and socially accepted.

We should not use others as a means of relieving sentiment without overcoming anxiety, but should overcome the fear that comes from ignorance and hold others' hands and make change together.

Change does not start on a large scale. It starts with everyday practices.

  • - Thinking about the stereotypes I already have.
  • - Making complaints on the stereotypes that mass media produce.
  • - Sympathize with the victims of racism.

are what we have to do.

We should tell others that hatred toward others in this pandemic era is only a coward choice.

We must overcome the ignorance and discrimination, and start change with Asians!

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If you have any everyday methods to stop racism

or, if you have witnessed any racist acts

or, if you have been racially discriminated,

Please leave a comment below or share this post with hashtag #WITHASIANS!

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(ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด)

๋ฌด์ง€์—์„œ ์˜ค๋Š” ๋‘๋ ค์›€๊ณผ ํ˜์˜ค๊ฐ์ •์„ ๋„˜์–ด์„œ, ์•„์‹œ์•„์ธ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”!

#WITHASIANS

๋ฌด์ง€์™€ ๋‹ค๋ฆ„์—์„œ ์˜ค๋Š” ๋‘๋ ค์›€์ด ์ „์—ผ๋ณ‘๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํผ์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์•„์‹œ์•„ ์ธ๊ถŒ๋‹จ์ฒด ์—ฐํ•ฉ๊ธฐ๊ตฌ์ธ โ€˜์•„์‹œ์•„ ํผ์‹œํ”ฝ ์ •์ฑ…๊ธฐํš์œ„์›ํšŒ(A3PCON)โ€™์— ์ตœ๊ทผ 1๋…„ ๊ฐ„ ์ ‘์ˆ˜๋œ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด ์ž๋ฃŒ์— ์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ฆ์˜ค ๋ฒ”์ฃ„๋Š” ์ „์ฒด 50๊ฐœ ์ฃผ ์ค‘์—์„œ 46๊ฐœ ์ฃผ์—์„œ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋ชจ๋‘ 2์ฒœ680๊ฑด์— ๋‹ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ค‘๊ตญ๊ณ„ ํ”ผํ•ด์ž๊ฐ€ 40.8%๋กœ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋งŽ์•˜๊ณ , ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณ„(15.4%), ๋ฒ ํŠธ๋‚จ๊ณ„(7.9%), ํ•„๋ฆฌํ•€๊ณ„(7.3%), ์ผ๋ณธ๊ณ„(6.6%) ์ˆœ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์œ ํ˜•๋ณ„๋กœ๋Š” ์ฆ์˜ค ๋ฒ”์ฃ„์˜ 70.9%๊ฐ€ ์–ธ์–ดํญ๋ ฅ์ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ง์žฅ ๋‚ด ์ฐจ๋ณ„๊ณผ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋Š” 10%๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์  ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์„ ๊ฐ€ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋„ 9%, ์˜๋„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์•„์‹œ์•„๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๊ธฐ์นจํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์นจ์„ ๋ฑ‰๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋„ 6.4%๋กœ ์ง‘๊ณ„๋์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ตœ๊ทผ ๋“ค์–ด ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์  ํญ๋ ฅ์ด ๋” ๋Œ€๋ฒ”ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋…ธ๊ณจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ง€๋‚œ๋‹ฌ ๋ง ์ƒŒํ”„๋ž€์‹œ์Šค์ฝ”์—์„œ๋Š” 84์„ธ ํƒœ๊ตญ๊ณ„ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์ด ์‚ฐ์ฑ…๊ธธ์— ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„ ๋ฐ”๋‹ฅ์— ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ถ€๋”ช์นœ ๋’ค ์ˆจ์กŒ๊ณ , ์˜คํด๋žœ๋“œ(์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„)์—์„œ๋„ 91์„ธ ์•„์‹œ์•„๊ณ„ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์ด ์ฆ์˜ค๋ฒ”์ฃ„ ํ‘œ์ ์ด ๋ผ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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์ „์—ผ๋ณ‘์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ณผ ์˜์‹ฌ์€ ๊ฐ•ํ™”๋˜๊ณ , ๊ฐ•ํ™”๋œ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ณผ ์˜์‹ฌ์€ ์ด์„ฑ์„ ์ข…์ข… ๋งˆ๋น„์‹œํ‚ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ๋งˆ์ฃผํ•œ ํ˜„์‹ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด ํ˜„์‹ค์— ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜์‘ํ•  ์ง€๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์„ ํƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์†Œ์ˆ˜์ž์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ˜์˜ค๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์„ ํƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‚˜์•ฝํ•˜๊ณ  ์‰ฌ์šด ์„ ํƒ์ง€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ฆ์˜ค๋ฒ”์ฃ„ ๊ฐ€ํ•ด์ž๋“ค์€ ์†Œ์ˆ˜์ž๋“ค์ด ์‹ค์€ ์ž˜๋ชป์ด ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฐ„ํŽธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์„ ํ•ด์†Œํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค์ˆ˜๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์†Œ์†๊ฐ์„ ์–ป๋Š” ๋‚˜์•ฝํ•œ ์„ ํƒ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋” ํ’ˆ๊ฒฉ ์žˆ๋Š” ์„ ํƒ์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์„ฑ์ฐฐํ•˜๊ณ , ์—ฐ๋Œ€ํ•ด์•ผํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ˜์˜ค์™€ ํŽธ๊ฒฌ์„ ์ •๋‹นํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์ง“ ์ด๋ฐ์˜ฌ๋กœ๊ธฐ์˜ ์‹ค์ฒด๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ ค๋‚˜๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ค‘๊ตญ์ด ์ „์—ผ๋ณ‘์˜ ๋ฐœ์›์ง€๋ผ ํ•˜๋”๋ผ๋„, ์ค‘๊ตญ์— ๊ฐ€๋ณธ ์  ์—†๋Š” ์•„์‹œ์•„๊ณ„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์ด ํ˜์˜ค๋ฒ”์ฃ„์˜ ๋Œ€์ƒ์ด ๋  ์ด์œ ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?

์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์นจ๋ฌตํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ฑฐ์ง“ ์ด๋ฐ์˜ฌ๋กœ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ •๋‹นํ™”๋˜๊ณ , ์‚ฌํšŒ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์šฉ์ธ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์„ ์ด๊ธฐ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ์ฑ„ ํƒ€์ธ์„ ๊ฐ์ • ํ•ด์†Œ ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ€ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๋ฌด์ง€์—์„œ ์˜ค๋Š” ๋‘๋ ค์›€์„ ๋ฒ„ํ‹ฐ๊ณ  ๋„˜์–ด์„œ์„œ ํƒ€์ธ์˜ ์†์„ ์žก๊ณ  ์„ธ์ƒ์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚˜๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์ฐฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ์ƒ์ ์ธ ์‹ค์ฒœ์—์„œ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • - ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณ ์ •๊ด€๋…์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ
  • - ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์‚ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณ ์ •๊ด€๋…์— ํ•ญ์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ
  • - ์ธ์ข…์ฐจ๋ณ„ ํ”ผํ•ด์ž์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์— ๊ท€ ๊ธฐ์šธ์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ

์ „์—ผ๋ณ‘ ์‹œ๋Œ€ ํƒ€์ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ˜์˜ค๋Š” ๋น„๊ฒํ•œ ์„ ํƒ์ž„์„ ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๋ฌด์ง€์™€ ์ฐจ๋ณ„์„ ๋„˜์–ด ์•„์‹œ์•„์ธ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”!

์ธ์ข…์ฐจ๋ณ„์„ ๋ง‰๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ผ์ƒ์  ์‹ค์ฒœ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ• ํ˜น์€ ์ธ์ข…์ฐจ๋ณ„์„ ๋‹นํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋‹ด์•„ #WITHASIANS ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ SNS์— ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋Œ“๊ธ€์„ ๋‚จ๊ฒจ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”!

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