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Actors Ming-Na Wen, Kelly Hu, Brian Tee, and many more are in our new BNF film calling for a stop to the hate. These leading Asian American voices expose the falsehoods of Trump’s dangerous rhetoric and call him out for his bigotry.
When Trump calls the coronavirus the “Chinese Virus” he INTENTIONALLY stirs up racism and hate against Asian Americans. It’s just another example of how our president’s xenophobia towards minority groups puts many at risk. Asian Americans shouldn’t have to live in fear.
Watch our film and go to www.bravenewfilms.org/StopHate to fight back against this pandemic of hate directed at Asian Americans.
#RacismIsAVirus
A big thank you to the powerful Asian American voices of Ming-Na-Wen, Kelly Hu, Alec Mapa, Randall Park, Brian Tee and Ken Jeong for being a part this incredibly important BNF film.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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have you had a hate crime directed at
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you or at someone you love there’s been
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a horrible explosion of hate crimes in
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this country and many of those hate
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crimes have been directed towards Asian
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Americans some false information based
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on lies and it has to be stopped we must
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stop the xenophobia we must stop the
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racism we must stop the hate announcing
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some important developments in a war
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against the Chinese virus why do you
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keep calling this the Chinese virus
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there are reports of dozens of incidents
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of bias against Chinese Americans in
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this country there has been an uptick in
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hate crimes against the Asian community
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aah
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the Chinese verse a fight against the
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Chinese virus raftsmen and bias
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anti-asian violence there was a person
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who was not happy with what we were
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covering he said to me to get out of his
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country with an expletive and that I was
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responsible for this referring to my
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ethnicity our daughter called us a few
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months ago to say that while she was
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crossing the street a man total stranger
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yelled out a hateful racial slur and
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told her to go back to where she came
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from I know friends who have been
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threatened who have been verbally
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assaulted had things thrown at them even
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had threats of harm to their children he
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was walking down the street last week
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when four people attacked him who use
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the term kung flu
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do you think that puts asian-americans
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no no no I think they probably would
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agree with it 100% this man and his two
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children stabbed at a Sam’s Club the
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suspect off the family was infecting
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people with a coronavirus walking my dog
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and they bodyslam me and took my dog and
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my dog screams he yelled at me on the
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train and said you people brought this
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virus here middle school students
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Jawa and John being gone they they were
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harassed near the spring garden subway
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station it was something about the
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killer virus like do you have your mask
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on or something just because we look
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Chinese definitely not pretty much
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unconscious Thailand wind bed he was
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probably the street when a dispute with
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a driver escalated
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it’s not racist at all you know this
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photo of his speech with the word
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Chinese replacing corona
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went viral ethnicity does not cause the
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virus comes from China most of the cases
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came from Europe what’s your assessment
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of those studies well I think that’s
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probably correct Europe became the
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epicenter pretty quickly after China in
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February most of the genomes point back
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to Europe and not China comes from China
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it’ll be accurate we didn’t see the
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spike in anti-asian violence until
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President Trump started saying
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– China virus the buyers that hate is
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scapegoating the Asian American Pacific
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Islander community as the ones that
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brought about the Philomath virus and
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that’s not true in just one month
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stop AAPI hates receives nearly 1500
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reports of racist incidents across the
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country directly linked to Koba 19 the
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mayor says he’s seeing an uptick in
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anti-asian bigotry you dirty Chinese and
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he just kept saying that over and over
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again I’ve never felt anything like this
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a woman who’s Asian says she was punched
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by another woman in midtown Manhattan
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and she accused her of having the covin
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19 virus
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the FBI has warned of a potential surge
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in hate crimes still to come
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my feeling animosity that I’ve never
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felt that far were your friends your
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neighbors or even the doctors and nurses
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that are risking their lives to help
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yours the essential workers and the ones
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on the front lines doing their part to
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try to keep us all safe they’re the ones
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being targeted agent Americans are
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feeling hate infect every part of our
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life we’re better than this diversity is
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what makes America great
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you
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