Stop AAPI Hate

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Stop AAPI Hate is a website launched by San Francisco State University, the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council in Los Angeles and Chinese for Affirmative Action to track reports of discrimination, including "micro-aggressions".

Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism

A fact sheet published by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism in March 2021 claimed that Anti‐Asian Hate Crimes Surge 149% with 122 alleged hate crimes against Asian Americans in the country in 2020 versus 49 alleged hate crimes against Asian Americans in the country in 2019. The source data for these claims is not included with the report, which was heavily cited in the media. The report itself directed readers to Stop AAPI Hate and Asian Americans Advancing Justice.

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Assemblymember Phil Ting reported that he was able to divert $1.4 Million from the California State budget to Stop AAPI Hate.

Joint Op-Ed blaming President Trump for alleged anti-Asian sentiment

Stop AAPI Hate founders Russell Jeung, chair and professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University, Manjusha Kulkarni, executive director of the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council and Cynthia Choi, co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action wrote a joint op-ed published at the Los Angeles Times titled "Op-Ed: Trump’s racist comments are fueling hate crimes against Asian Americans. Time for state leaders to step in" published on April 1 2020.

Excerpt:

After news of the coronavirus broke in January, Asian Americans almost immediately experienced racial taunts on school campuses, shunning on public transit and cyber-bullying on social media. When President Trump insisted on labeling the coronavirus as the “Chinese virus” in early March, these attacks became more virulent and common.

The FBI now warns of an increase of hate crimes against Asian Americans, but we’ve already experienced a surge. Since the Stop AAPI Hate website, a project of the Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council and Chinese for Affirmative Action, launched on March 19 to track anti-Asian harassment, it has received more than 1,000 reports from people in 32 states detailing verbal abuse, denial of services, discrimination on the job or physical assaults.

Several people have reported others coughing at them, including this frightening incident: “A white man on open sidewalk approached and stepped directly in front of me and coughed in extremely exaggerated manner in my face — loudly, mouth wide open, about 2 feet from my face, said ‘take my virus.’”

'Coronavirus-Related' Hate Crimes and 'Microaggressions' Tracker

The Stop AAPI Hate website was referenced in an article titled "Online reporting center launched to track coronavirus-related hate crimes," by Theodora Yu at the Sacremento Bee in March 2020,

Verbatim:

In response to rising discrimination toward the Asian community resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, Californian organizations have launched an online response form to collect and track incidents of microaggressions and harassment.

The initiative was jointly established by advocacy organizations Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council and the Chinese for Affirmative Action based in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

The form records the date, time and address of the incident, among other details such as contact information of the person who is filing the report. Urgent matters should be reported to the police, according to form instructions.

The form is available in English, traditional and simplified Chinese and Korean so far, and will eventually be available in seven to ten languages, said Manjusha Kulkarni, executive director of the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council.

According to Kulkarni, community members who are immigrants with limited English proficiency are most comfortable filling the forms in their language of origin.

“We want to make it easy for them, especially seniors, to complete the forms,” she said.

The lack of language resources as well as fears related to the immigration statuses could be factors on why individuals have been hesitant to communicate with law enforcement about the hate crimes they’ve faced, she added.

Kulkarni said that the collected data will be used for a public education campaign, advocacy work and providing direct assistance.

It also allows the organizations to assess the extent and magnitude of these incidents and to develop strategic interventions, said Cynthia Choi, co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action, in a news release.

“We want community members to know they are not alone. They can speak out and help stop the spread of bigotry,” she said.

“This reporting will help us create effective policy solutions for long-lasting change with a deeper impact, so this doesn’t happen again to our communities or any other community,” said Assemblymember David Chiu, D-San Francisco and chair of the California Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus.

Experts and officials denounced President Trump’s labelling of COVID-19 as the “Chinese virus,” which could put Asian Americans at risk of virus-related retaliation.

Dr. Russell Jeung, chair and professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University, saw an increase of racist incidents against Asian Americans following inflammatory comments.

“Clearly, with such political framing, Asians of different ethnicities are being racially profiled as a foreign threat,” Jeung said.

“COVID-19 is a public health issue, not a racial one,” said Assemblymember Phil Ting, D-San Francisco. “Calling it a ‘Chinese virus’ only encourages hate crimes and incidents against Asian Americans at a time when communities should be working together to get through this crisis.”

All information recorded in the online forms will be kept confidential and only shared upon granted permission.

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