The lingering, percolating, and horrifically lethal anti-Asian racism and hatred that the Trump administration (the worst in the last century), Trump being the worst President in all of U.S. history, has inspired, encouraged, and promoted the worst nativist, racist, white Christian supremacist, and xenophobic elements in U.S. culture (the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 being a notorious precursor). Trump pejoratively calling Covid-19 the “kung flu” was beyond obscenely racist, it was recklessly dangerous as the spate of anti-Asian hate crimes and killings have demonstrated.
That at least in one instance of assault the perpetrator was a person of color, a parolee who was imprisoned for murdering
his mother, only illustrates the pernicious ways in which the legacies of white
Christian supremacy have at different times and in different forms manifested
themselves in those who are historically the victims. That the dying embers of Trump’s MAGAt white
Christian supremacism should bleed into other demographics is the same
counterintuitive phenomenon evident in other neofascist tendencies such as the
Proud Boys and boogaloo bois which elicits support from across the fascistic-ethnic
spectrum, although obviously always heavily dominant among white Christian supremacists.
The House has just passed the anti-Asian hate crimes
bill, also referred to as the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act, sending it to the White
House for Biden’s signature. The bill
must be signed into law immediately.
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