Kai Hopkins DB#12

For resources, I chose media coverage recommendations. The problem at hand here is directed specifically towards journalist covering the pandemic and those affected. The focus is portrayal of Asians and Asian Americans. According to these resources, the portrayal is in the negative which fuels xenophobia and racism against Asians. The resources go on to name things reporters should refrain from doing,such as recording generic views of Chinatown and avoid using phrases like “Wuhan Virus”, “Chinese Coronavirus”, and “China Coronavirus.” For stories, I picked ‘Tired’ by Alice Tsui. Tsui writes about how common anti-Asian sentiments have become during this pandemic. There has been a huge increase in slurs and verbal attacks against Asian American’s because they are seen to have “started” the coronavirus. She provides various amount of instances of people making nasty comments in public at anybody who “looks” Asian. The notion that Asians are more likely to have corona simply because of the way they look is obviously ridiculous. And for Frameworks I chose “With love, from the end of the world” by Kai Cheng Thom. This statement by Kai Cheng Thom, helps us understand the discontent among the people due to the most powerful people in America. In 2016, when Trump was elected, it affected  many people’s lives, most of them are gay and Black. In the years that followed, many brutal catastrophes occurred. I chose these excerpts because the all seem to be relevant topics that I hope will cease to exist even after the pandemic. Xenophobia, discrimination and  gender-based violence, will continue to be relevant topics that affect everyone, especially marginalized groups specifically Asian demographics that have been affected more in this pandemic. What especially stood out during the pandemic was increase emphasizing on the systematic racism and other social injustice problems as if these topics were not occurring before the pandemic.