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Free Download: Stop Asian Hate Poster Art

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Stop Asian/AAPI Hate Poster Art. Free Printable File Download is available:
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“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
-Nelson Mandela

Someone asked me why Asian Americans haven’t spoken up against the racism they’ve experienced until now. We have, but no one listened.

While Asians have experienced racism in America since the 1800s, issues that were brought up, were often dismissed–that their experiences didn’t matter and were “statistically insignificant”. In other cases, some accounts of racism go unchecked and unreported due to fear/retaliation, language barriers, or thinking that it wouldn’t matter as nothing could be done. Even when speaking up, the suppression olympics and the Model Minority stereotype creates the notion that the Asian voices don’t matter, because of the false perception of financial success or white-adjacency, when some immigrant Asians struggle with poverty and are marginalized with lack of resources and support. When stereotypes and hate-based jokes spread, internalized hate festers, escalating into micro-aggressions and violence. This anti-Asian hate didn’t form only within the last year with the coronavirus hate-speech (blaming Asians for the virus), but it has added fuel which unfortunately, normalized overt racism. The portrayal of Asians in media/Hollywood have perpetuated racist stereotypes of being considered the enemy, perpetual foreigners, culturally interior, exotic fetishes, submissive, punchlines and during the past year, as a political pawn. Historically, Asians in America and immigrants have always been blamed for various misfortunes (leading to the Chinese Exclusion Act, lynchings, Japanese internment camps, murders, etc), and it seems that history is repeating itself. It’s unfortunate that it took multiple deaths through video footages for mainstream media and politicians to pay attention. However, with social media giving power to people to mobilize, there is more conversation on racial justice, and thus, more accountability.

We have to do better–speak up for what is right and to work towards a better future. Change doesn’t happen overnight, but this is a start. Words and actions matter. We ALL deserve to be here.

Steps to combat the hate:
-Educate Yourself
-Become an Ally
-Mobilize (speak up, volunteer, donate)
If you see racism on the streets, don’t be a bystander. @ihollagram (with support from @hateisavirus and @advancingjustice_aajc) have created Bystander Intervention Training.
-Combat racism with solidarity (interracial dialogue and understanding)
-Spread the love and support each other: Check in on the AAPI community/friends, have conversations, support AAPI-owned businesses, ultimately, be a positive force.

#stopasianhate #stopaapihate #standwithasians #hateisavirus #stopracism #asianamerican @acttochange

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Design: Anti Asian Racism and Misogyny

. Posted by Sherrie Thai by Shaireproductions.com .
 
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Racism against Asians in America has been around since the 1800s, but within the last year, the ignorant Anti-Asian rhetoric from the former administration (blaming Covid on Asians), sparked upticks in racist attacks, with 68% of them were against women. Emboldened by the anonymity of masks and the lack of people on the streets, cowards have emerged, creating chaos and pain.
 
It is been devastating that during this Women’s History Month, there has been a mass shooting of women. The Georgian shooter of 6 Asian women was dismissed as a ‘sex addicted guy who was having a bad day’. That sad excuse is part of how Asians have been treated, where racist acts are overlooked, where Asians are deemed “overly sensitive”, and have been the punchline to jokes (even before Covid), dehumanized and degraded into nothingness, where violence is excused as a fluke. The murdered women were the most vulnerable–immigrant women, who were trying to support their family and survive. The racist stereotypes of the hyper-sexualized Asian woman fetish (yellow fever) mixed with misogyny caused this. Racism caused this. The continued dismissal of the hatred prevalent in our communities is killing us; as a society of different races, an offence to one race is an offence to all. Asians have been considered “statistically insignificant”, and the hatred has festered and created an environment of anger and fear. The Model Minority myth created out of white supremacy from the 1960s, was designed to pit races against each other and has been used as an excuse not to focus on the dire needs of an already vulnerable community.
 
Inspired by the reawakening of racial justice from George Floyd protests, there has been greater conversation and actions of racial justice; I hope that continues. Steps to combat the hate: Educate yourself, Become an Ally, Mobilize (speak up, volunteer, donate), and Spread the Love (support each other). Combat racism with solidarity.