frustrations with the way some white journalists cover the coronavirus

Christopher Huang
7 min readJan 29, 2020

A few frustrations regarding the recent coronavirus coverage and the :

There’s a vast history of anti Chinese/Asian racism by white journalists/writers/politicians/policymakers of labeling Chinese people as dirty/exotic/weird/subhuman. It was part of overall justification of violence and murder of Chinese people.

In this piece, although I recognize it’d be more impactful if I had video/audio/text clips from throughout my life demonstrating this kind of biased commentary, I’m going to…

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Christopher Huang

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