![]() ![]() ![]() “You’ll see in a heartbeat folks who work diligently, who do everything they’re asked to do when it comes to achieving the American dream, who are American, be let go in a heartbeat.” ’I don't think that business will recover’ “When President Trump continues to label this an Asian disease, it impacts the policy makers, it impacts the implementers, it impacts everyday dealings with folks,” Perry added. “By calling it a Chinese disease, you are one step away from saying don’t hire Chinese people,” he said, adding that because many Americans don’t understand nationality, ethnicity and race, the ramifications extend “to all people of Asian descent.” Moreover, employers are “influenced by the same negative views that the labeling of this disease creates and facilitates,” Andre Perry, a fellow at the Brookings Institution whose research focuses on race and economic inclusion, told ABC News. But imagine you had to deal with the double whammy of thinking about, am I going to be a target of an assault or, you know, sort of overt racism,” Yu told ABC News. “If you are a non-Asian business owner, I would say your predicament is hard enough, right? Your business is shutting down. Thomas Yu, the CEO of Asian Americans for Equality - a nonprofit based in NYC that Lin and Peng reached out to for assistance in obtaining economic relief - said that Asian American business owners are facing a “double whammy” amid the rising “xenophobia.” Malalis said she speculates that rhetoric made it so that “stigma immediately attached to Chinese and other Asian people and their communities," resulting in a hit to their businesses.Ĭourtesy of Hai Shian Peng via Asian Americans for Equality “I think, unfortunately, it is too easy for some people to scapegoat and stigmatize in times of fear," said Carmelyn Malalis, the commissioner of the New York City Commission on Human Rights and longtime advocate of employees’ rights in the workplace. ![]() Peng called the impact of the rhetoric "terrible," saying he never thought the incident that he and his son experienced would happen "because I am a citizen." Trump's rhetoric has been echoed by other administration officials and politicians - from local leaders to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, of California. President Donald Trump has repeatedly referred to the insidious respiratory disease as the “Chinese virus” at news briefings and on Twitter, doubling down even in the face of critics who pointed out that diseases don’t carry nationalities and the World Health Organization specifically naming the disease COVID-19 to avoid regional or ethnic stigma. Courtesy of Hai Shian Peng via Asian Americans for Equality 'By calling it a Chinese disease, you are one step away from saying don’t hire Chinese people' ![]()
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