Takami Yamamoto ASA2 A02 Week 1

As the total number of confirmed Coronavirus cases approaching 140,000, everyone is one their nerves and have their fingers crossed that they won't be the next victim of this war between man and nature.
However, at this very critical moment, some people are trying to twist people's minds that Coronavirus is not nature to blame.
In the past week, one of the most famous Twitter lover President Donald Trump tweeted out his shallow mind and put so many people in danger.
President Trump used specifically the term "Chinese Virus" instead of "Coronavirus" and has potentially pressed on some people's backs to perform racial hate crimes against Asians in the country. There has been cased reported that Chinese men and women being threatened by people from other races, and there was even a Thai family that was hurt badly with the intent of murder by a non-Asian man.
Even before President Trump intentionally promoting racial discrimination against Asian Americans, there was already a huge amount of discrimination in our community just like Professor Valverde has described in her article Fight the Tower: A Call to Action for Women of Color in Academia. I do believe the life for Asian Americans will be even harder after this spread of pandemic disease as people always need someone to blame when bad things happen.
Question: Does making America hate Asian people really help Donald Trump to be re-elected?


Reference

Botsford, J. (2020). In Donald Trump’s remarks during a press conference last week, “corona” was crossed out and replaced with “Chinese,” reflecting his fixation on the coronavirus’s origins. Retrieved from https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/whats-at-stake-in-a-viruss-name

Valverde, Kieu-Linh Caroline (2013) "Fight the Tower: A Call to Action for Women of Color in Academia," Seattle Journal for Social Justice: Vol. 12: Iss. 2, Article 5. Available at: http://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sjsj/vol12/iss2/5