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NYT: Players of Asian Descent on the L.P.G.A. Tour Lift Silence on Racism and Sexism

New York Times (6/22/21 ([link removed]) )

This week on CounterSpin: A June New York Times article ([link removed]) about female Asian-American and Pacific Islander golfers reacting to the recent spike in anti-Asian bias began inauspiciously: "Players of Asian descent have won eight of the past 10 Women's PGA championships, but there is nothing cookie cutter about the winners." It reads like a TikTok challenge: "Tell me you assume your readership is white without telling me you assume your readership is white." In other words, it's unclear who, exactly, the New York Times believes would, without their guidance, confuse a Chinese-American player with a South Korean player with a player from Taiwan.

The piece goes on to talk about the concerns and fears of Asian-American golfers "at a time when Asians have been scapegoated in American communities for the spread of the coronavirus." Locating the source of racist bias and violence in "American communities," with no mention of powerful politicians or powerful media, is a neat way to sidestep the role of systemic, structural racism, and imply that bias or "hate" is an individual, emotional issue, rather than one we can and should address together, across community, as a society.

Add in media's frequent prescription of law enforcement as the primary response, and you have what a large number of Asian Americans are calling a problem presenting itself as a solution, and not a way forward that actually makes them safer.

We'll talk about anti-Asian bias and underexplored responses to it with Bianca Nozaki-Nasser, from the group 18 Million Rising ([link removed]) .

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