tw-koreanhistory:

South Carolina beachgoer demands Asian-American CNN reporter ‘get out of his country’

A CNN reporter faced intolerance over her face mask and ethnicity at beaches in the South over the weekend.

CNN’s Natasha Chen said that she was interviewing the mayor of Tybee Island on Saturday when she was jeered for wearing a face covering.

“Somebody saw us and the mayor and I were both wearing masks and they yelled at us to take them off,” Chen recalled on Sunday. “Somebody claimed that sunlight is the best disinfectant.”

In a subsequent report, Chen revealed that she had also been harassed while working in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

“Within the past hour, there was a person who was not happy with what we were covering,” Chen said. “We’ve been talking to people — who have all been really nice, by the way — talking to us about how they’re social distancing, what they’re seeing with the crowds on the beach, but this person didn’t like it.”

“In addition to shouting at us while I had a mask on, he said to me to get out of his country with an expletive and that I was responsible for this, referring to my ethnicity,” she added. “So, that wasn’t nice.”

via https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/south-carolina-beachgoer-demands-asian-american-cnn-reporter-get-out-of-his-country/

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kind of funny, isn’t it? while CNN’s Natasha Chan is talking about the racist abuse she faced while reporting, on the side bar of the video CNN is peddling its special report for tonight: “CHINA’S DEADLY SECRET”.

one doesn’t even need to watch the report to know what this is all about. this is a variation on the racist “CHINA virus” rhetoric/narrative.

and this racist rhetoric/narrative about the virus originating in Asia is being pushed hard by not only trump and pompeo but also all the US media outlets.