the Asian community denounces the racism of which it is the victim

On social networks, indignation is mounting in the face of the multiplication of racist speeches and acts targeting the Asian community linked to the irrational fear of the coronavirus in France. The one of the Mail Picard, titled “Chinese Coronavirus: Yellow Alert” first triggered an avalanche of indignation. The International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism filed a complaint, despite the justification of the periodical.

Then, on Twitter, many Internet users began to react to the rise of anti-Asian racism linked to the epidemic in progress in the Middle Empire, with the hashtag #JeNeSuisPasUnVirus. “Three somewhat sick Asian students from the school where I work fought violently because some other kids made fun of them saying they brought the virus back to France “, testifies one of them.

“Good luck to people of Asian descent, human bullshit is the biggest virus yet to be eradicated“Another expressed on the social network. A viral post posted on Facebook by a young girl of Asian origin has been shared thousands of times. She denounces” a liberation from racist speech in the media and on social media, “due to the coronavirus health crisis.