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On Tuesday, March 16th, a 21-year-old terrorist went to three massage parlors in Georgia and killed eight people, six of whom were Asian women. Anything is justifiable and the oppressed are responsible for their own oppression. It's more important to hold China accountable and prevent this from happening again than it is to be politically correct.” This is how state-sanctioned racism functions. Whatever you want to call this virus, China is responsible. “In fact, everyone was referring to this as the Wuhan virus before China decided to push its propaganda. A GOP memo from 2020 included a justification for calling COVID-19 the Chinese virus. It wasn’t until the 1980s that the American government apologized for this atrocity and made reparations to interned people who were still alive. These camps only closed because of a Supreme Court decision stating the obvious, that imprisoning people for no good reason, was illegal. Japanese Americans were held in internment camps from 1942 to 1945 by way of Executive Order 9066. As an aside, Trump’s ban on Muslim immigration was simply building on anti-Asian legislation and so were other government efforts to restrict the movement of Asians within the United States. These laws remained in place until 1943, but immigration was still severely restricted for decades longer. This ban on Chinese immigration became permanent in 1902 and became the blueprint for disallowing the immigration of other groups of people to whom the U.S. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was a broader application of the Page Act, and included men, placing a moratorium on Chinese immigration for a decade and the Chinese immigrants who were in the country could not become citizens. The Page Act of 1875 banned Chinese women from immigrating to the United States to protect the labor market and to coddle a moral panic around prostitution. For more than a century, our laws have codified this brand of bigotry. The targets of this violence have, disproportionately been older people and women, the most vulnerable members of vulnerable communities.Īnti-Asian violence and discrimination are nothing new in the United States. These incidents have created a climate of fear in Asian communities across the United States. An 84-year-old Thai man is knocked down in San Francisco. A woman in Queens, NY is spit at while holding her baby. The effects were immediate-in 2020, there was a 150% increase in hate crimes against Asian Americans in 16 cities-physical and verbal harassment, and sometimes, much worse. Many Americans joined their leaders in espousing this hateful rhetoric. On March 10th, 2021, Trump issued a bizarre, pathetic statement, saying, “I hope everyone remembers when they’re getting COVID-19 (often referred to as the China Virus) Vaccine, that if I wasn’t President, you wouldn’t be getting that beautiful ‘shot’ for 5 years, at best, and probably wouldn’t be getting it at all. His secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, called it the “Wuhan virus.” That language morphed into the “China Virus,” and in moments of cruel humor, the “Kung Flu.” Members of the Trump administration would go on to use this toxic nomenclature for the remainder of the Trump presidency. The logotype is accompanied by a graphic symbol formed of the reversed counters of each “O,” a simple and scalable icon that will be highly recognizable on book spines.Between March 16th and March 30th of 2020, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump used the phrase “Chinese virus,” more than twenty times.
The left alignment of the logo speaks to clarity and simplicity, and nicely stacks the letters “RGB” while lining up the two circular “O”s as well. A rectangular “O” suggests the shape of a book or page, or a doorway or window. The logo is set in the versatile geometric sans Cy (by Supertype). The identity features a strong and confident wordmark designed to complement content that is powerful, risky, interesting and provocative. The imprint, announced today, will publish a mix of fiction, memoir and nonfiction from a curated selection of authors, predominantly focusing on BIPOC and LGBTQIA writers.
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