‘Asians Are Victims Of White Supremacy’ Narrative Comes From Activists Pushing Policies Rejected By Many Asians

Stop AAPI Hate is sponsored by Chinese for Affirmative Action, which backs policies that would curtail Asians’ numbers in universities.

The legacy media has a new narrative: that Asian-Americans are the victims of systemic racism fueled by white supremacy, brothers-in-arms with black Americans in a struggle against an oppressive country.

A barrage of news content to that effect, which accelerated after a white gunman shot and killed eight people, six of them Asian women, in Atlanta on March 16, had one thing in common: they drew from a group called Stop AAPI Hate, which was described as a new nonprofit that started aggregating hate incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders after a virus that originated in China began to spread worldwide.

But a Daily Wire investigation found that Stop AAPI Hate is tied to longstanding progressive groups pushing policies that some community members say oppose Asians’ actual interests.

The fiscal sponsor of Stop AAPI Hate is Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), which has received funding from left-leaning philanthropic foundations. CAA has advocated for affirmative action in school admissions, a policy that could sharply curtail the number of Asians at rigorous universities. Asians made up about 15% of California’s population, but 36% of University of California admissions in 2019.

Proposition 16, a California ballot measure that would allow affirmative action, was rejected by voters in November 2020, with polling suggesting that Asians played a strong role in the defeat. Stop AAPI Hate is billed as a joint project of CAA, the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council (A3PCON), and San Francisco State University. Officials from both CAA and A3PCON were part of the unsuccessful campaign to pass Proposition 16.



Stop AAPI Hate appears to seek to redirect anger over a rash of violent crimes against Asians — often committed by non-white suspects — to promote causes backed by progressive black activist groups.

“Our approach recognizes that in order to effectively address anti-Asian racism we must work to end all forms of structural racism leveled at Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color,” its website says.

Stop AAPI Hate’s media outreach is managed by Fenton, a group of progressive strategists whose client list includes the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a George Soros-linked network of liberal billionaires called the Democracy Alliance, and the black activist group Color of Change.



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