[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #797 bijna November

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Op dinsdag 21 juli 2020 23:52 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
Trump: Het wordt erger voordat het beter wordt. Verfrissende woorden imo. Kijk Donnie, je hoeft niet altijd te liegen dat alles 100% goed gaat

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Op woensdag 22 juli 2020 01:16 schreef Harvest89 het volgende:

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Wel cool dat hij het China virus blijft noemen.

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Op woensdag 22 juli 2020 01:28 schreef Kansenjongere het volgende:

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Wat is daar precies cool aan?
En zou hij het virus niet beter eens eindelijk serieus kunnen gaan nemen?

Fight the Virus. Fight the Bias. | Love Has No Labels | Ad Council

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A new public service announcement makes a point that federal leaders have largely overlooked: Asian-Americans are facing a surge of harassment linked to fears about the coronavirus pandemic.

The spot, which debuted on Tuesday, includes testimonials from a firefighter, a nurse, a driver, an artist, the celebrity chef Melissa King and others, who describe being told to “go back to China” or having people spit in their direction.

The somber ad, produced by the nonprofit Advertising Council with help from the Emmy-winning writer Alan Yang, ends with a request: “Fight the virus. Fight the bias.”

Anxiety about the novel respiratory virus, which was first detected in Wuhan, China, has fueled xenophobia and bigotry toward people of Asian descent. A coalition of civil rights groups recorded more than 2,100 incidents in 15 weeks; the New York City Commission on Human Rights recently described a “sharp increase in instances of hostility and harassment.” A list of recent cases compiled by the Anti-Defamation League chronicles “surging reports of xenophobic and racist incidents,” including Asian-owned stores defaced with racist graffiti, video chats disrupted by anti-Asian comments and people being beaten or denied entry to businesses.

President Trump has repeatedly described the coronavirus as the “Chinese virus” and, in recent weeks, as “kung flu,” despite saying publicly that it is “very important that we totally protect our Asian-American community in the United States” and that the pandemic is “not their fault in any way.” Inflammatory statements from leaders can exacerbate racist behavior, according to researchers and civil rights leaders.

The fight against pandemic-related harassment of Asian-Americans has largely fallen to civil rights groups, marketing agencies, social media accounts and nonprofit organizations, which have promoted hashtags like #IAmNotCovid19, #RacismIsAVirus, #HealthNotHate and #MakeNoiseToday.

Asiancy, an affinity group of the Wieden + Kennedy Portland ad agency, posted a video in May about the repercussions of recent anti-Asian discrimination. The marketing firm IW Group recruited actors, musicians, designers and influencers to participate in the #WashTheHate campaign.

The Ad Council, which also introduced a face mask initiative with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York this month, will roll out the new anti-harassment campaign online and on television.

The issue of racism toward Asians hit “very close to home,” said Mr. Yang, who is known for popular shows like “Parks and Recreation” and “Master of None.” He had just finished directing and publicizing “Tigertail,” a family drama made for Netflix featuring a nearly all-Asian and Asian-American cast.

One of the lead “Tigertail” actors, Tzi Ma, was at a Whole Foods store in Pasadena, Calif., early in the outbreak when a man approached in a car and told Mr. Ma that he “should be quarantined,” Mr. Yang said. Later, during an interview with Mr. Yang on Instagram Live, viewers left comments saying he and the interviewer, an Asian man, were the same person.

“This wasn’t an abstract idea to me, something theoretical,” Mr. Yang said. “I knew people this was happening to.” He described the production process as “an emotionally fraught time,” when he toggled between overseeing the shoot over Zoom and attending Black Lives Matter protests.

The result, Mr. Yang said, is a rare example of a nationwide marketing effort focused on Asian issues, represented by Asian-Americans from a wide range of backgrounds.

“It’s very meaningful to me,” he said. “I never saw this growing up.”

In a Pew Research Center survey, 58 percent of English-speaking Asian-American adults said expressions of racist or insensitive views about Asians had become more common since the pandemic began. More than 30 percent said they had encountered slurs or racist jokes in recent months, and 26 percent said they feared being threatened or physically attacked because of their race — a higher percentage than for Black, white and Hispanic adults.

But many Americans, including several non-Asian members of the production team working on the Ad Council’s campaign, have been unaware of pandemic-related racism, Mr. Yang said.

Steven Moy, the chief executive of the Barbarian ad agency, said campaigns like this one were “a good starting point.”

“I don’t know if this is enough, or how effective it will be, but let’s do baby steps and create awareness,” he said. “I have not seen enough of this — we should do more.”

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Op woensdag 22 juli 2020 01:39 schreef Harvest89 het volgende:

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Ik vind het een leuke dis naar China toe.

Maar het zal wel weer een hele erge racistische uitspraak zijn. Nu kunnen Amerikaanse Chinezen zich ook al s'nachts in slaap huilen.

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Op woensdag 22 juli 2020 01:39 schreef Harvest89 het volgende:

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Ik vind het een leuke dis naar China toe.

Maar het zal wel weer een hele erge racistische uitspraak zijn. Nu kunnen Amerikaanse Chinezen zich ook al s'nachts in slaap huilen.

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Op woensdag 22 juli 2020 01:39 schreef Harvest89 het volgende:

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Ik vind het een leuke dis naar China toe.

Maar het zal wel weer een hele erge racistische uitspraak zijn. Nu kunnen (Amerikaanse) Chinezen zich ook al s'nachts in slaap huilen.

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Op dinsdag 21 juli 2020 22:49 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Sorry, maar dit is onzin.

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Op woensdag 22 juli 2020 01:39 schreef Harvest89 het volgende:

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Ik vind het een leuke dis naar China toe.

Maar het zal wel weer een hele erge racistische uitspraak zijn. Nu kunnen Amerikaanse Chinezen zich ook al s'nachts in slaap huilen.

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Government payments to farmers have surged to historic levels under President Donald Trump as the Agriculture Department floods the industry with cash to stem the financial losses from Trump’s tariff fights and the coronavirus pandemic.

But as agriculture grows more reliant on unprecedented taxpayer support, farm policy experts and watchdog groups warn the subsidies are growing too big and too fast, with no strings attached and little oversight from Congress — and that Washington could have a difficult time shutting off the spigot.

Direct farm aid has climbed each year of Trump’s presidency, from $11.5 billion in 2017 to more than $32 billion this year — an all-time high, with potentially far more funding still to come in 2020, amounting to about two-thirds of the cost of the entire Department of Housing and Urban Development and more than the Agriculture Department’s $24 billion discretionary budget, according to a POLITICO analysis. But lawmakers have taken a largely hands-off approach, letting the department decide who gets the money and how much.

The massive payments have been a political boon to Trump in farm country — he tweeted in January that he hoped the money would be “the thing they will most remember” — but risk creating a culture of dependency, as farmers and ranchers work the bonus subsidies into their financial plans when making large, up-front investments in seed, feed and farm machinery.

“It’s a big problem for agriculture because it’s not sustainable,” said Anne Schechinger, senior economics analyst at the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit watchdog organization. “It’s really difficult once you’re giving farmers this much money to then take away those [payments].”

It’s a problem for taxpayers, too: The size, speed and lack of scrutiny of the payments should concern the public, says Neil Hamilton, emeritus professor and former director of Drake University’s Agricultural Law Center.

“It’s just, ‘Here’s your check.’ There’s an incredible amount of trust that [farmers] will use it wisely,” he said. “But at the end of the day, it’s your and my tax money. It’s not a crazy idea to ask what the public’s getting from this, or could the public expect more for it.”

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Trump’s Request of an Ambassador: Get the British Open for Me

Woody Johnson, the N.F.L. owner, Trump donor and ambassador to Britain, was warned not to get involved in trying to move the tournament to a Trump resort in Scotland, but he raised the idea anyway — and he failed.

The American ambassador to Britain, Robert Wood Johnson IV, told multiple colleagues in February 2018 that President Trump had asked him to see if the British government could help steer the world-famous and lucrative British Open golf tournament to the Trump Turnberry resort in Scotland, according to three people with knowledge of the episode.

The ambassador’s deputy, Lewis A. Lukens, advised him not to do it, warning that it would be an unethical use of the presidency for private gain, these people said. But Mr. Johnson apparently felt pressured to try. A few weeks later, he raised the idea of Turnberry playing host to the Open with the secretary of state for Scotland, David Mundell.

In a brief interview last week, Mr. Mundell said it was “inappropriate” for him to discuss his dealings with Mr. Johnson and referred to a British government statement that said Mr. Johnson “made no request of Mr. Mundell regarding the British Open or any other sporting event.” The statement did not address whether the ambassador had broached the issue of Turnberry, which Mr. Trump bought in 2014, but none of the next four Opens are scheduled to be played there.

Still, the episode left Mr. Lukens and other diplomats deeply unsettled. Mr. Lukens, who served as the acting ambassador before Mr. Johnson arrived in November 2017, emailed officials at the State Department to tell them what had happened, colleagues said. A few months later, Mr. Johnson forced out Mr. Lukens, a career diplomat who had earlier served as ambassador to Senegal, shortly before his term was to end.

The White House declined to comment on Mr. Trump’s instructions to Mr. Johnson, as did the ambassador and the State Department.

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Op woensdag 22 juli 2020 01:44 schreef Tweek het volgende:
De Spaanse griep, is overigens terug te leiden tot de VS als beginpunt. Ik wacht nog steeds op het geld van ze dat het leed dat ze ons aangedaan hebben moet compenseren.

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Op woensdag 22 juli 2020 06:56 schreef Basp1 het volgende:
Best positief dat trump wat realistischer werd in zijn toespraak, ook dat hij een 180 graden draai gemaakt heeft over mondkapjes.

Ik vraag me alleen af wat er zou gebeurt zijn als hij een democraat was en opeens zo'n draai maakt dan was fox ontploft met weken indoctrinatie over flip flop geneuzel. Waarom is er nu geen ophef over op dat fair and balanced kanaal?

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Op woensdag 22 juli 2020 08:23 schreef Harvest89 het volgende:

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Meid wat erg! Hoe durft hij een virus dat uit China komt "China virus" te noemen.
En ik denk dat heel erg veel mensen het verschil tussen Chinezen en Koreanen niet zien, dat maakt ze niet racistisch hoor.
Zie jij het verschil tussen een Noor en een Zweed?

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Op woensdag 22 juli 2020 08:27 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Kan dit gewoon in ONZ aub?

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Op woensdag 22 juli 2020 08:28 schreef mcmlxiv het volgende:
Jij vind het wel OK om mensen lastig te vallen op basis van ras? Niet omdat ze iets te maken hebben met het probleem, maar gewoon omdat ze in dit geval een Aziatisch uiterlijk hebben?

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Op woensdag 22 juli 2020 08:28 schreef Harvest89 het volgende:
Je mag dus ook niet om uitspraken van Trump lachen.
Wat een vuile racist ben je dan zeg.

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Op woensdag 22 juli 2020 08:23 schreef Harvest89 het volgende:

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Meid wat erg! Hoe durft hij een virus dat uit China komt "China virus" te noemen.
En ik denk dat heel erg veel mensen het verschil tussen Chinezen en Koreanen niet zien, dat maakt ze niet racistisch hoor.
Zie jij het verschil tussen een Noor en een Zweed?