CNN Pins Mass Capturing on Trump: Did America By no means Study From (FDR’s) Internment Camps?

Even though Atlanta police have nonetheless refused to say race performed a consider Tuesday’s mass capturing — and the FBI is suggesting race was not an element — CNN Newsroom nonetheless blamed Republicans like former President Trump for the capturing on Thursday and puzzled if the nation has moved past issues comparable to World Conflict II internment camps. And who was president then? They by no means talked about liberal hero Franklin Roosevelt did that.

CNN’s visitor William Tong, Connecticut’s Lawyer Normal, declared, “I lay the blame on the toes of politicians like President Trump when he began his battle on American immigrants, that was actually unhealthy, it began to get unhealthy, however when he blamed Asia Pacific-Individuals, together with Chinese language-Individuals for the coronavirus and known as it the China Virus or the Kung Flu, that made all of us unsafe. And that is what occurs.” 

Tong moreover claimed, “Folks get attacked in New York and San Francisco and now in Atlanta. And now six ladies are lifeless. Six Asian-American ladies, eight folks complete have been murdered and the blood is on his fingers and different politicians like him.”

As an alternative of calling Tong out on his lie that Trump blamed Chinese language-Individuals for the virus, CNN’s Poppy Harlow puzzled if America remains to be a racist nation, “You’ve got been a sufferer of hate speech like this, repeatedly, and also you made a extremely vital level not too long ago and that is that this nation has a protracted historical past of legacy and hate and racism in opposition to Asians, simply going again to the internment camps. And also you additionally level to the — this as simply being the newest spherical of scapegoating. It makes me surprise in the event you assume we have realized a lot as a rustic.”

Scapegoating? Is not that what Tong was simply doing? And CNN was permitting, as a result of Trump?

Tong replied by claiming folks “do not know the legacy of the Chinese language Exclusion Act, the beating death of Vincent Chin and the internment of 125,000 Japanese-American residents in camps on American soil once we blame them for Pearl Harbor. Yeah, it occurs to me. It occurs on a regular basis.” 

Nonetheless working below the unproven assumption that what occurred in Atlanta was a racially motivated hate crime, Sciutto claimed, “politicians have given license to those sorts of emotions in opposition to Asians, in opposition to blacks, in opposition to Latinos.” 

Lower than 5 minutes later, after the interview with Tong had concluded, CNN was worrying in regards to the unfold of the “UK variant”, which below the logic of the previous interview, is inciting hate in opposition to Anglo-Saxon Individuals.

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Right here is the transcript of the March 18 present:

CNN

CNN Newsroom with Popp Harlow and Jim Sciutto

9:05 AM ET

WILLIAM TONG: Sure, let me simply say it was chilling to listen to that 911 name. And one of many sufferer’s accents. She may need been somebody in my household so, it is chilling for me and Asian-Individuals throughout the nation. I lay the blame on the toes of politicians like President Trump when he began his battle on American immigrants, that was actually unhealthy, it began to get unhealthy, however when he blamed Asia Pacific-Individuals, together with Chinese language Individuals for the coronavirus and known as it the China Virus or the Kung Flu, that made all of us unsafe. And that is what occurs. Folks get attacked in New York and San Francisco and now in Atlanta. And now six ladies are lifeless. Six Asian-American ladies, eight folks complete have been murdered and the blood is on his fingers and different politicians like him. 

POPPY HARLOW: You aren’t solely the legal professional basic there in Connecticut, you’re the son of Chinese language immigrants. You’ve got been a sufferer of hate speech like this, repeatedly, and also you made a extremely vital level not too long ago and that is that this nation has a protracted historical past of legacy and hate and racism in opposition to Asians, simply going again to the internment camps. And also you additionally level to the — this as simply being the newest spherical of scapegoating. It makes me surprise in the event you assume we have realized a lot as a rustic. 

TONG: Yeah, it’s important to surprise. And it is a historical past that folks do not actually know nicely. And that is what it means to be an Asian-American on this nation immediately. You’re largely invisible within the dialogue about racism. Persons are stunned to listen to about anti-Asian hate. They do not know the legacy of the Chinese language Exclusion Act, the beating demise of Vincent Chin and the internment of 125,000 Japanese American residents in camps on American soil once we blame them for Pearl Harbor. Yeah, it occurs to me. It occurs on a regular basis. I have been known as the Manchurian AG. My identify has been mocked. And simply yesterday somebody accused me of being an agent of the Chinese language Communist Celebration, I used to be born in Hartford, Connecticut. However I am the legal professional basic, I can take it. If it occurs to me it should occur quite a bit to on a regular basis folks who aren’t attorneys basic who haven’t got the identical safety and public profile that I do. And I fear about households throughout Connecticut and throughout this nation. 

JIM SCIUTTO: That is taking place at a time on this nation the place you’ve got a broader rise in right-wing white supremacist extremism. There was an intelligence report yesterday that identifies this as the best — nicely, reidentifies it as a result of the info has been due to this fact someday as the best home terrorism menace. As you understand, politicians have given license to those sorts of emotions in opposition to Asians, in opposition to blacks, in opposition to Latinos. I’m wondering what you’re calling to be carried out now. Calling for to be carried out now, proper? As a result of it is about language. It is also about legislation enforcement response.