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Eric Siu examines whether Stop Asian Hate was genuine activism or marketing. He points to a viral Reddit post questioning the movement's authenticity and argues media coverage dropped when the narrative faced scrutiny.
Eric Siu examines whether Stop Asian Hate was genuine activism or marketing. He points to a viral Reddit post questioning the movement's authenticity and argues media coverage dropped when the narrative faced scrutiny.
You remember the Stop Asian Hate stuff that happened during COVID You're talking about like the Asian lady in San Francisco that got beat up and stuff like that? Yeah, like there's like random like Asian people getting beat up. The thing here is like, you know, was Stop Asian Hate actually fake marketing? So this guy who's also Asian tweeted this. He's like, I'm trending right now on Reddit in one of the largest subreddits with over 8 million users. The thousands of comments completely agree with me. So he asked this question and it's got 30,000 upvotes on Reddit. Stop Asian Hate died overnight because people started asking, wait, who's attacking Asians? And they didn't like having to answer to that. So the press coverage around Stop Asian Hate started to fade. The reach around this started to fade. All the evidence that he's showing right now is Asian people being attacked mostly by African American people, right? And again, this is not about race at the end of the day. Like, this, this guy's like revealing this right now. He's like a— he's trending on Reddit. What I'm more interested in is this was a growing movement, and the moment the narrative didn't fit anymore, they stopped covering it.
