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Who are the right wing first generation Chinese immigrants?

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18 min readMay 1, 2021

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Preface

On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an Africa American in Minneapolis, was arrested by the police, after a convenience store employee called 911 and reported the police that he had used a counterfeit $20 bill to buy cigarettes. Police officer, Derek Chauvin kneed on Mr. Floyd’s neck for 8 mintues and 46 seconds. Floyd showed no signs of life at the time and was pronounced dead an hour later after being taken to the hospital. The video shows Floyd suffering and screaming “I can’t breathe” at least 20 times during the neck crush and helplessly shouting “Mom, I love you, tell my kids I love them, I’m dying”.

After the video of Floyd’s public abuse shot by a passerby was released online, it sparked great public outrage, with people condemning the police for using excessive force and taking black lives unseriously. Combined with the Black Lives Matter movement which began in 2014, it initiated protests in more than 2,000 cities across the United States and spread around the world, with people from dozens of countries waking to the streets in solidarity with the American civil rights movement to protest the injustice of institutional oppression.

In sharp contrast to this scenario, on Chinese social media, the vast overseas Chinese community is not only indifferent to the movement of various races around the world to protest against institutional injustices, but also quotes the remarks of the black right-winger Candance Owens, saying that Floyd is just a repeat…

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