Written by Urvi Sakurikar<\/p>\n
In a recent email signed by multiple members of Stanford\u2019s faculty, the recent increase in violence towards Asian-Americans, specifically the recent murder of 6 Asian-American women in Atlanta, was attributed to former President Trump\u2019s \u201c[blaming] the COVID pandemic on the Chinese\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The email, sent by Associate Dean of Students and Asian American Activities Center Director Cindy Ng, also blamed \u201cstructural and institutionalized systems created to maintain white supremacy\u201d for the violence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Ng was immediately, and rightfully, called out by Stanford College Republicans for using \u201cthe lives of those who died…to mount a cheap shot against President Trump,\u201d and was demanded to apologize.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The events that took place in Atlanta are undoubtedly tragic, as is any loss of life, but for Stanford to use such an unfortunate event to push their own never-Trump agenda is beyond insensitive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In addition, the fact that a President is being blamed for events that took place after he left office is ridiculous and dangerously illogical.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Ng\u2019s email is only one of many examples of the extreme politicization of public institutions, and how promoting a \u201cwoke\u201d agenda is being prioritized over the education of students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Ng and Stanford University have yet to comment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Written by Urvi Sakurikar In a recent email signed by multiple members of Stanford\u2019s faculty, the recent increase in violence towards Asian-Americans, specifically the recent murder of 6 Asian-American women in Atlanta, was attributed to former President Trump\u2019s \u201c[blaming] the COVID pandemic on the Chinese\u201d.\u00a0 The email, sent by Associate Dean of Students and Asian…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n