{"id":8585,"date":"2022-04-13T16:29:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T23:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=8585"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:35:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T23:35:02","slug":"democrat-candidate-mocks-korean-american-congresswomans-accent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=8585","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Candidate Mocks Korean-American Congresswoman&#8217;s Accent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by T. Logan Dayne<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As crime and hate targeted against Asian-Americans increased in the aftermath of COVID-19, one Democrat Candidate from California, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pfaxFWOdigE&amp;t=1s\">Jay Chen, took time mock his opponent\u2019s accent<\/a> saying that \u201cYou kind of need an interpreter to figure out exactly what she\u2019s saying\u201d, adding that \u201cThe more she speaks, the better for us,\u201d as his crowd laughed at his mockery. He has even gone as far to say that she is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=csY4NPgAdUI&amp;t=3s\">\u201cincoherent\u201d in previous statements<\/a> while also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KhK0yOUkB3w&amp;t=3s\">implying she is incapable of thinking for herself<\/a>. Many are pointing out the hypocrisy that this kind of racist and misogynistic behavior is not only inappropriate for a congressional candidate but the exact thing the campaign to Stop Asian Hate was aimed against. The Stop Asian Hate movement is a move to stop the crisis of anit-Asain hate and violence, a prominent movement in California that has an extensive history of Asian-American history. The tenets of this movement seem to have been missed by Chen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rep. Michelle Steel (R-Calif.) whom Jay Chen mocked, is a first-generation Korean American who speaks English as a third language. A spokesperson for Steel stated, \u201cAmerica is a country built on immigrants,\u201d and condemned Jay Chen\u2019s statements as \u201cracist\u2026hav[ing] absolutely no place in our community. Chen owes everyone an explanation, particularly following recent reports he continues backing the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s Confucius institutes in our educational system.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/meet-the-ca-dem-who-invited-the-ccp-into-his-local-classrooms\/\">Jay Chen has led the charge to bring the communist program to the classroom<\/a>. Even being <a href=\"https:\/\/2017-2021.state.gov\/designation-of-the-confucius-institute-u-s-center-as-a-foreign-mission-of-the-prc\/index.html\">designated by the state department as a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda arm<\/a> aimed to advance \u201cBeijing\u2019s global propaganda and malign influence campaign.\u201d CCP officials have recognized the Confucius institute programs as \u201can important part of China\u2019s overseas propaganda setup.\u201d Despite Chen\u2019s allegiance to foreign propaganda programs, he is still supported and endorsed by several Democrats including progressives such as Rep. Adam Schiff and Rep. Ted Lieu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Photo Cred: Michelle Steel for Congress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by T. Logan Dayne As crime and hate targeted against Asian-Americans increased in the aftermath of COVID-19, one Democrat Candidate from California, Jay Chen, took time mock his opponent\u2019s accent saying that \u201cYou kind of need an interpreter to figure out exactly what she\u2019s saying\u201d, adding that \u201cThe more she speaks, the better for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Democrat Candidate Mocks Korean-American Congresswoman&#039;s Accent - San Diego News Desk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=8585\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Democrat Candidate Mocks Korean-American Congresswoman&#039;s Accent - San Diego News Desk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Written by T. 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