Open Letter to the Biden Campaign on “Unprepared”
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Media Contacts:
Grace Pai, Asian American Midwest Progressives // gpai@aamprogressives.org, (310) 433–1107
Michelle Liang, NAKASEC Action Fund // michelle@nakasecactionfund.org, (925) 286–7948
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We are community leaders, educators, writers, and artists who are profoundly disappointed and concerned by the Biden campaign’s recent “Unprepared” ad, and its strategy to attack Trump on the grounds that he “rolled over for the Chinese.”
We share the Biden campaign’s goal of defeating Trump in November. And we acknowledge Vice President Biden’s leadership in condemning racism against AAPIs. We are concerned, though, that “Unprepared” feeds into one of the right’s core narrative strategies, which is to identify COVID-19 with China. Trump’s performance confronting COVID-19 will be a decisive factor in this year’s election, and given his failures, his only hope of reelection is to shift blame onto a scapegoat: China. By pushing a message that attributes Trump’s failures to his relationship with China, the Biden campaign reinforces Trump’s own core narrative. This may well backfire.
Ultimately, “Unprepared” plays to rather than challenges the right-wing nationalist movement and its worldview. We highlight a number of threats that emerge from this.
The threat of anti-Asian racism. When hateful rhetoric goes unchallenged, it leads to racism and violence against people of color. Black, Latinx, and indigenous communities have lived through these realities, and Asian Americans are no exception. The right’s attempt to blame China for the COVID-19 crisis in the U.S. has led to a sharp increase in racist harassment and assault of people of Chinese descent and others perceived to be of Chinese descent. One effort, Stop AAPI Hate, has recorded nearly 1500 such incidents in the past month. People have been insulted, spat on, beaten, and injured; in one incident a man attempted to murder a family, stabbing children aged 2 and 7, allegedly because he believed they were spreading COVID-19. The “Unprepared” ad may make this worse.
The Biden campaign’s “Unprepared” ad exacerbates anti-Asian racism in many ways, none clearer than when it implies that the country would have been saved by a stricter travel ban on China. This is misinformation that reinforces Trump’s racist and harmful efforts to identify the disease with China and Chinese people. Public health experts agree that travel bans are a poor tool for containing pandemics, and the outbreak in New York, the worst in the country, mostly came via travel from Europe, not China. The containment and mitigation strategies we most needed to see from the Trump administration have little to do with confronting China. The Biden campaign should criticize Trump’s catastrophic mishandling of COVID-19, but this should be grounded in real public health solutions to COVID-19, not racist misinformation.
The threat to the future of the Democratic Party. Playing to right-wing nationalism and fanning anti-China sentiment will also come at a cost at the ballot box. It will alienate not just Asian American voters, but also a broader population of progressive and antiracist voters, including younger voters. This jeopardizes the future of the Democratic Party, which lies in building a multiracial progressive coalition and bringing younger voters into the fold. The Biden campaign has demonstrated its understanding of this by reaching out to Senator Sanders and his base, and Vice President Biden himself has spoken out strongly against Trump’s xenophobia and racism, but the anti-China messaging strategy exemplified by “Unprepared” undermines those efforts. This is not just cynical, it is also short-sighted.
The threat to international cooperation and public health. Tensions between the U.S. and China have damaged efforts to confront COVID-19 by undermining urgently needed global cooperation around the provision of medical supplies as well as research into treatment and a vaccine. While many of us have been critical of the Chinese government and its initial response to the COVID-19 outbreak, it is clear that U.S.-China cooperation is an urgent and overriding priority until the pandemic is under control. State and local governments, hospitals, and civil society organizations across the country are building life-saving links to China and elsewhere in order to procure medical supplies and other resources, and the federal government has threatened these connections rather than supported them. This has made the country as a whole less safe. The Biden campaign should champion the need for international cooperation — particularly strengthening and supporting the World Health Organization — without undermining it by fueling greater hostility towards China.
Our demands: The country’s greatest priority at this moment is to beat the COVID-19 crisis, and this requires embracing principles of antiracist solidarity and international cooperation. The Biden campaign can and should beat Trump and the GOP with a message centered on our real public health needs and the progressive values that are required to meet those needs. The “Unprepared” ad must be taken down, and all campaign messaging that fuels anti-Asian racism and China-bashing must end. We refuse to allow the Biden campaign to sacrifice our dignity in the name of political expediency.
Sincerely,
Authors:
Michelle Chen, Journalist
Wei Chen, Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance (Philadelphia, PA)
Calvin Cheung-Miaw, PhD student, Stanford University
Tobita Chow, Director, Justice is Global
Michelle Liang, NAKASEC Action Fund
Timmy Lu, Executive Director, AAPIs For Civic Empowerment
Laura Misumi, Executive Director, Michigan Asian American Progressives
Grace Pai, Director of Movement Politics, Asian American Midwest Progressives (Chicago, IL)
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Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance — Illinois (APALA-IL)
Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO)
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Jillian Johnson, Durham, NC Mayor Pro Tempore
Ron Kim, New York State Assemblyman, District 60
Eric Mar, former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Gordon Mar, member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
María Poblet, Commissioner, Berkeley Rent Board
Jean Quan, former Mayor of Oakland, CA
Rigel Robinson, Berkeley, CA City Council
Dai Thao, St. Paul, MN Councilmember
Sheng Thao, Oakland, CA Councilmember
Marny Xiong, Chair, St. Paul, MN Public Schools Board of Education
Nelsie Yang, St. Paul, MN Councilmember
Norman Yee, President, San Francisco Board of Supervisors
S.B. Woo, Former Lieutenant Governor of Delaware; President, 80–20 Educational Foundation
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Neil Abercrombie, Former Governor of Hawaii
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Jerry Chen, Founder, Chinese American Culture Society
Karen Chen, Executive Director, Chinese Progressive Association (Boston, MA)
Ralph Cheng, Palo Alto, CA
Lian Cheun, Director, People Power Action
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Nicolas Daily, Interim Dean of Equity and Inclusion, Upland, CA
Henry Der, Friends for Educational Opportunities in Chinatown
Brian Farrell, retired Santa Rosa City attorney, Vallejo, CA
Alfred Foung, Founding President, LA 80–20 PAC
Buck Gee, Committee of 100
Shagufta Hakeem, Researcher, Duke University
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James Hsue, Chinese Americans for Peace
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Richard Katsuda, Co-chair, Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress
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Kathy Masaoka, Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress
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Tram Nguyen, Co-Executive Director, New Virginia Majority
John Ota, Tsuru for Solidarity
Simon Pang, US Sino Friendship Association
Jeannie Park, Board Co-Chair, Donors of Color Network
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Carl Takei, Attorney, ACLU
Julie Tang, Retired Judge, co-chair, “Comfort Women” Justice Coaltion
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Alex T. Tom, Executive Director, Center for Empowered Politics
Maeley Tom, Co-Founder, Association of Asian American Investment Manager
Jean-Huy Tran, President, San Diego AAPI Democratic Club
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Alix Webb, Executive Director, Asian Americans United
Michael Williams, Co-Founder, Coalition for a Diverse Harvard
Ann Wong, Board Co-Chair, Chinese Progressive Association (Boston, MA)
Helena Wong, Director, Seeding Change
Dennis Wu, Chair, APAPA San Francisco Chapter
Lisa Xu, Union Organizer, UAW Local 5118
Alvina Yeh, Executive Director, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
Sophia Yen, Physician and CEO
Kai Zheng, Executive Director, NYS Assembly Asian Pacific American Task Force
Karla Zombro, Vice President of Field Strategy, California Calls
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Michael Wong, Vice President, Veterans for Peace, San Francisco Chapter 69
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Russell Jeung, Chair, Asian American Studies, San Francisco State University
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Zachary Levenson, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UNCG
Scarlett Lin Gomez, Professor, UCSF
Andrew Liu, Assistant Professor, Villanova University
Joe Lockard, Associate Professor, Arizona State University
Michael Lou, Faculty, Milton Academy
Andrea Louie, Professor of Anthropology, Interim Co-Director of Asian Pacific American Studies Program, Michigan State University
Lisa Lowe, Professor of American Studies, Yale UniversityCynthia Mach, Educator, San Francisco, CA
Valerie Matsumoto, Professor, UCLA
Anne McKnight, Associate Professor, UC Riverside
Jenny Medina, Professor of East Asian Studies, Brooklyn, NY
Philip Merrick, English Teacher, Baltimore, MD
Cynthia Ng, Educator, Alameda, CA
Mae Ngai, Lung Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, Columbia University
Duy Nguyen, Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University
T. Nguyen-Vo, Professor, UCLA
Rachel Esplin Odell, International Security Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Christina Ong, Doctoral Candidate, University of Pittsburgh
A. Naomi Paik, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, University of Illinois
David Palumbo-Liu, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor, Stanford University
Ben Parker, Assistant Professor, Brown University
Anna Pegler-Gordon, Professor, Michigan State University
OiYan Poon, Associate Professor of Higher Education, Colorado State University
Takeo Rivera, Professor, Boston University
Poulomi Saha, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
Sigrid Schmalzer, Professor of Chinese History, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Matt Shutzer, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard
Mark Haskell Smith, Associate Professor, UC Riverside
Paul Spickard, Distinguished Professor of History, UC Santa Barbara
Masao Suzuki, Professor of Economics, Skyline College
Renee Tajima-Peña, filmmaker and professor, UCLA
Jack Tchen, Professor, Rutgers University
Evelyn Teng, Professor Emerita, USC
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Michael G. Vann, Professor of History, California State University Sacramento
Naoko Wake, Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University
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Devra Weber, Professor Emerita, UCLA
Isabella Weber, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Stephen Wertheim, Research Scholar, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University
Gabriel Winant, Assistant Professor of History, University of Chicago
Janelle Wong, Professor, University of Maryland
Kent Wong, director, UCLA Labor Center
Vivian Wu Wong, Teacher, Milton Academy Asian Society
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Timothy Yang, Professor, Athens, GA
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Genevieve Yue, Assistant Professor, The New School
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Brian Hu, artistic director, Pacific Arts Movement
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Naomi Schneider, editor
Leon Sun, artist and writer
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