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Podcast: Escape From Plan A
Episode: Ep. 179 (Preview): Asian Bluechecks Confessing "Anti-Blackness In The Asian Community"
Description: Tou Thao is one of the four cops involved in the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The Asian American Twitterati (aka 'Bluechecks', a reference to the check mark indicating their special verified status on Twitter) quickly offered their tweets instructing Asian Americans to "recognize the anti-Blackness in the Asian community." Are such admonitions -- usually by the privileged -- real calls for a cultural moment of re-examination, or cynical virtue signalling for self-preservation in a difficult racial moment?
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