AAPI Solidarity: Don't let media outlets get away with reinforcing violent, irresponsible narratives!

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    AAPI Solidarity: Don't let media outlets get away with reinforcing violent, irresponsible narratives!

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    Many media outlets are not reporting the shootings in Atlanta as what they are: targeted, racist, anti-Asian violence. Instead, media outlets are playing into the harmful narrative that the white man who killed eight people, six of whom were Asian women, was simply having "a really bad day." This is completely unacceptable. 

    Much like we would not allow media outlets to escape accountability for irresponsibly reporting on racially-motivated violence towards Black people, we cannot allow them to get away with reporting this violence on AAPI women as the random result of a white man’s “really bad day.” Join us and our AAPI allies in calling on journalists and media report responsibly on these racially-motivated murders. 

    When you sign our petition, we will join our AAPI allies in the fight to: 

    1. Ensure news coverage does not fuel the hypersexualization of Asian women, which has been linked to violence and discrimination;
    2. Ensure newsrooms report on these murders within the context of the current rise in attacks against Asian Americans;
    3. Ensure media outlets understand and discuss the longstanding history and invisibility of anti-Asian racism; 
    4. Demand media outlets use AAPI experts as their sources; and
    5. Demand media outlets empower AAPI journalists and other AAPI newsroom workers. 

    Below is the petition we will send to media outlets.

    Here is the Petition:

    Media outlets: 

    It is your job as our sources for information to ensure that your reports are responsible. But that is not what's happening in many reports of the racist, anti-Asian shootings in Atlanta. When you do not report responsibly, with context and nuance, you contribute to the dehumanization of AAPI people and help to reinforce a white supremacist society that frequently lets slide the misogyny, sexualization, fetishization, and violence that is perpetrated against the Black, Brown, and AAPI women who work at massage parlors and in other similar lines of work. 

    We can't afford to have media outlets that do not report responsibly. It is just too dangerous. We demand that you report responsibly on racially-motivated violence.