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Min Jin Lee

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Jan 24

Today, a 67 y.o. gunman murdered 7 Chinese farm workers and injured 1 in two separate locations in Half Moon Bay, CA, which is 28 miles from San Francisco. The gunman, Zhao Chunli, was captured. This is the second mass shooting in CA within 72 hours with 18 lives lost.

nytimes.com/live/2023/01/2…

18 men and women were murdered in three days by 2 senior citizens in California. This life is all we have, and when evil and guns meet, we lose it. May we keep the victims in our hearts and minds. May the friends and family members of the victims be comforted.

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Min Jin Lee

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Jan 23

Intra-racial, intra-ethnic, or intra-religious violence—whether Asian on Asian, Latino on Latino, Black on Black, or White on White—is still violence. Despite the fears we may have of stereotypes being cast on members of our community, attention and investigation must be paid.

It would harm the victims if we buried this story because we were “ashamed” that the gunman was an Asian or Asian American man. There is a *theory* that the suspect may have been motivated by jealousy, and if that is the case, we need to investigate this tragedy accordingly.

Asians and Asian Americans have been nothing short of terrorized during the pandemic (as well as throughout American history), and adding mass shooting(s) perpetrated by members of our own community only compounds our loss of safety and our precarious sense of security.

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Min Jin Lee

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Dec 21, 2022

@JohnHMcWhorter

John McWhorter ignores the history of hatred and violence against Asian Americans and Asians in the U.S. McWhorter forgets that genocide begins with words. I remind @JohnHMcWhorter that Mr. Keon is a chancellor @PurdueNorthwest. He was punching down. nytimes.com/2022/12/20/opi…

There may be other remedies available to an institution of higher learning beyond "apology accepted" or termination. The hysterical term "cancellation" is a distracting misnomer. In a democracy, the students and faculty of Purdue Northwest may seek the appropriate remedies.

In a civil society and democracy, we can and should make and enjoy jokes. In a civil society, there are also consequences for our actions when they involve an abuse of power. Mr. Keon has more power in that school than any student, faculty member, or parent in that audience.

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Min Jin Lee

@minjinlee11

Oct 22, 2022

@nytimes

A gorgeous and important exploration of an immigrant’s sense of “cultural bereavement” by Alisha H. Gupta @nytimes “It’s not a nation or a place and it’s not just that they miss the taste of food — it’s that all those things are essentially associated with a loss of an identity.”

An immigrant, expatriate, exile, or any person experiencing the process of diaspora gains an identity but also loses one or more. Such losses are felt keenly, internalized, carried over and through. nytimes.com/2022/10/22/wel…

The term “cultural bereavement”:

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Min Jin Lee

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Aug 3, 2022

The average author in America makes about 20k per annum, which is below the federal poverty guidelines. The merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster will likely create a very very large publisher, which will likely decrease the number of buyers of manuscripts.

The words "merger," "antitrust," or "monopsony" (having one buyer) may not be exciting. However, mergers like this may cause: unemployment to publishing workers; harm to small publishers; bullying tactics toward booksellers; loss of distribution power, resource access, diversity.

Writers have always had it tough. A good 19th C. reference novel for this is LOST ILLUSIONS by Balzac. smh. Anyway, many of my favorite books come from Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster, and they are great publishers.

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Min Jin Lee

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Aug 2, 2022

By nature, a reader is independent and fierce. The folks who want to ban books are not readers; they are wannabe oppressors. The reader will win.

Throughout history, oppressive governments have censored & continue to censor. We will keep reading, writing, and continue to question and engage with authority. There is a long-standing fight against ideas. None of this is new. This is no more alarming than the worst examples.

We are paying attention and fighting fiercely in our own ways. Resist. Revolt. Circumvent. Keep reading. Readers will win.

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