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Jeff Yang 🫶
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Dec 8, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
And after massive protests, Xi suddenly rolls back Zero Covid policy with the standard “oh the virus has evolved/our policies have worked” stuff that govs everywhere have done. What are the “Xi can’t possibly pivot or lose face!” maximalists thinking now?
nytimes.com/2022/12/08/wor… I would’ve thought it would come with a massive vax push but Xi clearly thinks he has power firmly enough in hand that he can shake off whimsically ending a despised public health mandate—and the millions of deaths that will likely follow
Nov 13, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
A gift of @ewarren’s Op-Ed in the @nytimes, in which she gives smart, sound, detailed advice on what Dems should do now that we’ve held the Senate. Sharp analysis on how progressive ideas won voters over, and going further will win more, per her brand.
nytimes.com/2022/11/12/opi… Curious what part of

—reverse Trump tax giveaways to wealthy
—cut housing and child care costs
—end gerrymandering
—protect abortion rights as kitchen table issue not ideologically
—focus on economic well-being of families
—embrace populist economic policies

you disagree with.
Nov 13, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
When the driver of the car decides to play chicken with a police cruiser It’s a good thing @SenMarkey has no ability to impact my newly acquired social media busi— whoops!

Well at least my satellite broadband startup is oka— dammit

Oh well, I’ve still got my thriving electric transportation company— D’OH ImageImage
Nov 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
If anyone, ANYONE doubted that Trump's 2024 campaign (which is surely coming, now more than ever) was going to lean hard into China-bashing and inflaming anti-Asian xenophobia, stop doubting.

Also, Trump is a racist, that much is plain. Kind of makes me wonder how newly re-elected Republican congressmember @YoungKimCA feels about her soon-to-rise-again racist overlord ImageImage
Oct 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Lara Logan was CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent from 2006–2018 I continue to feel sorry for her assault but questions about her journalistic ethics began well before that and then erupted with her Benghazi coverage.

But now who knows how deep Qanon has its claws into her.
Jun 18, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Pence is no hero for not criming Trump into office, just like Romney and six other GOP senators are no heroes for voting to impeach him and Liz Cheney is no hero for helping investigate a deadly insurrection

But the bar is just so low for Republicans now—we celebrate Team Normal The truth is of course that the Republican Party will never be normal again. When no more than a token handful of its members are even willing to *investigate* a massive existential crime against democracy, it’s clear it is beyond hope. And this just the most egregious evidence.
May 2, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Uhhhh it’s not because of “the multiverse” guys
May 2, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Shocked*

*not shocked Sidenote: I heard reports of bad behavior by an Asian American star of a currently shooting project and thought to myself, I really hope we use some of the lessons about grace, humility and generosity that we’ve undoubtedly been taught by our families as our fortunes rise.
Apr 23, 2022 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
“Demos are 46% white, **21% Asian**, 17% Hispanic/Latino, 12% Black.”

Case study for indies: @A24 did it right with a measured rollout and active engagement of Asian Americans. Over half of viewers of #EverythingEverywhere @allatoncemovie are nonwhite.

deadline.com/2022/04/everyt… Get your core community to feel seen and actively targeted. Make your top line talent available for direct engagement with tastemakers.

CRAZY RICH ASIANS did it at the studio level.
SHANG CHI too.

But #EverythingEverywhere’s whole program has *leaned into* it.
Jan 26, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
It’s really shocking that @nytimes not only ran this, but is showcasing it on multiple platforms, including flagship podcast The Daily. @DLeonhardt commissioned a public opinion poll about Covid and is using it to bothsides response to the pandemic. The results are egregious. 1/ Leonhardt says Democrats want expensive continuing protections against Covid, even though its risk may be diminishing. Meanwhile, Republicans broadly refuse to get vaccinated and want everything to reopen with no restrictions. His framing: both sides are equally misguided. 2/
Jan 26, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This literally never happened. What “certain activist types” were doing was calling out racist language, rhetoric and slurs aimed at Chinese (and impacting other Asians) that was getting us harassed in public, spat and coughed on and quite quickly thereafter physically attacked. The same Asian Americans who were telling people to stop with the racist Kung Flu and bat eating jokes were ALSO telling you to fucking wear masks and take this disease really seriously because with SARS and bird flu, we had seen this movie already and it sucked
Jan 24, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is the way ImageImage Are you even Asian if you don’t make little hobbit tubes out of your 3/4 empty toothpastes and lotions
Jan 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
In April, Chinese immigrant Yao Pan Ma was beaten into a coma, allegedly because he’d been mistaken for one of two men, “Korean and Japanese,” who the attacker said had robbed him.

The assault is now a murder. Mr. Ma died last week on New Year’s Eve.
nytimes.com/2022/01/08/nyr… Another reminder, if Vincent Chin wasn’t enough, that “All Look Same” is a major part of anti-Asian violence.
Jan 7, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Kagan is right. The chart you posted shows death rate, not total deaths. And Covid has now killed more Americans than any pandemic in history.

Also: There was no vaccine for Spanish flu. If we didn’t have one for Covid, the numbers would be much higher.
statnews.com/2021/09/20/cov… You realize that in 1918, more Americans also died from…literally everything, right?

Infant mortality in the year prior to the Spanish flu was 100/100,000. In 2018 it was 5.7/100,1000.

That’s a 17.5x rate of mortality for just “being born.”
Jan 3, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
@bchesky Not being snarky here: Please launch an initiative to help the immense number of people who’ve been unhoused due to market conditions that AirBnB helped create, and that Covid turned into a crisis.

I don’t know what it looks like. Funding shelter operations? Building tiny homes? @bchesky A 2017 Zillow study showed that homelessness rises in cities where rents exceed a third of the average income, and each median rent increase of $100 increases homelessness by anywhere from 6% to 32%.
zillow.com/research/homel…
Dec 31, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Bandy Lee said Donald Trump and Alan Dershowitz showed signs of mental aberration. Dershowitz called her remarks unethical “distance diagnosis”—and Yale fired her. Lee’s peers see this as a dire attack on speech. So where are the anti-cancel culturistas?
nymag.com/intelligencer/… Prominent anti-“cancel culture” advocate @Yascha_Mounk did chime in early on: He wrote a lengthy piece for Slate *criticizing* @BandyXLee1. Since Dershowitz’s email that led to her firing, I’ve seen nothing in his feed or public writings defending her academic right to speech. Image
Nov 18, 2021 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Asian Film Twitter needs a non-snipey discussion about Hollywood remakes of Asian cinema.

My possibly unpopular opinion: Remakes are great when they are significantly different from the original—while respecting and paying homage to their antecedent—and we should encourage them. There’s little merit in being wedded to canon. That’s the attitude fueling the toxic fandoms that infest all too many franchises.

Meanwhile Asian creators constantly mine Hollywood for inspiration (even if their remakes aren’t official)

Lee Sang-il remake of “Unforgiven” 👇
Nov 17, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
HOLY CRAP THIS IS THE HULK MOVIE I NEVER KNEW I ALWAYS WANTED #TurningRed, a movie that finally gets to the heart of Asian American double consciousness: Passive and aggressive
Nov 15, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Primetime speaking slot at 2024 Republican convention Six figure book deal from Regnery Publishing
Sep 18, 2021 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
So I’ve alluded to what’s been going on with my family and people have reached out with concern. I figured I should just explain.

My sister, who’s an urgent care doc and sees multiple (mostly unvaxxed) covid cases a day, got breakthrough covid.

Then my vaxxed parents got it. They got Moderna early—January and February. They’re in their 80s with stacked risk factors. Because my sister was in quar I flew out to NY to help out my parents. But the day before I flew my dad had a fall, was taken to the ER on precaution—and promptly put in covid isolation.
Sep 16, 2021 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
Hey @ScottMendelson, I appreciate what you’re trying to say but your analysis is exactly wrong, and unfortunately, in line with Hollywood’s overriding views on inclusion: That the “limits of diversity” are it only “works” when people “already want to see” a film. “Diversity” isn’t a magical lure to drag people into theaters.

Inclusive development and casting allows you to tell different, more meaningful, expansive AND specific stories. It allows you to market films to different audiences. And it makes old stories feel new again.