Texas lawmakers of both parties are condemning a Republican House candidate, who suggested the state should refuse Chinese students admission to its public universities.
” that “CCP members should not have access to our schools,” in reference to the Chinese Communist Party., a Democrat whose parents came to the United States as Chinese students, released a statement Friday, demanding an apology from Luther. He wrote that Asian Americans have called for officials to stop “stoking the flames” of anti-Asian hate for the past two years during the pandemic.
“To casually conflate all Chinese students in America with actual registered members of the ruling party in the People’s Republic of China is not only ignorance of extreme nature, it is also the type of rhetoric that drives anti-Asian hate crimes,” he said in a statement. In spite of ongoing calls for solidarity against anti-Asian hate, Luther’s support for a discriminatory ban isn’t uncommon. A
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