Rep. Judy Chu: Outrageous, disgusting, and absolutely racist. Why recent attacks by a Republican colleague and right-wing media won't silence me.
“great replacement” theory, and he amplified the smears against me last Thursday. Another co-founder, Neil Patel, last week penned a McCarthy-esque editorial also questioning my loyalty and asserting China is “infiltrating” America’s political system.
Other extreme voices amplified these lies. Steve Bannon, a former top Trump strategist-turned-podcast host, had a guest on his program last week who absurdly called me a Communist Chinese Party governor for Southern California and ended the interview by saying 140 members of Congress are compromised by national security threats. He even encouraged viewers to pressure Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., the chair of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, to identify and prosecute traitors.
Bannon’s program as the top peddler of false, misleading and unsubstantiated statements among political podcasts.Mr. Ng and I are easy targets for the toxic far right because of our Chinese descent. This newfangled McCarthyism combines “red scare” tactics, racism and xenophobia. The allegations — which won’t stop with Ng and me — are downright dangerous.
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