We must stop this hateful rhetoric about wearing masks
CNN
Kuan-lin F. Liu writes that Tucker Carlson calling mask wearers "zealots and neurotics" is a precarious label that will cause anyone who wears them to be targets in the future -- and no one more than the Asian Americans who have long worn masks and facial coverings for various reasons.
Carlson's framing -- that the only people who voluntarily wear masks are "zealots and neurotics" -- puts a precarious label and thus a target on anyone who chooses to wear one either now or in the future. This could prove dangerous to members of the Asian and Asian American communities who, even before Covid, have been used to wearing masks for different reasons, and could potentially subject them to the same harassment and attacks they faced at the beginning of the pandemic.More Related News