Democratic Senator Keiko Hirono (D-CA) introduced the Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Act, which passed the Senate on Thursday with a high vote, with only Republican Senator Josh Hawley (R-CA) voting against it. And Republican Senator Ted Cruz’s amendment to the bill failed to pass.
Cruz’s amendment would have required that schools that discriminate against Asian Americans in their admissions policies not receive federal funding. Yet the amendment, which would have truly benefited Asian students in general, reaped unanimous opposition from Democratic senators. Thursday’s vote was 49 in favor and 48 against, with Cruz’s amendment rejected for failing to reach the required 60 votes.
As an Asian American, I will just leave this here. pic.twitter.com/s7cM9dIofV
- Aaron Ginn (@aginnt) April22,2021
In a previous interview with the Houston Chronicle, Cruz said the Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Act is not designed to prevent or punish actual crimes against Asians, but rather is advancing the obvious narrative context, which is not to acknowledge that the CCP virus originated in Wuhan and that the CCP actively lied and suppressed information about the outbreak.” Universities discriminating against Asians in their admissions policies does not fit into the Democratic narrative context, and Democrats simply will not support an amendment in this area.
U.S. Senate Passes “Anti-Asian Hate Crimes” Bill by Near Unanimous Vote Chinese Netizens Snicker
The U.S. Senate passed the “Anti-Asian Hate Crimes” bill with a nearly unanimous vote on Thursday. The bill, introduced by Senator Keiko Hirono in March, passed with 94 votes in favor and one against (Republican Senator Hawley voted against), authorizes the Department of Justice to examine racial hate crimes related to Wuhan pneumonia and helps law enforcement establish a mechanism to report cases on the Internet and public platforms; the Attorney General and the Department of Health and Human Services must also propose guidelines to mitigate racial and linguistic discrimination stemming from the outbreak.
Chinese netizens commented that Senator Cruz’s (R-CA) add-on bill, the Anti-College Admissions Discrimination Against Asians Act, did not pass. The opposition was all Democratic. Other netizens said that the Anti-Asian Hate Act is useless, it is for the black people, they don’t care. Far better to legislate anti-Asian discrimination bill, that can be shown to the community, to schools, to employers, to government departments. Some netizens also said that the Turkish Communist Party plus the American left stick finally played Asians into the political fighting tools of the Democratic Party.
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