{"id":21713,"date":"2022-03-12T12:46:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T20:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=21713"},"modified":"2022-03-12T12:46:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T20:46:55","slug":"sf-asians-slam-boudin-recall-funders-for-anti-asian-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/12\/sf-asians-slam-boudin-recall-funders-for-anti-asian-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Asians slam Boudin recall funders for anti-Asian posters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former Supervisor Fewer said attempting to use racism to win an election \u201charmful,\u201d \u201cignorant,\u201d and \u201cdangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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by\u00a0YUJIE ZHOU<\/a><\/strong> MARCH 10, 2022 (MissionLocal.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eighteen leaders in San Francisco\u2019s Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders community signed an open letter today denouncing the dissemination of election materials they deem anti-Asian by groups supporting the recall of District Attorney Chesa Boudin.\u00a0Among those present at a Chinatown press conference were former supervisors Sandra Lee Fewer, and Norman Yee. Photo by Yujie Zhou.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Eighteen leaders in San Francisco\u2019s Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders community signed an open letter today denouncing the dissemination of election materials they deem anti-Asian by groups supporting the recall of District Attorney Chesa Boudin.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe ask the RecallChesaBoudin.Org campaign to issue an apology to the Chinese and Asian American community,\u201d read the open letter. \u201cWe further demand the RecallChesaBoudin.Org campaign immediately cease the use and distribution of your racist poster on social media platforms, as well as traditional media venues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among those present at a Chinatown press conference were former supervisors Sandra Lee Fewer and Norman Yee. The campaign materials they cited feature a faux-Chinese communist portrait of Chesa Boudin, reminiscent of propaganda during the Cultural Revolution. Under Boudin\u2019s giant palm are depictions of tents and drug addicts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richie Greenberg, media spokesman of RecallChesaBoudin.Org campaign called the signatories \u201cfar left progressive extremists. The scourge of our city.\u201d And, Greenberg called on them to \u201ccondemn Chesa for his virtually ignoring the plight of our Asian American community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The campaign materials they cited feature a faux-Chinese communist portrait of Chesa Boudin, reminiscent of propaganda during the Cultural Revolution. Under Boudin\u2019s giant palm are depictions of tents and drug addicts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Clearly the Asian Americans who signed the open letter today disagree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Recall Campaign had exploited the use of a Chinese historical jacket to deceive San Francisco voters,\u201d said Henry Der, former California Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction. \u201cI dare the Recall Chesa Boudin campaign to produce one legitimate photo \u2014 not a photoshopped one \u2014 of Chesa Boudin wearing a Mao jacket, at any time before or during his tenure as District Attorney.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Recall Campaign feels it can walk all over the Chinese and Asian American community by resorting to red-baiting tactics to achieve its political goal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greenberg\u2019s campaign failed to collect enough signatures to recall Boudin. It is not associated with the campaign that ultimately did collect enough signatures,  Safer SF Without Boudin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julie Tang, a retired Superior Court of San Francisco judge, laid blame at the feet of the wealthy donors<\/a> listed as underwriters for the campaign material. \u201cBy and large, the majority of them are out-of-towners who feel it is okay to infest our community with racism and hatred by funding campaigns like this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funders listed on the poster are David Sacks, Daniel O\u2019Keefe, Lin Yeaser Coonan, Jessie Powell and Jeff Fluhr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tang also believes the poster is ineffective, even as a campaign strategy. \u201cWhy is the recall campaign using racist tactics, when they are trying to recall Chesa Boudin because they think he is not faithful to Chinese Americans? It\u2019s really very convoluted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another poster that originally appeared in 2020, when Connie Chan was running for District 1 Supervisor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m so outraged,\u201d said Bill Hing, Professor of Law and Migration Studies at University of San Francisco. \u201cWhen I first saw that image, it just immediately reminded me of so many of the images that led to anti-Chinese sentiment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese kinds of images invite anti-Chinese sentiment and encourage vigilante racism against our community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other speakers bemoaned offensive imagery beyond offense to Asians. \u201cPart of what that ad is trying to also evoke is dehumanizing the experiences of people living in poverty, people suffering from drug addiction,\u201d said Shaw San Liu, the Executive Director of Chinese Progressive Association Action Fund \u201cIt\u2019s trying to play to fear and deep-seated anti-Blackness that exists in our society at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fewer found the attempt to use racism to win an election \u201charmful,\u201d \u201cignorant\u201d and \u201cdangerous.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs a victim of this type of racist inflammatory rhetoric myself, first as a candidate for supervisor having to prove that I was indeed Chinese, to having posters plastered on streets, depicting Connie Chan and myself as communist loyalists,\u201d Fewer said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo those who funded these racist posters, shame on you,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Supervisor Fewer said attempting to use racism to win an election \u201charmful,\u201d \u201cignorant,\u201d and \u201cdangerous.\u201d by\u00a0YUJIE ZHOU MARCH 10, 2022 (MissionLocal.org) Eighteen leaders in San Francisco\u2019s Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders community signed an open letter today denouncing the dissemination of election materials they deem anti-Asian by groups supporting… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21717,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21713\/revisions\/21717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}