Jenn Fang was home Thursday night, not really paying attention to the third Democratic debate, when she came across a video clip circulating on Twitter showing presidential candidate Andrew Yang casually declaring onstage, "I’m Asian, so I know a lot of doctors."
For Yang, it was a lead-in to a broader response on health care. But for Fang, it was grating.
"I found this part galling, because here he is sort of obtusely reinforcing the model-minority myth and model-minority stereotypes," said Fang, who runs the blog Reappropriate, where she writes about Asian American and feminist issues.Yang, perhaps the highest-profile East […]
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