Date: April 22nd, 2021 1:48 AM
Author: burgundy mind-boggling university
The channels have a substantial following of older Vietnamese people who lean conservative and have limited English proficiency. Vietnamese Americans were the only group of Asian Americans who showed a preference for Donald Trump over Joe Biden in a survey conducted by AAPI Data before the 2020 election.
Organizers say the YouTubers have capitalized on issues they know will strike a chord among conservatives in the community, like comparing the Democratic Party to communists and asserting that the party is tied to the Chinese government. Duong explained that for many Vietnamese Americans who immigrated to the United States, this hostility for China dates back to the American war in Vietnam.
She added that she’s seen photoshopped images of Secretary of State Antony Blinken bowing to Chinese government officials spread in Vietnamese Facebook groups to “make the Democrats look subservient to China.”
These fears about communism and overthrowing the government have become weaponized, Dede Tran said, remembering how she read Facebook posts from Vietnamese people who attended the insurrection at the US Capitol in January, saying they didn’t want the US to “fall into communism.”
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