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Michael Zhang is a former FOIA intern for the Daily Dot. He&#8217;s in his third year at the University of Texas at Austin where he serves as an officer of UT’s Asian American Journalists Association and has written for the Daily Texan.

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A man allegedly called the Hugh Crew, a K-Pop dance group, communists.

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In a video posted on Reddit, a white man tells an Asian man to "go eat some fucking rice."

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Asian TikToker calls out white photographers who take ‘exploitative’ pictures of residents in Chinatown

A woman allegedly punched a six year old Korean child in the neck while yelling anti-Asian slurs.

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‘B*tch come back!’: Video shows mom calling out woman for allegedly punching 6-year-old

Jennifer Xia is a former editorial intern for the Daily Dot and journalism student at the University of Texas at Austin. She has interned previously at Austin Monthly and Austin Woman magazines.

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