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Anti-Asian Messages at Occidental College (2022)

In late 2020, an Occidental College student sent a text message to a friend that read: “all asian people need to die.”

She followed with another text saying Asians are “responsible for the pandemic so they need to die for that too.”

A text message that 'all Asian people need to die' has Occidental College in an uproar

The text messages that sparked this incident when they were shared widely on social media on February 2 were originally sent in a private exchange between two non-Asian students in late 2020. The messages were eventually shared with others, who then reported them to College staff in November 2021.

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