Republican congresswomen revoke endorsements of Texas GOP candidate after 'hurtful and untrue'...

[DonViejo]

Republican congresswomen revoke endorsements of Texas GOP candidate after 'hurtful and untrue' comments about Chinese immigrants

By Caroline Kelly and Devan Cole, CNN

Updated 8:43 PM ET, Fri April 2, 2021

(CNN)Two Republican congresswomen are revoking their endorsements of Texas GOP congressional candidate Sery Kim after she said that she didn't want potential Chinese immigrants in the United States.

"As the first Korean American Republican women to serve in Congress, we want to empower and lift up fellow members of the (Asian American and Pacific Islander) community who want to serve their communities," California Reps. Young Kim and Michelle Steel said in a statement. "We talked with Sery Kim yesterday about her hurtful and untrue comments about Chinese immigrants, and made clear that her comments were unacceptable."

During a candidate forum on Wednesday hosted by two Republican groups in Texas' 6th Congressional District, Kim responded to a question about the US' immigration crisis by saying "I don't want them here at all," referring to potential Chinese immigrants.

"They steal our intellectual property, they give us coronavirus, they don't hold themselves accountable," she continued, adding that, "I can say that because I'm Korean."

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[jimfields33]

1. When I was stationed in Korea, I heard that Japanese, Chinese, and koreans

aren’t exactly fond of each other. Still this is the United States and talk like this is not acceptable.

[CaptainTruth]

6. True. I travelled a lot through Asia for business and saw it myself.

Those countries did some terrible, brutal things to each other in various wars & they haven't forgotten it.

[AZLD4Candidate]

10. I speak both Korean and Chinese

Agree. Lived in both countries. And in Malaysia as well, where the 24%, where they speak a type of Guangdong Hua.

[bullwinkle428]

2. She tried to distance herself from the original comments by saying she meant the

ruling Communist party rather than the Chinese people themselves, but you just have to read the words to realize she's full of shit.

Oh, did I forget to mention she worked in the Chump administration?

[AZLD4Candidate]

11. Then she should have said that. She didn't. Own it.

Can't put the fart back in the elephant.

I'm running for state office here in Arizona. I know already, being a neophyte, that everything I say has to be measured by the letter.

This person failed, exposed herself, and needs to drop out.

[dalton99a]

3. Allen West will make her honorary vice chair of the Texas Republican Party

"Republicans are not racist. Look at ME"

[Dan]

4. There is no hate, like racial hate.

[AZLD4Candidate]

9. She's Korean. . .not Chinese. BIG DIFFERENCE and from living in both countries in my life.

And in Malaysia, which is 24% Chinese, I can verify that from experience.

This person is adding to the stereotype that all Asians are the same.

I brought my wife here on vacation a few times on her B-visa and when we spoke Mandarin to each other on the street, she got very upset when someone told us that "Japanese is a very pretty language."

I had to tell her, in Mandarin, that ignorance is everywhere.

[AZLD4Candidate]

5. 1.4 Billion people in China. . .32 million in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao

And all of them are this according to Ms. Kim?

I guess my wife, my in-laws, all my friends on the mainland, and the 95% of the Chinese population that aren't in "The Party" are what she says?

Amazing how bigotry is becoming accepted more and more as the Republican political platform. Why not just reinstate the Chinese Exclusion Act that California forced upon the country in the 1880s, when the Chinese population in California went from one in every eight to one in every seven in ten years time.

BTW, you, Ms. Kim, are Korean, another country in which I have lived. Are you adding to the stereotype that "Asian" is one big monolith?

You are a bigot and xenophobe.

[SergeStorms]

7. Kim could be describing...

every republican in Congress. "They steal our intellectual property, they give us coronavirus, they don't hold themselves accountable". If that doesn't perfectly describe every republican in Congress, I don't know what would.

[LiberalLovinLug]

8. Anyone else who never knows what position a Republican will take anymore?

When I saw the headline. I didn't know if it was Republicans censuring Republicans for daring to criticize their Dear Orange Leader, or, like this, trying to squeeze out of an association with a colleague who got caught exposing their racism.

And yes, there is bigotry even between different Asian countries.

[dalton99a]

12. "Elect me because I hate the Chinese and I have a 3.98 GPA"