Tag: Asian American

  • ‘Loopy Wealthy Asians’ big name Constance Wu says tried suicide after Twitter backlash in 2019

    Through AFP

    SAN FRANCISCO: US actress Constance Wu made a suicide try 3 years in the past, bruised by way of a sour social media backlash, the ‘Loopy Wealthy Asians’ big name stated on Thursday.

    Wu, 40, confronted a torrent of grievance in 2019 over remarks she made on Twitter concerning the sitcom ‘Contemporary Off the Boat,’ through which she starred in.

    After on-line shaming from customers who referred to as the remarks disparaging, and a message from every other Asian American actress who referred to as Wu “a blight at the Asian American group,” Wu determined to take her personal existence.

    “I began feeling like I did not even need to reside anymore. That I used to be a shame to AsAms, and they might be at an advantage with out me,” Wu stated in a remark posted Thursday on Twitter.

    “Fortuitously, a chum discovered me and rushed me to the ER,” the actress wrote with out giving additional main points.

    After surviving the suicide try, Wu put her profession on dangle and left social media to concentrate on her psychological well being. However she determined to go back to on-line platforms and proportion her tale to be able to release a broader dialogue about psychological well being amongst Asian American citizens.

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    — Constance Wu (@ConstanceWu) July 14, 2022

    “AsAms do not speak about psychological well being sufficient,” Wu wrote. “Whilst we are fast to rejoice illustration wins, there is a large number of avoidance across the extra uncomfortable problems inside our group.”

    Wu’s 2019 tweets adopted information that the hit ABC sitcom ‘Contemporary Off the Boat’ depicting a Taiwanese-American circle of relatives looking to construct a brand new existence in Florida have been renewed for a 6th season.

    “So disenchanted at the moment that I am actually crying. Ugh,” Wu tweeted then, including an expletive.

    Many customers chastised her for showing ungrateful for the display’s good fortune.

    Wu stated in her put up on Thursday that the ones tweets had been “careless.” She had additionally defined on the time that she was once disenchanted since the display’s renewal would put her different tasks on dangle.

    “Even if I am scared, I have determined that I owe it to the me-of-3-years-ago to be courageous and proportion my tale in order that it could assist somebody with theirs,” the actress wrote.

    SAN FRANCISCO: US actress Constance Wu made a suicide try 3 years in the past, bruised by way of a sour social media backlash, the ‘Loopy Wealthy Asians’ big name stated on Thursday.

    Wu, 40, confronted a torrent of grievance in 2019 over remarks she made on Twitter concerning the sitcom ‘Contemporary Off the Boat,’ through which she starred in.

    After on-line shaming from customers who referred to as the remarks disparaging, and a message from every other Asian American actress who referred to as Wu “a blight at the Asian American group,” Wu determined to take her personal existence.

    “I began feeling like I did not even need to reside anymore. That I used to be a shame to AsAms, and they might be at an advantage with out me,” Wu stated in a remark posted Thursday on Twitter.

    “Fortuitously, a chum discovered me and rushed me to the ER,” the actress wrote with out giving additional main points.

    After surviving the suicide try, Wu put her profession on dangle and left social media to concentrate on her psychological well being. However she determined to go back to on-line platforms and proportion her tale to be able to release a broader dialogue about psychological well being amongst Asian American citizens.

    %.twitter.com/7YScJ4Pvig
    — Constance Wu (@ConstanceWu) July 14, 2022
    “AsAms do not speak about psychological well being sufficient,” Wu wrote. “Whilst we are fast to rejoice illustration wins, there is a large number of avoidance across the extra uncomfortable problems inside our group.”

    Wu’s 2019 tweets adopted information that the hit ABC sitcom ‘Contemporary Off the Boat’ depicting a Taiwanese-American circle of relatives looking to construct a brand new existence in Florida have been renewed for a 6th season.

    “So disenchanted at the moment that I am actually crying. Ugh,” Wu tweeted then, including an expletive.

    Many customers chastised her for showing ungrateful for the display’s good fortune.

    Wu stated in her put up on Thursday that the ones tweets had been “careless.” She had additionally defined on the time that she was once disenchanted since the display’s renewal would put her different tasks on dangle.

    “Even if I am scared, I have determined that I owe it to the me-of-3-years-ago to be courageous and proportion my tale in order that it could assist somebody with theirs,” the actress wrote.

  • Justices Permit Admissions Coverage At Prestigious Top College

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Perfect Court docket has grew to become away a plea from folks to dam a brand new admissions coverage at a prestigious highschool in northern Virginia {that a} decrease courtroom has discovered discriminates towards Asian American scholars.

    The top courtroom didn’t provide an explanation for its order Monday permitting the Thomas Jefferson Top College for Science & Era to proceed the usage of its admissions coverage whilst the Fairfax County College Board appeals the decrease courtroom ruling.

    Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas stated they might have granted the request from the fogeys’ workforce, Coalition for TJ, to droop the admissions coverage.

    In February, the crowd persuaded U.S. District Pass judgement on Claude Hilton {that a} new coverage that has boosted Black and Hispanic illustration amounted to impermissible “racial balancing” on the selective faculty close to the country’s capital. It’s frequently ranked as one of the vital best possible public top faculties within the nation.

    Asian American scholars constituted greater than 70% of the scholar frame. Underneath the brand new coverage, used to confess the college’s present freshman elegance, Asian American illustration diminished to 54%. Black scholars larger from 1% to 7% and Hispanic illustration larger from 3% to 11%.

    Hilton had ordered the brand new coverage suspended, however the federal appeals courtroom in Richmond, Virginia, stated it might be used whilst the case continues to play out within the courts.