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A professional video game player South Korean described the "indescribable" racism that he has suffered since he moved to Texas, in a clip that has gone viral on social networks raising numerous condemnation reactions.
Violence against Asians has intensified in the United States since last year, something that activists relate to the rhetoric of former president Donald Trump, especially to his repeated coronavirus qualification as the "Chinese virus".
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Lee Eui-Seoek, who plays the Overwatch video game for the Dallas Fuel team under the name of Fearless, told during a round of questions asked on the Twitch platform that this is the first time he suffers racism of this type.
"Being Asian here is scary," said the 22 -year -old."People try to start fighting with us...There are even people on us.Deliberately cough over us.They (insult us) while laughing "."Racism is not a joke here," he added.
A transmission clip was published on Tuesday on Twitter, with English subtitles, by Jade "Swingchip" Kim, a Korean player and manager of the Florida Mayhem team who said he had also been subject to racism.
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— Zunjar Sabale Mon Mar 11 08:25:58 +0000 2019
Kim pointed to The Washington Post that Lee's comments were like "a whip"."With everything that is happening lately in the United States, I couldn't miss this too, so I translated the clip and published it," he explained.The subtitling clip had registered more than 326.000 views until Thursday.
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Hate crimes against Asians tripled virtuallyof hate and extremism.
According to Lee, the racist attacks he suffered in Dallas "occurred almost daily" and was "scary" and "serious".People approached him in the street and shouted racist insults, he said, adding that three years ago, when he was based on Los Angeles, he could "live) peacefully in the United States".
"I don't think we had problems there".Lee's team is owned by Envy Gaming, whose founder Mark Rufail condemned attacks and "unjustified hatred", promising to guarantee the safety of his players.
Source: AFP.
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