Michael Moore

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Michael Moore @MMFlint

A witness heard the killer telling Chin and his Asian-American friend that they "were the reason we're all getting laid off" - a reference to the scapegoating of the Japanese for the massive layoffs in the U.S. auto industry in the '80's (again, Chin was Chinese-American) ... /2 https://t.co/7UkShUbrd2 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 24, 2021

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Michael Moore @MMFlint

In 1982, a white Chrysler autoworker brutally beat a Chinese-American man named Vincent Chin to death with a baseball bat in Detroit. He served no jail time and paid a $3780 fine. This outrage sparked a rise in Asian-American civil rights advocacy and consciousness ... /1 https://t.co/7qWsPkopfh — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 24, 2021

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Michael Moore @MMFlint

In 1987, I interviewed Vincent Chin's killer for two hours at his home for a piece I wrote in the Detroit Free Press Magazine. He was triumphant about his legal victories. But, as I wrote, he "suffered from the white-guy-as-victim syndrome." .../3 https://t.co/rACfc292BP https://t.co/4WVGq7GrrK — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 24, 2021