Others tried to get her fired from her internship, and she was kicked off Twitter after they mass-reported her. ( Lu is an epithet often used on the subreddit to insult Asian women.) They schemed about how to “ cancel” her, encouraging one another to contact Yale in an attempt to get her expelled. “She’s just another white worshipping Lu we always have to take them down She wants white men to try to kick our asses, but slap her ass,” one user wrote.
“I had to limit my comments on Instagram because people would comment, ‘Kill yourself,’ or ‘I’m going to rape you.’ ” Members of r/aznidentity began looking into her previous romantic relationships-including ones she’d had in high school-and denigrated her on the subreddit for having dated a white person. “The focus started to be on me and my personal life,” she told me recently. But it wasn’t until January, when Huang began posting on TikTok about anti-Black racism, that the real harassment began.Īfter Huang posted a video about Asian celebrities appropriating Black culture, she began receiving hundreds of sexist and violent messages through email and social media. First there were threads mocking Huang on r/aznidentity, a subreddit with more than 44,000 members that is the unofficial hub of Men’s Rights Asians.
