{"id":1004761,"date":"2023-02-24T19:54:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T19:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=8f4c7ab4aba7d54470c88601aa298206"},"modified":"2023-02-24T19:54:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T19:54:59","slug":"gop-lawmaker-uses-racist-trope-calls-chinese-american-colleague-disloyal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/24\/gop-lawmaker-uses-racist-trope-calls-chinese-american-colleague-disloyal\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Lawmaker Uses Racist Trope, Calls Chinese American Colleague Disloyal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A far right Republican is being called out for suggesting the first Chinese American lawmaker in the House of Representatives is disloyal to the United States. Last week, Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas) suggested an individual named Dominic Ng, who was appointed as the U.S. member of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Advisory Council last year, harbored anti-U.S.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/gop-lawmaker-uses-racist-trope-calls-chinese-american-colleague-disloyal\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/gop-lawmaker-uses-racist-trope-calls-chinese-american-colleague-disloyal\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several members of Congress condemned the lawmaker&#8217;s racist words, describing them as &#8220;disgusting&#8221; and &#8220;dangerous.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8937,28186,3545,7260,57818,57824,4,784],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004762,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004761\/revisions\/1004762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}