What does 'Stop Asian Hate' mean? 

Sorry it's been so long since I've posted. This pandemic has been like kryptonite to my motivation. I'm going to start posting more Hug Life Vlogs regularly. Hopefully you're all doing well! Much love & Hugs! -Ken

The one thing though that I don't want people to feel like they need to do, is apologize on behalf of there race. On a twitter post, I had a presumably white individual apologize for something they did not do. I don't want to see apologies from anyone except for the people who actually do the stuff or say the stuff. Progression and change is more important than apologizing. Nobody needs to apologize on behalf of their race.

I’m from the uk and I’ve got some wonderful asian friends.I am truly in support for my fellow asian friends

kindness is the root to mutual respect and harmony. quote i believe from ghandi.

As an Asian American, thank you for your support! As a human being, thank you for your support! You are making the world a better place. I wish when I am in a situation which requires me to defend myself & others against ignorant rhetoric I could borrow your brain because more times than not, confrontations make me turn dumb. Or at least I feel that way.

I start my day off with one of your videos every day and it just sets the rest of my day up to be great.

Asia is a continent and not a country. I'm black and I stand together with Asian brothers and sisters.

Yes sir🙌🏽 I like how you broke this down and I like your intellect. You are truly open minded and I subscribed!!!🙌🏽

100% Agree with you Dude. Keep doing what you do!

I have so much respect for who you are and what you do❤️ Much love and respect.

Thank you for your wonderful work and leadership with a message and example that is always clear and so needed in these times. Your pure heart and integrity is very appreciated 🙏

I can't believe this hasn't been viewed more. This man is incredible. Every word you said was beautiful and full of truth. Ill stand with all my Asian sisters and brothers. As well as any other human in the time of need.

Thank you for your time and efforts towards making this World a better place

I absolute love Free Hugs Project! They know exactly what's up.

One of the best solution to this problem is GRATEFULNESS. We have to understand that there are people, countries who have it 10x worse than us. The low income in our country is wealthy compare to those in 3rd world countries who earn >$500 a month. And alot of them are happier than those who make higher income. We have to teach people GRATEFULNESS which I don't hear alot of people talk about especially our leaders in this country 🙏

Thank you for posting this ❤️

So well said sir, so well said.

We need to stand together! ✊✊🏾✊✊🏾 We are in this together! All lives matter!

Ur a great man, it's hard finding people like u with all this violence out there in the world. I remember that u went to the OPMS maybe a couple days ago and listening to ur story was just amazing. I honestly couldnt look away. Keep it up, ur doing a fantastic job, I love u man❤

Ken, my wife and I love what you are doing. God bless you and your family. Keep it going and always stay strong Brother! Ken

thanks bro. bless your heart.

Hey bud long time no see thank you for sharing ❤️👍

i just wanna say that this is the best and most practical counter argument you can have to all lives matter, end all hate, and just being disrespectful to any race. everything you said was so well spoken and thought provoking and it all just makes sense.

Thank you for this. #protectasianlives #stopasianhate

I love this man so much

I stand with you. I agree with everything you said here! I have followed you since the 2020 riots and have been so touched by your heart and your movement.

I love you sir.. You are a hero...I joined your cause back when you first started. God bless you and yours, all your days.

Great video, very clarifying, thank you. I'm not from US and was not aware of what happened, so I was confused.

Thank you. ❤️

This man is uniting everyone!

Thank you for your work! That is what the world needs!

Free hugs project is probably one of the most wholesome projects ever.

I remain hopeful that these louder and larger conversations about groups and subgroups and subsubgroups will eventually follow the thread down to a recognition that the single greatest minority is that of the individual. Imagine building a system built on the rights of the individual. I fully support your larger message about reducing violence and hate through love and respect of each individual you embrace.

Thank you so very much for standing up to do the right thing.

Thank you

Love what u r saying. Thank u...

Thank you for perpetuating civil discourse!! 🥰

Hats off to you sir

I'm so saddened by people who only feel compaction for those who they feel are like them; for some it's religion, for some it's ethnicity and for the rich it's class. Love your videos ❤️

if more people around the world had your mentality and empathy wed definantly live in a better world. Youre a great roll model, bro.

The problem is too many negative, insecure, unhappy, hateful, emotionally immature, ignorant assholes in this world. They gotta change on their own.

Ken, I would never assume you would race bate! You have love in your heart and always the best intentions. Keep your head up and we will continue to look to you for inspiration.

We love u brother most of us wanna

Is shooting and killing someone ever anything else but a hate crime?? This was horrific regardless of who did it to whom. Perhaps we should also think about this from a mental health perspective. God bless us all

We need this man to be the president

Life is too short for hate. I don't understand why. Share love and goodness to each other. Hug you 🤗 💖

Very well said.

I feel the reason ppl get mad with #stopaisanhate is because for reason that you have said but also because (now this is me speculating) ppl feel it lowers the importance of Black Lives Matter or some ppl feel it’s like Black Lives Matter as you mention and see it the same as stop all Asian hate. Me personally I feel labeling something as a hate crime isn’t healthy only because how do you decide when something is a hate crime but I do agree with you that him targeting Asian places seems race motivated. I started following you recently because I was assuming you’d be posting vids in the future. Turns out I was right lol I also listen to your podcast because I love how open minded you are. It sucks that ppl decide to get mad instead of just sitting down and listening to each other. Cant wait to see what other content you come out with. You are an inspiration to a lot of ppl. Even me

#StopAsianHate #StopAAPIHate #ProtectOurElders

As a white south african living in reversed apartheid where corrupt government spur on hatred and destruction, you sometimes find yourself with feelings of hatred towards blacks. This is hard to admit because this is not how I was raised. The hatred comes from watching destruction, corruption, torture and murders on the news. With great effort, I have to remind myself that, just as I was not apart of the horrific things and ideas of my government years ago, so too are not all blacks apart of the ideas of the government today. Your channel takes the effort away. Your channel takes the hatred away and brings perspective and peace in my heart. Your channel reminds me to love and reminds me that news only shows one part. There are good people and bad people within all races. To hate everyone of a race for a group in that race’s wrong doing is a mistake. It is my mistake. Thank you for your videos that brings love back into my heart and wipes colour out of my mind. Love for others.

Respect and yes we aĺl are one humans race on the planet different colors and different cultures and different languages but still we are the same... beautiful creatures made by Almighty Father. We are just passing through and make the best everyday... yesterday is gone... today is today... tomorrow is another day... sending prayers love strength hugs blessings to you all... 🙏❤🙏❤

We need more people like you. It's a virus. This will not be the first or the last. Thank you.

THIS MAN WAS AT OUR SCHOOL!!! :>

Que projeto lindo e simples, visite o Brasil urgente, o brasileiro vai amar e reconhecer muito esse lindo trabalho.

wow u were at my school mills park middle!

I want to hug you! Thank you

i feel that if you wanna STOP hate of any group iof people STOP using words like STOP HATE. Its bringing attention to those words. THis is something we need to talk about. START loving Asians MORE would be better. Its magic when we use words. STOP focusing on grouping people and we will all merge in and realize we all bleed RED ... we were all enslaved and still are

I believe that racism is wrong.

There’s an artist named Arthur Kwon Lee who was just on the Jesse Lee Peterson show. I wonder what you’d think of him

They divide us All & we fall for... (Programming thru movies, media) Malcolm X "Only a fool allows his enemy to educate his children."

Thank you for supporting. Hopefully change is coming for everyone.

Where are you man?

Does anyone know what happened to the documentary?

Exposeing anti Asia

It’s just not right.

It not making fun of asian people when said china virus its making fun of the communist regime of china, but i understand you and where you are coming

Before any of you start: Free speech does not guarantee you a right to Ken's platform. If you're blocked from making comments, Ken has a right to do that, because this is his part of RU-vid. It is nobody's job to deal with hate speech in general. Nobody has to scroll through the comments of their own videos and see vile and upsetting statements.

mashah allah

This is why I have always said ALL lives matter. I stand in solidarity with ALL people not just a specific subgroup of people. I don't play identity politics and never will. Once we realize that violence towards anyone is abhorrent, that's when things will finally change for the better. We need to make individuals accountable for their actions again rather than a whole group. For example: Not all blacks are thugs, not all police are bad, not all whites are evil, not all Muslims are terrorists, not all Chinese are apart of the CCP, etc. We need to stop hate. Censorship will not help, but will only make it worse. I will also stand in solidarity with those who wish to say disrespectful things. Only reason is because sometimes people don't know enough of said topic before they speak. I'm going to give an example of this. There was a black men that went and attended KKK meetings. Sat in the front row every time. They didn't like it, but they let him stay. The man kept talking to them and ended up getting a few people to leave the KKK movement. They were brought up with a certain thinking, but when they realized that what they were taught was wrong, they left the kkk and changed their life for the better rather than staying in the racist thinking. Knowledge is power. We are in an information war, and that is why we are seeing the identity politics. There are things going on behind the scenes that they are using identity politics to distract us from. Violence is wrong. People need to stop assuming something is either race based or whatnot until all the details come out. I cannot trust the media with giving us all the information, because most of the ones they have reported on have been lies. Riots were started over lies. Cities burned and businesses never to return.. over lies. I feel for the Asian community like I did with the Muslim community back in 2001, but we need to get out of the identity politics and realize that unwarrented violence towards anyone is unacceptable. No one ever said anything about the blacks, Asians, whites, Mexicans, purto Ricans, Chinese, etc that had been attacked throughout trumps presidency. But now we are hearing it left and right? Those who are violent need to be put into jail. Those who say hurtful things.. just let them be ignorant or help them find the light. Anyone remember the saying, "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."? Yeah... we have become way to damn sensitive lately. But the 90's was amazing!!! No one cared about anything unless you were being a prick. No one tried shoving anything down our throats either. It was truly, live and let live type of environment. With everyone being as sensitive as we have become, I don't ever see us returning to that point in time. We also need to unite and fight the TRUE enemy.. which is the global elites/establishment. Trump was not the enemy they perceived him as. In fact, he was exposing them for what they were and bringing their true colors to light. We need to really pay attention to what our elected officials are saying and listen to the candidates before we elect into office. In fact, if people paid much attention.. the party that has been trying to take away our rights and dictate how we live our lives has been the democrats. Took me a long time to realize that, as I was a life long democrat.. always wanting to help people. But there comes a time when you have to stop and think if the party really has your best interest. Taking away guns and your ability to protect yourself and your family, releasing violent criminals from prison, wanting to abolish police departments, late term abortion, sending most of the relief aid overseas (why does Pakistan need money for a gender studies program with our covid relief money?), wanting to get rid of private Healthcare to only give us government run Healthcare, wanting to get rid of private prisons and only have government run facilities, sending billions of our money to Iran, ignoring all of China's atrocities they have committed, and the list is endless. Question.. did anyone realize that under Obama, China had been telling their people that the U.S. was a part of Chinese territories? Not one shot will need to be fired in our country in order for a foreign country to take over. The global elites have proved it. With all the identity politics and the division (divide and conquer is the oldest trick in the book), they are that much closer to conquering our country. We are at eachothers throat, and that's exactly what they want. I have been trying to bring this to light regarding the elites/establishment for decades. No one listened except the people outside the democrat control (some people still refer to themselves as democrats, but have left the hijacked party. Some are independent, some are conservative and some are republican..). I think this would be a great time to think about creating different parties. Parties that are actually for the people rather than controlled by the elites. I feel the democrat party is on its last leg. We need to let it die off and create something better. Until we all realize we are all here together, regardless of skin color and beliefs, nothing will change and things will only get worse. We need to judge people based on the content of their character, not based on the color of their skin.. MLK.

Please excuse the grammar

The main problem with this take that is pointed out to me over & over is that changing why these people were attacked makes it seem like the reason they were attacked is not enough. As if people don’t care that they were attacked because of where they worked if they can make a point because most of them were of one race. Who should be concerned? Asians or massage parlor workers? Say there was a teacher at a school with a large Asian population & he molested six thirteen year old girls, five of whom were Asian. Should we only talk about protecting Asians from sexual assault or all minors? Did this person target Asians because their race or because they were the most easily available? (Neither of which is okay but why confuse the true issue?) I know a lot of people are happy that the media is finally beginning to cover the racism Asians have dealt with for decades but, it is frustrating that they are still only covering the most sensational cases & not the everyday cases that often occur in areas where witnesses don’t typically come forward. Those cases seem to still not matter to anyone. You may be very sincere & not deserve any hatred but.... so many people are just burnt out on the fake sincerity of the (blank) lives matters movements while they destroy our neighborhoods & communities & livelihoods & push the very separatism that we do not want to bring back..... ever. As I said, I’m sure you don’t deserve the hate but hopefully this kind of helps make people’s frustration more understandable. If not with you, with the baloney they typically get from other people that push those same ideas. Hey, you seem like a great guy, be the change you want to see right? Keep it up!

How about we stop all hate

Meant to say the Vietnamese were given special privileges by the American government at the end of the Vietnam war that cause jealousy this happened in 1975 a lot of Vietnamese people purchase stores in black ghetto areas labor not used to the negative behavior

aye

I believe the conflict started 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War a lot of people upset because of Vietnamese were giving a lot of special privileges by the government circus Xtreme tax breaks also Asian people bought small stores in black ghetto areas they were not used to the behavior

Bro I’m Asian, and black, why does it have to be my cultures?

If all the black men are like this man America would be a better country but sadly there's always some bad apples.

I think you are misguided but with the right message. Asian hate (like you mentioned) comes mostly from upper class, colleges, because diversity quotas have backfired, and the la riots. This is where the most damage has happened to asian communities and families. Ive noticed bigotry and racism against asians alot (locally for me it was loa). But bigotry and words and memes dont hurt quality of life, physical harm does. Trying to stop hate through authoritarian means is something i very much disagree with. The best way to stop hate is merge cultures, not make jokes taboo. Make those jokes, cuz everyone else makes those jokes about everyone else. The more you give them verbal immunity, the more alien they will seem (for those without contact to the actual people). I dont disagree that this is wrong, that this is a hate crime, that this needs to be changed, that this isnt a cause worthy of action or a voice. I disagree with out some go about trying to impliment change. I love what you do, i love the fact you are community focused no matter what on all topics and the fact you are completely against hate across the board. I love you bro and i hope civil discourse can return to the main stage, so we can figure out how to solves these obvious issues instead of name calling and fact denying (honestly its rampant on both sides)

hey thanks for the video; just my two cents since yours is one of few that even desire to look at the subject. the violance against asian americans just owes to the recent radicalisation that would have been prevented in a responsible culture. the core of the racism is promoted by america's conservatives and its media, and it stems from racial narcissism of american whites; the elements of such are evident from the insults and the ridiculing of asians that pervade amrican culture, denying dignity, basic respect, and acknowledgement as human beings, which trickle down and propagate through everyone that american culture pervades. When fellow minorities such as black americans engage in racially targeted attacks against asians, generally young blacks, it is actually a phenomenon in which the aggressor itself is a victim of its own racism and does not have a sociological framework where an individual of another race being prsently targeted should be treated with such respect, which the aggressor has scant examples to draw from. When news reports on such events, the aforementioned conservatives jump on the instnaces to confound the source of phenomenon to the attributing racism to black americans or whatever would be convenient

It just means Asian life’s matter bro nothing against u guys that 2020 blm is fake

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Stop all hate, no one alive today owned slaves, I’m talking about white people, so why can’t people understand this

Equating this to people saying China virus, and Kung flu is insinuating that these hate crimes are committed by mostly Black people that think somehow Asian American citizens had something to do with the virus? A couple words did NOT start these pathetic hate crimes. I still think you’re a great dude.

How come no one cares about the attacks on the Jewish community?

Who is hating Asians 🤔

Lol protest free hugs at trump rally’s when we actually need trump again should try doing that at a joe Biden rally

Lol..."Kung Flu" that's the first time I heard that one. Thank you. Classic!

He'd have killed those people regardless of their race. I'm so disappointed at the number of people I've always had respect and admiration for who are playing into the race baiting.

Still blaming Trump? I thought this was a Liberal channel. I'd still give you a hug though.

Look all I’m here to say is the extreme racism I saw in China and the barring of black people from businesses including black pregnant women let’s me know where I stand.... stop Asian hate but uhh....I’m very perplexed and confused ...

Kung flu

It’s wrong to say this was a hate crime, prove me wrong. Just say this appears it may have been a hate crime and wait for the evidence to come out.

Thank you