Alien to most Asians, "AAPI"-short for "Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders"-reflects the Associated Press's commitment to adopting the language of left-wing activists.
The AP's email promoted the Stop AAPI Hate movement, a left-wing organization that tracks domestic hate crimes against Asians.
Although the AP claims "AAPI" is popular within Asian communities, the Washington Free Beacon could find little evidence it was used in any mainstream publications prior to the last few years.
The New York Times, for example, used the term just once in 2018, when it referred to the research group AAPI Data in a story inspired by the film Crazy Rich Asians.
The Free Beacon could not locate the term "AAPI" in any AP story prior to 2013, when the outlet wrote a story titled "Asian groups, White House seek better race data." Another story, from 2016, quotes a Republican National Committee spokesman as using the term "AAPI." The piece's authors later write, "Nearly 4 million Asians voted in the 2012 presidential election." The rule changes urge journalists to "Avoid using Asian as shorthand for Asian American."
Washington, D.C., which is just over 4 percent Asian, searched for the term more than any state in the country.
Prior to publication, the Free Beacon spoke with numerous Asian Americans, none of whom was familiar with the term until a year ago.
https://freebeacon.com/media/associated-press-doubles-down-on-left-wing-rhetoric/
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