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The best way to stop Anti-Asian hate is to intervene when you are a witness to it, explained Senior Trainer at<\/span> Hollaback!<\/span><\/a> Dr. Myra Jacob at a virtual training on Thursday. The event was designed to be an interactive experience to help teach bystanders how to safely de-escalate acts of violence while these hate crimes are on the<\/span> rise<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n The easiest way to help someone getting harassed according to Jacob is to remember \u201cthe five Ds\u201d: distract, delegate, document, delay and be direct. \u201cYou can\u2019t intervene if you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re looking for,\u201d said Jacob, advising students to assess a situation and decide which of the five is appropriate and most comfortable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe five D\u2019s allow people to step up safely and de-escalate the situation,\u201d said Jacob. \u201cIf you are too afraid to be direct, try an indirect form of intervention. Maybe ask for directions or drop your drink, any way to distract people,\u201d she continued.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Co-organizer Joy De Guzman, manager of community engagement at <\/span>Asian Americans Advancing Justice<\/span><\/a> shared an experience of waiting for a train on a subway platform when someone asked her what kind of Asian she was. She ignored him–\u201cI didn\u2019t want any trouble\u201d–and moved to the other end of the car. He followed her off the train three blocks to her office. \u201cNobody intervened, nobody told him to stop,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n Jacob said the witnesses were probably scared. \u201cPeople normally don\u2019t get involved out of fear,\u201d she said. Only 25% of people said they received help when being harassed according to a study by <\/span>Hollaback!<\/span><\/a> Of those, 79% agreed it helped when someone got involved.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Online harassment<\/span><\/a> is also on the rise and Jacob encourages students to use similar methods when surfing the web. \u201cOnce a post is reported there is no record of it. It\u2019s very important to have records of harassment,\u201d she said, telling students to always screenshot and send the post to the victim so that they have a record and know that there are others looking out for them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Jacob knows that acknowledging the trauma of others is a big step in ending anti-Asian hate. In doing so, she called for a moment of silence to honor those who lost their lives in the <\/span>2021 <\/span>Atlanta spa <\/span><\/a>shootings and the Indianapolis <\/span>FedEx shooting<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Following the moment of silence, De Guzman used her platform to also speak about the Black Lives Matter movement and how bothered she is that she has often seen people trying to pin the Stop Asian Hate movement against it.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe same safety that we want for Asian American communities, we have to demand for our Black communities,\u201d De Guzman said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Experts help students gain a better understanding on how to safely intervene when witnessing anti-Asian hate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,324],"tags":[422],"class_list":["post-3793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-student-life","tag-stopasianhate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3796,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions\/3796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}