https://www.businessinsider.com/grace-meng-chip-roy-trump-hearing-anti-asian-violence-2021-3 At a hearing Thursday about the rising wave of anti-Asian violence, GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas used his opening remarks to attack the need for such a hearing. He then quoted an old saying glorifying lynchings in Texas, to point the finger at China, and criticized the hearing as an attempt to stifle free speech. "I'm not going to be ashamed of saying that I oppose ... the Chinese Communist Party. And when we say things like that, and we're talking about that, we shouldn't be worried about having a committee of members of Congress policing our rhetoric because some evildoers go engage in some evil activity, as occurred in Atlanta, Georgia." In response, Democratic Rep. Grace Meng of New York accused Roy, former President Donald Trump, and other Republicans of "putting a bull's-eye on the back" of Asian Americans by repeatedly using inflammatory rhetoric about the COVID-19 pandemic.
