It's absolutely valid to have personal tastes for candidates, to disapprove of their messaging choices on certain subjects, and to criticize them for any reason - but I really don't buy into the emerging narrative that Andrew Yang is racist:
The man directly cited white fragility as a threat to his community and his children.
From what I've seen, he's more explicitly and forcefully called out the alt-right than some of the most popular candidates this cycle.
As the son of immigrants I understand what it's like to make a life in a new country. There is a place for everyone. There is no place for hate. Love and Humanity First.
And who is going to be the boogeyman of the next 10 to 20 years? Who's going to be the great rival to the United States in the eyes of American society? China, that's right. And so, what do you think the attitude is going to be over time for the shrinking, insecure white majority that's losing their jobs for, let's say, Chinese Americans or Asian Americans? I don't — l personally — I said to a group at Harvard, I think we're one generation away from falling into the same camps as that the Jews who were attacked in a synagogue in Pittsburgh like just a couple months. So we're probably one generation away from an American shooting up a bunch of Asians saying like, damn the Chinese, because there's a giant Cold War even more with China. That is the great danger that I fear that my children are going to grow up in.
The man directly cited white fragility as a threat to his community and his children.
From what I've seen, he's more explicitly and forcefully called out the alt-right than some of the most popular candidates this cycle.