When the jokes aren't funny
At our first lab meeting since the COVID-19 lockdowns were lifted, I sensed unease. After taking a seat at a large table, I noticed that no one seemed to want to sit next to me. As more people shuffled in, most of my labmates huddled on the opposite side of the table. Someone mentioned the “kung flu.” Another labmate “joked” that Asians really ought to be wearing masks, especially in small gatherings such as lab meetings. It took me a few moments to realize that—as the only Asian person in the room—they were likely talking about me. I know I should have been wearing a mask, but I wasn't the only person in the room without one.
> “Racist comments … should not be normalized and tolerated.”
A few days before that, I was sitting in the building's atrium with a Black colleague discussing an experimental method when a scientist from another lab joined us. Upon noticing my colleague's Black Lives Matter pin, the scientist said, “You really ought to keep your politics at home.” We were bo
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