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May 20, 2026: SQUAT Show Ep. 26 - REAL ASIAN HATE

Anti-Asian hate crimes in the US went from 158 in 2019 to 279 in 2020 and then more than doubled again by 2021, per the FBI. In Canada, Statistics Canada recorded a 300% increase in hate crimes against East and Southeast Asian people between 2019 and 2020 alone. And while all that was happening, Filipino nurses, who make up 4% of the registered nursing workforce in the US, were accounting for more than a quarter of RN COVID deaths. In Canada, Filipinos make up 34% of internationally trained nurses. The first patient attendant to die of COVID in Quebec was Victoria Salvan, a Filipino woman who had worked at the Grace Dart CHSLD in Montreal for 25 years. She was months from retirement. Hate-crime reporting can count the incidents. But the systems that produce them don't show up in any report.

Episode 26 takes the phrase "Real Asian Hate" and routes it back at the actual structures: the labor pipelines, the military bases, the nonprofits that turned Stop Asian Hate into a policing program. The title comes directly from No Model's own subtitle for their 2026 discography release on Kill Yellow Fever Records: "Weaponized Asian American Diaspora / The Real Asian Hate." The set opens with the North American diaspora of Dog Breath, FERMENT, No Model, namatay sa ingay, and Material Support, then moves to internationally touring acts across the Pacific, and closes with Southeast Asia and Asian picks refusing respectability and conformity on their own ground.

Songlist

• Dog Breath – By Any Means (New York, USA)
• FERMENT – ISOLATION ft. DECEPT (New York, USA)
• No Model – Subhuman (East Coast, USA)
• Pilau – Incentive (Washington DC, USA)
• namatay sa ingay – T.N.T. (Tago ng Tago) (New York, USA)
• Material Support – The Sword, The Cross (Queens, New York, USA)
• SPEED – ALL MY ANGELS (Sydney, Australia)
• Whispers – Retribution (Bangkok, Thailand)
• Sial – Kita Dilahirkan Untuk Mati (Singapore)
• Piri Reis – Curse on Pasumpahan Island (Malaysia)
• SPIT! – KILL MY WOMB (Taipei, Taiwan)
• Cút Lộn – Hôm Qua (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
• Spitrage – Intro / Corrupted (Depok, Indonesia)
• WAFAQ – The Worlds Mounth, The Voice of War (Padang, Indonesia)
• Avhath & KUNTARI – A Threnody (Jakarta / Bandung, Indonesia)
• Changes – Take For Granted (Kuantan, Malaysia)

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