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John Oliver on Atlanta Shootings: "Anti-Asian Racism Has Long Been a Fact of American Life"

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John Oliver admonished President Biden for saying last week that the recent mass shootings in Atlanta are "un-American" on Sunday's episode of Last Week Tonight.

Last week, authorities charged a 21-year-old man, Robert Aaron, with eight counts of murder for the slayings, four of which occurred at a massage parlor in Cherokee County.

Six of the victims were women of Asian descent. Oliver showed a clip of Biden's remarks last week condemning the attacks, which he called "vicious hate crimes against Asian Americans who've been attacked, harassed, blamed and scapegoated." Biden added: "It's wrong, it's un-American and it must stop." While Oliver agreed with that sentiment, he took issue with the use of the term "un-American." Said Oliver: "I am.

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