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They said the officer told them she believed Lillienfeld targeted Asian and Black students with off-color jokes, once calling the only two Asian students “Chinamen” and repeatedly making fun of a woman’s name.

By 1890, the business directory for Humboldt County was boasting that it was “the only county in the state containing no Chinamen.”

“This show isn’t about me, nor is it about Asian America,” Huang wrote, in an essay for New York, calling it “a reverse-yellowface show with universal white stories played out by Chinamen.”

Mr. Beckel’s exit from Fox wasn’t his first run-in with racial controversies involving information technology specialists; he was criticized in 2014 for referring to “Chinamen” on air.

“Us that knowed her,” he said, “never doubted she saved some Chinamen first.”