More than 9,000 anti-Asian incidents reported since the pandemic began
By: BY TERRY TANG, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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More than 9,000 anti-Asian incidents reported since the pandemic began
The frequency of anti-Asian incidents — from taunts to outright assaults — reported in the United States so far this year appears poised to surpass last year’s despite months of political and social activism, according to a new report released Thursday.
Stop AAPI Hate, a national coalition that has gathered data on racially motivated attacks related to the COVID-19 pandemic, received 9,081 incident reports between March 19, 2020, and June 2021. Of those, 4,548 occurred last year and 4,533 this year. Since the coronavirus was first reported in China, people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent have been scapegoated solely based on their race.
Lawmakers, activists and community groups have pushed back against the wave of attacks. There have been countless social media campaigns, bystander training sessions and public rallies. In May, President Biden signed the bipartisan COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act , expediting Justice Department reviews of anti-Asian hate crimes and making available federal grants.
Those supporters should not feel discouraged because the data haven’t shifted much, Stop AAPI Hate leaders said.
“When you encourage hate, it’s not like a genie in a bottle where you can pull it out and push it back in whenever you want,” said Manjusha Kulkarni, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate and executive director of the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council. “There’s too much perpetuating these belief systems to make them go away.”
Several factors contributed to the rise in the data, including an increase in incidents and a greater willingness to report them, according to Kulkarni. Also, as the economy opened up more in the last few months, it meant more public interactions and opportunities for attack , she said. And a bump in reporting typically occurs after a high-profile incident like the March 16 Atlanta-area spa shootings that left six Asian women dead.
The reports aggregated by Stop AAPI Hate are from the victims themselves or someone reporting on their behalf, such as an adult child. Overall, the report found verbal harassment and shunning — interactions that don’t qualify legally as hate crimes — make up the two largest shares of total incidents. Physical assaults made up the third-largest share. But their proportion of the incidents this year increased from last year — 16.6%, compared with 10.8%.
More than 63% of the incidents were submitted by women. Roughly 31% took place on public streets, and 30% at businesses.
Many Asian Americans and others blame former President Trump for ratcheting up the danger by talking about the coronavirus in racially charged terms. While Biden has demonstrated “ally-ship,” there is concern that a U.S. investigation into the origins of the virus could lead to more hostility and treatment of Asian Americans as foreign enemies.
“We understand that other nation-states are competitors to the United States, and a number of them do have authoritarian regimes,” Kulkarni said. “But the ways in which we talk about the people and the ways in which blame is assigned somehow looks different for communities of color than it does for, say, the Russian government or the German government.”
Many of the headline-making attacks over the last year and a half have been against elderly Asian people on both coasts. In most of those cases, a senior was beaten, kicked, shoved or even stabbed from out of nowhere. Several such incidents have been caught on video.
Anni Chung, president and CEO of the San Francisco-based Self-Help for the Elderly, says the seniors they help were hit by a “second virus — that is, a hate virus.” The organization provides food and programs for more than 40,000 older adults in the Bay Area, most of them of Asian descent. The group went from transporting a pre-pandemic load of 400 meals daily to more than 5,000. Last year, it distributed 963,000 meals overall, compared with 436,000 typically.
“Sometimes when we talk to seniors, they say this hatred drove them to be stuck in their house even worse than the pandemic,” Chung said.
For them, the fear is more than a headline but something in their own backyard.
“One of our clients was on the bus. Right before the man got off the bus, he just punched her,” Chung said. “She said no one — not the bus driver and a number of Chinese on the bus — went to her care.”
Giving into that fear means seniors have missed important things like doctor’s appointments or exercise routines at the park. So, in June, with some funding from the city, the organization expanded a volunteer escort service to accompany seniors on errands or outings around Chinatown and other neighborhoods. They had more than 200 requests that month.
The onslaught of verbal and physical assaults has drawn more skepticism than sympathy from some. Peter Yu, a Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Colorado who is Chinese American, came under fire last month for characterizing anti-Asian hate crime as exaggerated.
“I would welcome him to look at the data and see there has been a significant increase,” Kulkarni said. “This may be a situation when people refuse to see racism or misogyny. I think they’re just really refusing to see reality and how, unfortunately, in the U.S. we have allowed those forces to prevent people from living their lives.”
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I can't help but think about Al Pacino's last words in the movie Devil's Advocate: "Vanity - it's my favourite vice", and carry it a little forward to think: "HATRED - it's America's favourite emotion".
Stop AAPI Hate has been driving this narrative trying to like anti-Asian hate crimes to Dopnald Trump, in other words they have an agenda.. You may recall Buzz that others posted such stories months ago.
Do you remember why those stories vanished?
Because I asked about the statistics your seeded article doesn not contain!
I'll give you a chance to find the answer.
Who are the predominent perpetrators of anti-Asian assaults/hate crimes?
It is because the Turd Reich referred to it as the China virus and the kung flu which drove ignorant fools to assault and attack anyone they thought was Asian.
Wrong.
I asked who the predominent perpetrators were. If you don't want to look it up, abstain from the slogans.
It seems that Buzz doesn't want to answer. Instead he gave that comment a vote up.
I'm correct.
You're wrong.
I will say whatever the fuck I please and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it
"Dope-nald Trump"? You got that right, but your spelling was a bit off.
I had already answered your question above - Americans who are NOT Asian.
Gee whiz, Vic. I didn't answer IMMEDIATELY because I was eating breakfast - it is now 8:30 a.m. here. Sorry to have been so tardy.
That comment is a bold face lie.
Here Buzz, read some facts:
"California State University San Bernadino’s extremism research center published its latest report on hate crimes allegations, but it did not include the race or ethnicity of offenders.
However, a researcher on the project said that the primary suspected perpetrators in New York, which drove the increase in hate crimes, are black or Latino.
“The 2020 anti-Asian hate crime numbers in New York with respect to perpetrators are roughly in line with the overall arrestee/suspect ratios for 2020,” Professor Brian Levin , director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism, told The College Fix via email.
He said the breakdown for crime in the city is “about 80% Black and Latino for all crime, and around 90% for hate crime.”
Levin said that “with very small suspect/arrestee numbers these variances can be impacted by even an anomalous single incident.”"
Wrong.
While news reports and social media have perpetuated the idea that anti-Asian violence is committed mostly by people of color, a new analysis shows the majority of attackers are white.
And your link with the dubious name doesn't work.
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Ha Ha Ha!
Wong is a bit of an activist isn't she?
She betrayed herself with this comment:
Wong told NBC Asian America that such dangerous misconceptions about who perpetrates anti-Asian hate incidents can have "long-term consequences for racial solidarity."
Racial Solidarity? Against whom? The rest of us maybe.
No I stand on the facts that I provided. Wong is wrong!
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BTW it might be time for Confucius to enforce those group rules.
LIke hell it is. All I have said is "Americans who are NOT Asian." And that incluces alll other colours, does it not?
No dodges Buzz.
You blamed Trump. Inner city black perpetrators in big blue cities aren't exactly Trump supporters, Buzz.
How is that wrong or a bad thing to say...
Do you know the meaning of solidarity...
My post stands. I'll take info from a NBC article any day over some unknown slanted source connected to Betsy Devos.
As early as 2015 Rick DeVos had served as a board member of the Student Free Press Association, though this relationship was not disclosed in the site's coverage of DeVos. [1] Days after the report John Miller apologized and took blame for the oversight. [5]
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Trump is a major cause for anti-Asian hate in the USA due to his use of racist xenophobic language in describing the virus, besides his and his administration's incessant verbal attacks on China and anything connected with China. His tribe are his sheep and will follow his lead. You DENY that he used such language?
Because it only means certain races are to march in solidarity.
You remember the old "Obama coalition?"
YES I DO.
Time for you to put up!
It means no such thing.
Your post stands against the facts!
I'm waiting. What did he say that was "xenophobic?"
And then there is that other point - you know, who the real perpetrators are.
IMPASSE
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No.
At these rallies, Black and Asian American communities came together not only to show solidarity, but also to rebut the hollow claim that anti-Asian violence is a manifestation of Black-Asian conflict.
Well, what if it was a white person who made that comment?
Further, the comment doesn't make sense to me. What does it actually matter to whatever she's thinking of as "racial solidarity" the color of the people abusing them? Like, if it's mostly blacks and Latinos who are beating them up it's not a threat to their racial solidarity but it would be if it's mostly white? Not seeing the logic.
I don't understand the cartoon. It seems to suggest that AIDS originated in the US. It originated in Africa.
Don't hit them with facts. It's destroys their memes.
It originated in Africa, IT WAS FIRST IDENTIFIED IN THE USA. And those are the facts, Ronin2.
Okay, so you're basing your argument on a China Daily cartoon claiming that we, as in America, actually said the place where it was first identified is what should be the criteria for who's responsible, rather than the fact, and I mean fact, that it originated in China? A cartoon is your basis? You're really reaching, Buzz.
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LOL. It's a cartoon. It doesn't matter if it came from Mars.
The basis is the fact that the cartoon represents. Don't make assumptions - nobody knows exactly where the virus originated as yet, and may never know. I have not disagreed that it was first identified in China.
I rather think it does. Unless you can point to some other source saying someone in government holds the view that the cartoon portrays, it's a strawman created by the Chines government in order to make a false point.
From what I've read, there's literally no one on the planet, especially in the virology world, who doesn't know where this virus originated. That is, no one questions that it came out of China. What they are trying to figure out is, did it come from nature or was it released from a lab.
No one said you did, so what's your point? The issue is the false assumption of the cartoon, which is trying to accomplish two things at the same time. First, to establish in the mind of the viewer that America is simply blaming China (as in the CCP, not the common person) because it was first identified there. The second is what you've already stated. That is, it implies that just because it was identified there first doesn't mean it originated there. No reasonable person (most of the planet with access to the internet) has any doubt where it originated.
This is just one more example as to why no one in their right mind trusts the CCP, even if they were to tell us water was wet. From the very beginning the CCP placed protecting their image above the rest of the world. That is what they are most concerned with by far. That is why they are such control freaks. That is why free speech is not allowed there. Absolutely nothing can be allowed to tarnish their presented image. The whole world knows this and why they don't trust them.
If you've read the seed, you will note these comments:
The big brave American men pick the elderly and female Asians to attack, because they're chicken-shit about attacking a person their age and sex. I saw a report that one elderly woman did a great job of fighting back.
So just what DID Asian Americans have to do with the virus, anyway? Only a moron, and obviously an awful lot of morons in the USA, would think they were the cause of it.
You're painting with a very wide brush, you might even be using a roller, if you would follow the link to "ally-ship" in the seeded article you would've found that 85 Asian groups and the LGBT community opposed Biden signing the legislation, "why?" Would you ask, because the increase in policing would turn it's attention on the black and brown communities, where the majority of the true perps are from, causing those communities to retaliate and increase the resentment.
For some reason I don't equate the black and brown communities as ardent Trump supporters/followers.
Sounds like America is experiencing a conundrum in your opinon? So maybe it's better to just do nothing about it and maybe it will go away all by itself, eh?
Many Asian Americans and others blame former President Trump for ratcheting up the danger by talking about the coronavirus in racially charged terms.
The article sets the blame with Trump, when this was happening before Trump and the pandemic. Now you could say that the pandemic has caused more resentment in those communities because, it was no secret, the disease started and travelled here from China.
The increase in the attacks now should be laid at the feet of Biden, he just gave the perps more reason to target Asians.
Biden signed the bill back in May (?), so there should already be some sort of data, since there was an increase in reported incidences, as to who is attacking the Asians, but so far nothing. Could it be that their finding it isn't the white conservative males doing these acts, but instead people of color both male and female and the reason is deeper than the pandemic or political points of view. This article goes to great pains to not mention the ethnicity of the perps, but if it were white conservative males it would be all over the news.
What do you think Joe Average American should do about it? And please don't be vague.
I think the left needs to get a handle on the 13 percent of the population that highly identifies with their ideology.
That will pretty much tamp down all of the violence against Asians, but it is much easier for them to just let them be, do what they do best, and blame republicans.
Anti-Asian racial prejudice is nothing new in the USA - it has a long history. But blaming Americans for the fact that the coronavirus happened, greatly increasing the incidents of violence and harrassment against them, defies logic, and only labels Americans as racist and intolerant.
Get angry about the attacks and harrassment of your fellow Americans, talk about it, wirite about it, help your Asian neighbours, teach your children that racial prejudice is anti-American, and don't criticize those who ARE concerned about it.
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About what I expected you to say. Vague. So...
Here's what I think I should do. Treat others as I would like to be treated. If I hear someone talking stupid crap about our friends of Asian descent, stand up and tell them they're being an idiot. If I see someone abusing them, hell, anyone abusing anyone else, step up. I'm not going to stop my life to go find someone of Asian descent to hug. People are not nice. Life isn't fair. You do something about those things by making sure you're doing what's right.
Seriously. What exactly would you like to see happen? Millions and millions of people in the streets screaming about the injustice of it all? Shouting, "We've got to do something!!!"? Maybe beat the crap out of some guy walking down the street with a tee shirt that says something about the "China virus?" Burn down an "Asian" restaurant owned and operated by a white person? Give people of Asian descent lots of money? An Asian autonomous zone, maybe? Create new laws we already have on the books but attach the word "Asian" in it somewhere? You know, like, if you punch some poor person in the face just because, you get a year in prison, unless that person was of Asian descent, then it's three years. Like that would make sense.
And this is just one issue. There are thousands of issues out there. Plastic in the oceans. Dams blocking fish runs. Feminist issues. Gay issues. Trans issues. Voting issues. Global warming issues. Political issues. Inflation issues. Racial issues. Reparation issues. Native American issues. Educational issues. PETA issues. Religious issues. and on and on and on and on. Just how many of these issues are we supposed to fit into our lives? How about you provide a list of which one's we're supposed to care about in the manner you desire us to care about it in. Then tell me what I am supposed to do with the issues I care about. Am I supposed to just put those aside for yours?
Smple answer. Do what you think is right.
Oh but your sour source is The ( Award Winning ) Los Angeles Times which has a slightly left leaning rating on MBFC.
"Our readers" should not ever be subjected to such radical objectiveness; they have feelings./s
Just thought I would get that out of the way.
Are you saying that the story is biased, and the the right-wingers will say and be correct that in fact it's the elderly and female Asian Americans that have actually been the cause of the virus, and that they are beating up non-Asian men and women on the streets of America?
Sorry Buzz
I thought I was being sufficiently sarcastic of the expected right wing nonsense to come.
Of course you were being sarcastic,and I just followed suit with a continuation of what you said.
I'm going out to play ping-pong now so this seed is locked until I return.