The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes

> Trump and numerous other members of his White House staff embraced racist and xenophobic anti-Asian rhetoric language early on in the pandemic, repeatedly referring to COVID-19 as the “China virus” and the “Wuhan virus.”

So why are WHO representatives in Wuhan now? Are they xenophobic too? Is everybody?

The really ugly thing is that most evidence points at corona escaping from the Wuhan lab, which explains the CCP coverup.

> Many blame the Trump administration for inciting this violence; Trump and numerous other members of his White House staff embraced racist and xenophobic anti-Asian rhetoric...

> NYPD date showed that there has been a 1,900 percent increase anti-Asian hate crimes in New York City in the past year... An 84-year-old Thai American man, Vicha Ratanapakdee, was killed in an unprovoked attack in San Francisco; a 64-year-old Vietnamese American woman was assaulted in broad daylight in San Jose... caught on camera shoving a 91-year-old man in Oakland’s Chinatown

Trump only won 20% of the votes in New York City. Only 13% of the votes in San Francisco. Only 25% of the votes in San Jose. And 16% of the votes in Oakland. All of the examples cited occurred in some of the least Trump-supportive areas of the country.

Indian-American here. One thing I often find irritating about the phrase "Asian-American" is that it's usually used to refer to people with East Asian heritage (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, etc). Somehow people with South Asian heritage, like myself, often aren't included in that category, to the point that my girlfriend was surprised to hear that Indian-Americans count as Asian-American.

I'm afraid so. There is this weird double standard when it comes to diversity. It's almost always exclusive of non-dark skin minorities.

ex) Ivy League admissions, quotas in professional schools, etc.

Now the above is real systematic racism. Speaking the truth is dangerous these days.