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Old 03-31-2021, 10:59 PM   #9
YungBoba
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For full disclosure I am Asian-American so obviously this hits closer to home and I'm more exposed to it. This has been happening for months now. Many think that the #StopAsianHate movement was born out of the Atlanta shootings, but our people have been attacked in broad daylight on the street way before that happened. The shooting was just the most deadly one and the one that the media focused on the most. See below for just a sampling of incidents, all within the past 2-3 months or so.

It's a ****ed up world when these are older/elderly people just minding their own business and being ambushed out of nowhere. It's sad when I have to worry about my parents going to the grocery store and being attacked. Racism against Asians blew up big time shortly after COVID, mostly from the fact that COVID originated in China and people were just looking for an easy target, but a lot of the racism I saw and heard about last year was just verbal in nature. Still ****ed up, but telling someone "go back to your country" is nowhere near as bad as physically attacking them.

There was also a "slap an Asian challenge" going around social media a few weeks ago. As if social media wasn't already a bad enough influence on people the Bay Area (San Francisco/Oakland) and NYC are hotspots for these types of attacks. There have been a few in LA but nowhere near as many as the other two areas.

https://www.ktvu.com/news/oakland-po...d-man-2-others

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...ds-not-guilty/

https://news.yahoo.com/oakland-china...200906490.html

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation...-francisco-man

https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-t...crime/6800853/

https://abc7news.com/chinatown-attac...eaten/5874912/

https://abc7news.com/stockton-tunnel...lt-in/5972042/
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