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Old 04-01-2021, 12:45 PM   #22
Chuck H
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I have to admit that I wasn't aware of how much of a problem this has become, since mainstream media all but ignored it until the Atlanta shootings. And it's really unfortunate that it took something that bad to make it newsworthy. I just worry that if those attacks become the whole basis for the #StopAsianHate movement, it could backfire when more details eventually come out in the shooter's trial. If they discover that his main motivation was misogyny because he was a frustrated incel type and the victims were mostly Asian because the majority of massage parlors in the area are Asian-owned, it could give the deplorables all the ammunition they need to call the whole thing "fake news".

I also think that Trump and the GOP caused a lot of this with their constant use of China virus or China flu to refer to COVID, intead of using the actual name. It's been a successful strategy for them forever now -- as long as you can blame anything bad on some "other" person or group, you never have to take responsibility for anything.
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