Absolutely, especially post Covid I've seen several senseless random attacks on Asians regardless of nationality or origins. I hope it's just a passing thing which was fueled by Trump. I feel for them. I feel for all folks whose mere look renders them targets for hate crimes. I really thought we put that behind but recently, during the past 5 years I realized how wrong I was.
Several attacks on asians in the last couple of months in New York suggest that there is a problem related to Trump followers, fans, whatever you want to call them. Several were caught that’s why I drew this conclusion. If you remember Trump stirred a lot of hate in this country and while these sentiments didn’t start with Trump, he certainly brought them to the surface.
if you look at the polling data, more minorities voted for the Republicans during 2020 than any time in the last forty years. The idea that Trump stirred up racial hate is not established in the broader community. and there are plenty of examples of the left using racial sensitivities to drive politician opinion and support, going as far as making up fake racial attacks (aka hate hoaxes). oddly, these are rarely denounced for the hatred and fear they create.
You aren't wrong about this, and to boot, I just got back from a week and a half with my in-laws, who are Filipino-Americans.
They are pretty rabid Trump supporters, probably not unrelated to the fact that my wife's family are universally successful, extremely wealthy, entrepreneurs. They live in Atlanta, and therefore the topic of the massage parlor shooting came up.
The refrain I kept hearing from my wife's uncle, specifically, was that "we know what we see with our own eyes, and it doesn't match what THEY (he meant the establishment media) are trying to tell us".
It was a rather surreal experience arguing about Trump with them as a white dude, with them being the defenders.
Are they expressing their opinions when they correct minorities on what the minority experience is actually like? How does it make sense when the most privileged people the ones mansplaining privilege to others?
What is the difference between holier-than-thou woke elitism that is commonplace in tech versus supremacy? Why is that tech workers from white, white, white suburban backgrounds ( which includes Asians ) where their parents paid for SAT prep courses also the loudest voices in social justice movements while the blue collar minorities I talked to were busy in their hourly work during the pandemic instead of having the privilege of encouraging protests in the middle of a pandemic ?
The data shows minorities including blacks and LGBTQ have trended towards Trump since 2016 while upper class whites have shifted the other way, meanwhile the narrative of racism, inclusivity and toxic righteouness has been escalated by the left. But of course, anyone who supports Trump is racist, dumb, uneducated, when quite possibly they don’t care for him more so than the rejection of white progressive ideals and the white owned tech oligarchy
