{"id":118242,"date":"2021-03-24T01:14:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T01:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=118242"},"modified":"2021-03-24T01:14:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T01:14:53","slug":"more-than-trump-attacks-on-asian-americans-surge-along-with-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/more-than-trump-attacks-on-asian-americans-surge-along-with-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018More than Trump\u2019: Attacks on Asian-Americans surge along with COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington: <\/strong>As the representative for New York\u2019s 40th state assembly district, Ron Kim has seen the rise of anti-Asian harassment and violence up close since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Kim\u2019s district includes Flushing, a bustling neighbourhood in Queens that is renowned as the home of New York\u2019s most authentic Chinese food. More than six in 10 of his constituents are of Asian heritage, mostly Chinese and Korean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsian-Americans have been shoved and attacked in the downtown area of my district,\u201d says Kim, the only Korean-American ever elected to the New York\u2019s state legislature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWalking around the streets or on the subway you feel a lot of tension and anxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.317%2C$multiply_0.4431%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_263%2C$y_222\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/06d1c517c4a9c0cc20c97e0067d92a86e77b9266\"><\/p>\n<p><span>A child holds signs during an AAPI Rally Against Hate in New York on Sunday.<\/span><cite class=\"ojLwA\"><span>Credit:<\/span>Bloomberg<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>When Americans began feeling concerned about the coronavirus last February, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio headed to a Chinese restaurant in Flushing to show his support for the Asian-American community.<\/p>\n<p>Restaurants in the area were already reporting a drop-off in customers because of misguided fears that people could catch the virus from Chinese cooking.<\/p>\n<p>De Blasio would later be ridiculed for encouraging people to gather in restaurants just as the virus was beginning to spread throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_1%2C$multiply_0.3541%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_745%2C$y_554\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/dd6c901002398dbe0d0732f483620241631457dd\"><\/p>\n<p><span>New York &#8211; home to large Asian-American communities in neighbourhoods like Flushing &#8211; has seen a spike in hate incidents since the pandemic began.<\/span><cite class=\"ojLwA\"><span>Credit:<\/span>Will Steacy<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>But he was right to be worried about growing discrimination against Asian-Americans. Former president Donald Trump did not help by calling COVID-19 the \u201cChina virus\u201d and the \u201ckung flu\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Stop Asian and Pacific Islander Hate group released a report last week showing it had recorded 3800 anti-Asian hate incidents over the past year. The vast majority of the reported incidents were verbal harassment and shunning, but there were also hundreds of reports of physical violence.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest spike occurred in New York City, which prides itself on being a progressive and multicultural melting pot. The attacks have continued even as coronavirus cases and hospitalisations have plummeted over recent months.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.189%2C$multiply_0.4431%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/97ac85dc33e1d062487debd65f93f0195f367729\"><\/p>\n<p><span>More than 500 of the 3800 hate crimes reported by AAPI came in the first two months of 2021.<\/span><cite class=\"ojLwA\"><span>Credit:<\/span>Bloomberg<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>In February there were four attacks against Asian-American women in New York on a single day. Two women were attacked on subways; one was pepper-sprayed while walking down the street; another was shoved to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The owner of Xian Famous Foods, a popular New York chain serving western Chinese noodles and dumplings, revealed in February that he had started closing earlier so his staff members could get home safely. Two of Jason Wang\u2019s employees were punched in the face in unprovoked attacks \u2014 something he said had never occurred before the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have even young Asian Americans who refuse to leave their apartments in fear that they might be a target of a hate crime, that they might be spat on,\u201d Kim says. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of trauma and stress, and it\u2019s not just older Asian Americans who feel it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet until recently, the rise in hate crimes against Asian-Americans had received relatively little attention. The issue was eclipsed last year by the Black Lives Matter protests following George Floyd\u2019s death in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.131%2C$multiply_0.4431%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/7cff3d4656379a7044a946a864a3e7e49ff6c769\"><\/p>\n<p><span>Demonstrators hold signs during a press conference calling to a halt on violence against Asian Americans in Los Angeles on Monday.<\/span><cite class=\"ojLwA\"><span>Credit:<\/span>AP<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>That changed last week when a white man shot dead six Asian women working in massage parlours in Atlanta, Georgia. The shootings helped drive protesters across the country to rally in solidarity with Asian-Americans over the weekend. <em>Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/em> actress Sandra Oh attended a rally in Philadelphia where she urged Asian American protesters to chant: \u201cI am proud to be Asian! I belong here!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kim says the shootings in Atlanta are an imperfect example of the broader phenomenon of anti-Asian attacks. The shooter, a white evangelical Christian, has denied that race was a motivating factor in the attacks, telling police he was driven to kill by a sense of shame about his addiction to sex.<\/p>\n<p>Kim adds that anti-Asian attacks in his district have often been carried out by members of other minority communities, complicating the racial dynamics of the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re seeing a lot of young black and brown teenagers attacking older Asian adults,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a lot of work to do to let people in these communities know that Asian Americans are not the ones that caused their grief and their economic distress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cViolence happens when we have man-made poverty, when we have extreme concentrated wealth, when we have a lack of social mobility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As much as he disliked Trump\u2019s inflammatory \u201cChina virus\u201d rhetoric, the Democrat says it\u2019s too easy to heap all the blame on the former president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t just put on a band-aid, blame Trump and call it a day,\u201d Kim says. \u201cThat\u2019s not good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the first congressional hearing into anti-Asian hate crimes in three decades last week, historian Erika Lee said the recent upsurge could not be dismissed as \u201crandom acts perpetrated by deranged individuals\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are an expression of our country\u2019s long history of systemic racism targeting Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders,\u201d she said, pointing to the lynchings of Chinese-Americans in the 19th century and the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve heard in the past 24 hours many describe anti-Asian discrimination and racial violence as un-American. 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