Junk stats by another lying-lib "teacher"---Good Lord! EVERYTHING is gonna be "TRUMP's FAULT"!-----'Stop killing us': Attacks on Asian Americans highlight rise in hate incidents amid COVID-19

'Stop killing us': Attacks on Asian Americans highlight rise in hate incidents amid COVID-19

• A series of violent crimes against Asians and Asian Americans has prompted activists and experts to warn that racist rhetoric about the coronavirus pandemic may be fueling a rise in hate incidents.
• 'Stop killing us': Asian Americans decry spike in violent attacks amid pandemic

"It's unclear whether the crimes were racially motivated, but advocates calling for more to be done to address violence against Asian Americans say racist crimes against the community are historically underreported for a variety of reasons.

...Violence against Asian Americans sharply increased in March as COVID-19 began spreading across the country, and some politicians, including former President Donald Trump, blamed China for the pandemic, said Russell Jeung, who created a tool that tracks hate incidents against Asian American Pacific Islander communities called the Stop AAPI Hate tracker.

..."When President Trump began and insisted on using the term 'China virus,' we saw that hate speech really led to hate violence," said Jeung, chair of the Asian American studies department at San Francisco State University. 

"That sort of political rhetoric and that sort of anti-Asian climate has continued to this day."...Read all.