Anti-Asian racism and violent attacks on older Asians have only increased in recent months. Hate speech and violence against the AAPI community have been rampant since COVID-19 became news in the United States. In February 2021, attacks on older Asian Americans in particular increased. Unfortunately, many of these incidents have not been reported and do not appear to the mainstream media.
According to a UN reports:
Racial violence and other incidents against Asian Americans have reached alarming levels in the US since COVID19 began. Chinese Americans and other Asian-American citizens, including Korean, Japanese, Filipino, Vietnamese and Burmese, have faced racial, xenophobic attacks. In March 2020, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that hate crimes against Asian Americans related to COVID-19 were likely to increase. In fact, over the 8 weeks from March to May 2020, more than 1,800 racist incidents have been reported in the United States against Asian Americans. This has a very negative impact on Asian-born immigrants. The attacks include physical assault, vandalism, verbal abuse, denial of access to services and public places.
According to reports, the victims were spat on, banned from public transport, discriminated against in the workplace, avoided, beaten, stabbed, and insulted as carriers of coronavirus. Women are reported to have been molested twice as often as men. The following is an exhaustive list of anti-Asian racist and xenophobic incidents against Asian Americans, reported by those affected by the above circumstances.
Many blame the previous president Donald Trump and his administration for this violence; Trump and several other members of his White House quickly embraced racist and xenophobic anti-Asian rhetoric about infectious disease, repeatedly calling the COVID-19 "China virus" and "Wum virus." In an October statement, Manjusha Kulkarni, Executive Director of the Asia Pacific Policy and Planning Board, said: "Our data and evidence confirm that Asian Americans face increasing racial and xenophobic attacks, prompted by the rhetoric of the president and other government leadership." Has begun measures to try to repel. In January, the president called on Asian American and Pacific Islander communities during the epidemic.
Signed an executive order denying direct discrimination.
Kulkarni told NBC News that what president Biden outlined is very promising and she said " I think that's just the beginning. There's still a lot to do.".
