Based on public surveys, there are around 250,000 hate crimes in the US each year. A media outlet could easily pick out a dozen of these on any given year and hype them up like it's a new trend, even if it's not at all.
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Are you saying there's not an increase in hate crimes against Asians? Because I read on Vox that there was and now I'm confused
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There is a huge surge in attacks on Asian Americans in the last year since Trump called Covid the China virus and he did again on TV last night
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researchers have worked to quantify this! a study from cal state - san bernardino, for example, looked at 16 large US cities and found an almost 150 percent spike between 2019 and 2020https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/anti-asian-hate-crimes-increased-nearly-150-2020-mostly-n-n1260264 …
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it's worth noting, too, that a number of the more than 3,700 incidents documented by stop aapi hate are covid-specific, so they represent an uptick in pandemic-related verbal and physical harassment, which wasn't happening before the pandemic https://secureservercdn.net/104.238.69.231/a1w.90d.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/210312-Stop-AAPI-Hate-National-Report-.pdf …
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