Anti-Asian sentiment has been ingrained and codified in US law countless times. Not only must we condemn individual acts of hate and #StopAsianHate. But we must also acknowledge it’s been a problem the US has ignored for over a century.
Asian people are literally being hunted in America. And the media refuses to call these killings a hate crime all while people continue to insist that asians "don't experience REAL race issues." I'm so angry & sad for the AAPI community. Media: It's time to STEP the hell UP.
Especially white Americans don’t like to hear it, but we got to the “coup” stage of fascism because we didn’t impeach at the concentration camps, cages, family separations, beatings, gassing, disappearances. Fascism’s a pattern of escalation and nobody tried to really break it