Activists shouted “Stop Asian hate” and “Asians are not a virus” at weekend protests in the U.S. over the killings in Georgia on Tuesday of eight people, six of them women of Asian descent.
The endless list of disparities has made solidarity elusive for Asian-Americans, but the events of the past year may be uniting people for a new reason: fear.
On platforms like Telegram and 4chan, racist memes and posts about Asian-Americans have deepened anxieties and fostered dehumanization.
In China and South Korea, debate over the violence in Georgia has played out with far less intensity than it has in the U.S.
The New Yorker writer Jiayang Fan writes that to live through this period as an Asian-American is to feel trapped in a tragedy while being denied the legitimacy of being an American.
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