Anti-Asian Hate Remains A Problem Even When it Drops From the Headlines
On February 13, Christina Lee was followed into her Chinatown apartment by a 25-year-old man. He stabbed her more than 40 times, killing her.
On May 11, a 36-year-old man targeted a hair salon in the heart of Dallas’ Koreatown. He fired approximately 13 shots, injuring three women. Authorities say the suspect was motivated by delusions about Asian people.
On March 16, 2021, a 21-year-old man who said he had a “sex addiction” went on a killing rampage, targeting three Asian-owned spas. First, he shot and killed four people – two of whom were Asian women – at Young's Asian Massage in Cherokee County, Georgia. He then drove to Atlanta and killed three more Asian women at Gold Spa. He fatally shot another woman at Aromatherapy Spa across the street.
The pandemic provoked a nation-wide surge in anti-Asian violence, reportedly reaching 100 incidents per day in 2020. However, this mass hate epidemic — while increasingly violent and life-threatening — is nothing new for the AAPI community. Sexual violence, in particular, is all too familiar to Asian women, yet seems to barely register in the public consciousness. Though time has passed since anti-Asian violence was consistently in the news, we must still pay attention, because the impact is devastating and deadly.
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