Who Counts as Asian, and What Counts as Anti-Asian Hate?
<p>Asfears about the coronavirus increased in early 2020, Asian Americans — especially <a href="https://items.ssrc.org/covid-19-and-the-social-sciences/the-rise-of-anti-asian-hate-in-the-wake-of-covid-19/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Asian American women</a> — began to sound the alarm about a rise in anti-Asian violence, harassment, and hate. But it took the mass murder of six Asian women in Atlanta to catapult anti-Asian violence onto a national platform. On March 16, a 21-year-old White man murdered eight people in three massage parlors in the Atlanta area, including <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/18/us/atlanta-spa-shootings-victims/index.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">four Korean and two Chinese women</a>. The massacre shocked, horrified, and outraged the nation and generated an outpour of empathy.</p>
<p>Asian Americans were still mourning the victims in Atlanta when less than a month later, on April 15, a 19-year-old White man opened fire at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/18/sikh-indianapolis-shooting/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">murdering four Sikhs</a> among a mass killing of eight workers in total. Both massacres were targeted attacks against Asians, yet only the mass murder in Atlanta elicited a massive, sustained, and resounding cry to “stop Asian hate.”</p>
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