The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes

Re:The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes by hacknat on Monday February 08, 2021 @11:10PM (#26073740)

> The trade war with China has spread to demonization of Asians.

Has it really though? I agree with pretty much everything else you said (though I’m unsure if getting a gun is warranted).

I don’t think a trade war with China will spur too much in the way of anti-Asian sentiment. Americans were generally able to differentiate between Russians and their government during the Cold War.

I’m not saying there won’t be notable stories that pop here or there, but I don’t think this country is actually as Nativist as the press makes it out to be.

We’ll see I guess.

Stay safe!

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Re:The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes by niihau_island on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @06:29AM (#26076239)

> Americans were generally able to differentiate between Russians and their government during the Cold War.

And just 20 years before that the Japanese internment camps happened.

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Re:The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes by adultSwim on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:22PM (#26085729)

Sharp contrast between concentration camps for Japanese and Japanese Americans with the treatment of Germans and Nazi sympathizers

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Re:The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes by hacknat on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @12:45PM (#26092357)

Some German Americans were actually interned[1]. About 1/10th the amount of Japanese that were interned, but also not nothing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans

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Re:The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes by mbg721 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:27PM (#26085748)

That was because the Allies expected the Germans to obey "rules of war" in the European tradition, and knew that the Japanese wouldn't. An American GI would be much happier as a POW of Germany than of Japan.

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Re:The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes by echaozh on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @01:26AM (#26074511)

What do you even mean if you call the US nativist? Native American Supremacist?

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Re:The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes by hacknat on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @12:47PM (#26092385)

"Nativist" is a common historical term in the United States to mean someone who is anti-immigration and (usually) anti-immigrant, and tends to be strongly associated with white supremacy.

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