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Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag... by brippalcharrid on Sunday February 26, 2023 @07:04PM (#34951208)
> Trump was demanding that "China pay" and people were beating up random Asians who were just walking down the street

Unfortunately, random Asian people getting brutalized when they're going about their daily business has been a long-standing problem in a number of cities. Is there any evidence to suggest that the people perpetrating these crimes were even aware of Trump's words, let alone motivated by them, rather than this just fitting the usual pattern of criminality combined with a generalized ethnic resentment?

Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag... by autoexec on Sunday February 26, 2023 @07:44PM (#34951572)
> Unfortunately, random Asian people getting brutalized when they're going about their daily business has been a long-standing problem in a number of cities.

It increased after the pandemic (https://abcnews.go.com/US/hate-crimes-asians-rose-76-2020-am... and https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-hate-crimes-against-c...). It's hard to get data on people's motivations for crimes, but we can very clearly see drastic shifts in trends and this was trending higher than the baseline "generalized ethnic resentment" you'd expect to see normally.

Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag... by dangwhy on Monday February 27, 2023 @12:20PM (#34959139)
https://www.justice.gov/crs/highlights/2020-hate-crimes-stat...

increases

anti black - 50%

anti white - 30%

anti asian - 75%