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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by naasking on Monday June 12, 2023 @09:49AM (#36293387)
Looks like there was a general increase in complaints as lockdowns eased. From the data, there were upticks in anti-jewish, anti-gay, anti-muslim and more. Asians still saw relatively more of an uptick than other motivations.
Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by throwawaymaths on Monday June 12, 2023 @10:01AM (#36293550)
That could be an increase in reporting. After all you'd expect the uptick to happen in 2020-- it was COVID-19 after all.

Also worth to know that anti-asian hate was also a narrative pushed by the CPC to label things like supporting Hong Kong democracy protests or criticizing uighur genocide as "anti-asian hate", which happened after the CPC noticed the effectiveness of BLM protests in sowing us discord (mid-2020) so to trust any stats post 2020 it would at least need to segregate the two use cases.

Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by zolland on Monday June 12, 2023 @01:21PM (#36297246)
This is maybe more interesting.

Anti-Asian 2019: 0.2%

Anti-Asian 2020: 10%

Anti-Asian 2021: 25%

EDIT: Regarding an uptick in anti-jewish etc.

Anti-Jewish 2019: 57%

Anti-Jewish 2020: 43%

Anti-Jewish 2021: 37%

Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by naasking on Monday June 12, 2023 @03:24PM (#36299539)
I take it these are percentages of all complaints? Because the number of complaints for anti-Jewish hate crimes was 116 in 2020, but 198 in 2021, so a definite increase, but hate crime overall basically doubled as well, so the relative amount to the total is lower.
Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by zolland on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @06:41AM (#36308192)
yes that is what the trend I posted shows.
Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by account42 on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @10:08AM (#36310431)
> complaints for hate crimes

> hate crime

These are not the same thing and especially when comparing over time you need to take into account how the definitions for the categories themselves change.