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SoupAsians, especially Chinese/Japanese/Korean people, have an interesting standing in many places outside of asia. They still experience a tonne of racism, but for some reason they don’t get nearly the violent hate that other people of colour get.
Racism will say that Black people are criminals, latinos are lazy, and Middle Easteners are terrorists but most of what asian people seem to get are comments about weird food, good grades, and racist caricatures. They’re treated as this white-adjacent group. It won’t save them, but it does sorta explain why that kid is there.
Now, the black and hispanic people who are part of ICE can get absolute rat-fucked a million ways to Sunday because they’re there for the love of the game at that point. Everyone in ICE is a bare-minimum terrible but holy shit, the fuck do they think they’re doing?
Asian American and Pacific Islander hate crimes have sadly been on the rise since Covid, although I think in the last few years it’s flattened out a little bit, but Asians are definitely not immune to violent hate crimes anymore.
nor that hate crimes against asians are taken seriously, its almost laughed off because of stereotypes and the news stop reporting it all together… if a black, white girl, or a semetic person from israel they would be blasted on national news all the time.
vaultdweller013Which I’ve always found weird because I’m from SoCal and the shit I’ve heard some folks say would make Cotton Hill whistle in appreciation. Seriously some folks HATE Asians, usually a cultural leftover from the 1800s, WW2, Korea, and Vietnam in my areas case but still. Only guess as to why that is is because as you noted stereotypes and the fact that it’s not as historically routed across the US as say anti-black, anti-hispanic, anti-Irish, or antisemitism.