Over the past year there has been a widespread outcry for an end to the anti-Asian violence that data says has become increasingly common in part because of the coronavirus pandemic. “The virus does not discriminate.”Trump used the phrase “China virus” on Fox News the same night as the Atlanta killings. The language was viewed as insensitive considering that the largest mass lynching in U.S. history was against Chinese immigrants and motivated by anti-Asian racism. But neither spoke of the rhetoric that many of their fellow Republicans use that researchers say leads to violence. ADResearchers later found that Trump’s tweet led to a significant increase in the use of #chinesevirus as well as other anti-Asian phrases.

Source: Washington Post March 19, 2021 19:33 UTC