"So many of us have experienced it, sometimes for the first time in our lives"

America is seeing a rise in anti-Asian racism and violence.  Of course, it's nothing new:

"Among these attacks, there are notable patterns: Women were more likely than men to say they were targeted, several assaults involved children, and harassment was more likely to occur at retail stores and pharmacies since people have been limiting their activities during the pandemic.

'So many of us have experienced it, sometimes for the first time in our lives,' says Manjusha Kulkarni, the executive director of the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council, a group that helped set up this tracker. 'It makes it much harder to go to the grocery store, to take a walk, to be outside our homes.'

This rise in anti-Asian harassment has occurred as the US continues to grapple with Covid-19, and it follows months of xenophobic rhetoric by former President Donald Trump, who frequently used racist names for the virus and associated it with Asian Americans.

The broader uptick in racism, however, isn’t just fueled by the pandemic. Although the uncertainty of the outbreak — coupled with the former president’s rhetoric — has amplified it, this prejudice is rooted in longstanding biases toward Asian Americans that have persisted since some of the earliest immigrants came to the US generations ago."

Among the many pathologies of Trump supporters, the one that's always jumped out at me is how quick they are to blame other people for their own anxieties and personal deficiencies as human beings.