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Attacks on Asian-Americans?

Seems like it became "a thing" maybe two or three months ago, and has increased at a mind-blowing pace.

My question is this: Have the attacks against Asians suddenly become a criminal epidemic, or has our "honest and unbiased" American media just decided to seek out and report every single incident of this nature while ignoring a lot of similar attacks that don't involve Asian victims?

The massage parlor murders last month, horrific as that event was, does not appear to have been racially motivated. Apparently the guy was some kind of religious nutjob with a so-called sex addiction, and his psycho rampage was driven by a misguided belief that massage parlors were to blame for his "sexual sins" rather than his own inability to control his urges. Yet that's become the cornerstone event of the anti-Asian violence reporting that has exploded recently - referenced in nearly every news story on that topic.

Here's an example: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/poli… Some wacko in Charlotte, NC used a sign post to vandalize an Asian-owned convenience store while yelling Asian slurs. Six months ago, would this have been a NATIONAL news story? Here's another: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/nyreg… Horrible. Inexcusable. But the fact is this type of senseless attack happens almost EVERY DAY on the streets of NYC - perpetrated by, and against, people of any ethnicity. Especially since Mayor Bill "Dumbo" De Blasio was elected.

It seems to me that the media is trying to create a narrative that says America has become a threatening place for Asian immigrants and even Asian-American citizens, and it's all due to China's complicity in releasing Covid on the world, which is overtly suggested in many reports. We've known for over a year that China was responsible, and that they acted to cover it up rather than be forthcoming and save lives. So why have the perpetrators of these attacks waited this long to take their revenge? Another weird thing is that in almost every story I've heard, the attacks weren't directed specifically at Chinese people, just Asians in general. In the stories I referenced above, the store owners were South Koreans and the woman beaten up in NYC was Filipino.

Full disclosure: I'm a right-wing conservative Republican, and an unapologetic Trump supporter. CJ Kent or twentyfive would most certainly tell you I'm a nut. But I assure you, I'm not half the right-wing nut as some people I know personally. However, not one of my nutty friends thinks that all Asians are Chinese, nor do they think Chinese people represent or support the Chi-Com government. They see them like Castro-hating Cubans - viewed more as victims, certainly not co-conspirators.

So again, my question: Are we to believe that Americans have gone batshit crazy, thinking any and all Asians are Chinese, believing the Chinese people are responsible for the actions of their dictatorship government, and now they've taken it upon themselves to punish Asians with random acts of violence? Or is it our so-called media creating a narrative they think will reflect negatively on people of a conservative mindset, garner sympathy for the Chinese government and, as always, present America as an inherently racist country?

Fire away.