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Nearly half of hate-related incidents targeting Asian Americans since the start of the
coronavirus pandemic occurred in the state of
California, according to a report from the Stop AAPI Hate Reporting Center released Tuesday.
The organization said it received
3,795 firsthand accounts of hate incidents nationwide from March 19, 2020, to Feb. 28, 2021. Of that total, 68.1% of the incidents were classified as verbal harassment, while 20.5% were cases of "shunning" of Asian-Americans and 11.1% were cases of alleged physical assault.
States around the country have reported a spike in violence and hate-related incidents toward Asian-Americans during the pandemic. Of the reported incidents, 1,691, or roughly 45%, occurred in California while 517, or about 14%, occurred in New York and 158, or about 4%, occurred in Washington state. No other state accounted for more than 3% of reported incidents.
"The number of hate incidents reported to our center represent only a fraction of the number of hate incidents that actually occur, but it does show how vulnerable Asian Americans are to discrimination, and the types of discrimination they face," the authors of the Stop AAPI Hate Reporting Center's study said.
Comment: It says a lot about the nature of Twitter that it is not removing actual harmful content of its own volition, while also banning people whose politics don't fall in line with the establishment.
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