Americans have been killing Asians in and out of US for over a century. American boys have been repeatedly sent over across Pacific where they raped, brutalized and harass Asian women then demean them as sexualized objects. Even anti-war movie Full Metal Jacket popularized dis👇
US occupation of Japan, Korea, Vietnam and Philippines spawn entire sex industry catering to American GIs. GI on R&R frm Vietnam War kicked off Thailand's sex tourism industry. This only made American males feel entitled to Asian women's bodies
While American men hypersexualize and fetish Asian women, Asian men are emasculated in American culture. Both Asian men and women caricatured and made fun of. It remains acceptable in US to make Asian jokes in public because there's virtually no consequences
1st gen immigrants remain the largest group of Asians in US. They keep their heads down because most of them working hard just to survive and provide better future for their kids. Americans see this as sign of meekness and a free pass to denigrate them.
Why there're so many attacks on Asians in US from all different ethnic groups? Because there's little consequences. Permissiveness to treat Asians as nonpersons permeates frm top to bottom of US society. COVID only brought the hostility into open.
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