<story><title>The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes</title><url>https://www.thecut.com/2021/02/the-us-is-seeing-a-massive-spike-in-anti-asian-hate-crimes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>babesh</author><text>There is semi-hidden animosity between the black and some Asian communities.&lt;p&gt;Chinese immigrants are often the ones first moving into and then buying out people in black neighborhoods.&lt;p&gt;Asian kids do disproportionately well in urban schools. Lowell High School is moving from a scoring based system to a lottery. Asian parents see this as unfair while black parents see the previous system as unfair.&lt;p&gt;Chinese are traditionally not seen as fighting back. Some criminals see elderly as easy marks due to the tendency to carry cash and due to their frailty.&lt;p&gt;The trade war with China has spread to demonization of Asians.&lt;p&gt;BLM riots and the lack of persecution and then the defund the police emboldened criminal activity including physical attacks.&lt;p&gt;This cycle of animosity and violence last occurred roughly  30 years ago.&lt;p&gt;I’m getting a gun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ipqk</author><text>Semi-hidden? Tensions between black &amp;amp; korean-americans was a huge part of the 1992 LA Riots.</text></comment>
<story><title>The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes</title><url>https://www.thecut.com/2021/02/the-us-is-seeing-a-massive-spike-in-anti-asian-hate-crimes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>babesh</author><text>There is semi-hidden animosity between the black and some Asian communities.&lt;p&gt;Chinese immigrants are often the ones first moving into and then buying out people in black neighborhoods.&lt;p&gt;Asian kids do disproportionately well in urban schools. Lowell High School is moving from a scoring based system to a lottery. Asian parents see this as unfair while black parents see the previous system as unfair.&lt;p&gt;Chinese are traditionally not seen as fighting back. Some criminals see elderly as easy marks due to the tendency to carry cash and due to their frailty.&lt;p&gt;The trade war with China has spread to demonization of Asians.&lt;p&gt;BLM riots and the lack of persecution and then the defund the police emboldened criminal activity including physical attacks.&lt;p&gt;This cycle of animosity and violence last occurred roughly  30 years ago.&lt;p&gt;I’m getting a gun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>refurb</author><text>Pretty reasonable take overall.&lt;p&gt;People shouldn’t forget about the African-American and Korean animosity during the LA riots.  This stuff goes way back.</text></comment>