Abstract
About 3 weeks ago, a man went on a rampage and killed eight people at three spas in the Atlanta area. Six of the victims were women of Asian descent. The attack was a glaring example of increased violence and racism against Asian people in the US since the beginning of the pandemic. Stop AAPI Hate is a nonprofit organization devoted to tracking and responding to discrimination against Asian people. Since early 2020, its reporting center has been tracking hate incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the US. Of the 3,795 reports of hate incidents that Stop AAPI Hate received between March 19, 2020, and Feb. 28, 2021, 11.1% involved physical violence. Another 20.5% involved shunning, and 68.1% involved verbal harassment. People of Chinese heritage were the targets of 42.2% of the hate incidents reported to Stop AAPI Hate, followed by people of the following ethnicities: Koreans, at
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