Many Asian Americans cheered the historic success of “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” But hate crimes targeting Asian Americans are at a three-decade high.
On Tuesday, President Biden visited Monterey Park, Calif. — just 15 miles from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, where the Academy Awards were held — to meet with the families of victims of the shooting in January that left 11 dead during a Lunar New Year festival at a dance studio in a largely Asian immigrant community. The alleged assailant is also of Asian descent.
“When I think about where we are now … there’s a feeling of over-stimulus and two parallel universes crammed into a single brain,” said Yang, who last year published “Rise: A Pop History of Asian America From the Nineties to Now” with co-authors Phil Yu and Philip Wang. Stop AAPI Hate, a California-based group that began tracking hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders amid the pandemic, has tallied more than 11,000 complaints of experiences allegedly involving hate since 2020, including assaults, racial slurs and acts of discrimination and prejudice, via a public reporting hotline. Those reports are largely anecdotal, and many are not considered criminal acts, but activists say the numbers reflect the climate of hostility.
“It’s hard to say whether we’re making progress in part because this an ever-changing landscape, whether because of the spy balloon or other events that happen on the world stage that we can’t control,” he said. “It’s going to unfortunately be very difficult on members of Congress like Judy Chu and others who care about these issues.
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