Stop AAPI Hate, an organisation that monitors hate crime against the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, released a report in early May showing 3,000 reports of violence against the AAPI community in March 2021 alone – 8.8% of which were aimed at Vietnamese American citizens. Though anti-Asian bigotry has long been a fact of life in the U.S., researchers and advocates say the COVID-19 pandemic, along with former president Trump’s “Chinese virus” and “kung flu” remarks, fueled an increase in targeted hate crimes by around 150% in the last year. In late March, shortly after the Atlanta shooting that killed eight people - six of whom were women of Asian descent - Vu began to pepper his theories with a suggestion that the trend was cooked up by Democrats. Then, they took on anti-Asian hate crimes. Though traffic declined when Trump lost the election, with some listeners likely tired of the same old material, hosts simply shifted their rhetoric to face masks and COVID-19. Trump) can pull in tens of thousands of fans. Republican Facebook pages in Vietnamese, like TIN NÓNG HOA KỲ ( US Hot News) and Những Người Yêu Mến Donald J.Trump ( Lovers of Donald J. media outlets don’t align with their political leanings or broadcast in their first language. The last few years have seen an increase in the ageing Vietnamese diaspora turning to YouTube, Facebook and messaging apps to get their news, as mainstream U.S.
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