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Protesters condemn Asian hate crimes at the shooting site in Atlanta, USA.▶ Click here to enlarge the view
“The Atlanta shooting is a legitimate revenge for the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19)!”
It appears that racial hatred cultivated in some places online is behind the rapid rise in incidents of violence against Asians in the United States, including the Atlanta shootings that killed Korean women.
According to the New York Times (NYT) on the 20th (local time), conversations with anti-Asian groups have increased since last November, focusing on Telegram, the far-right online bulletin board ‘4chan’ and the extreme bulletin. right ‘The Donald’.
After Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden won the presidential election at the time, posts stating that President Biden would become a “ puppet of the Chinese Communist Party, ” and unfounded hatred spread on bulletin boards. towards Asians appears to have increased.
A survey by Rutgers University’s Network Proliferation Research Institute (NCRI) found that in December last year, insults against Asians such as ‘Kung Flu’ on Telegram, Pochan and The Donald increased 65% from the average of the last 11 months.
Anti-Asian sentiment began to turn into a ‘second epidemic’ online after last spring, the start of the Corona 19 pandemic.
Robert Aaron Long Suspect in Serial Shooting in Atlanta, USAIn the second outbreak, incitement to violence against Asian Americans became commonplace and began to lead to actual incidents of violence, the NYT analyzed.
A telegram channel published a photo of a dog with a gun to its head that read: “The Philippines is not Asian, because Asians have good hair.”
Hundreds of people participated in a group that was opened on Telegram in January this year, including images that exaggerate the Asian appearance, memes that demean Asians who eat dog meat (photos or videos that are popular on the Internet) and violence against the locals during the Vietnam War. War. I uploaded photos of the US Army soldiers.
In particular, immediately after the shootings in Atlanta, the Telegram group asked: ‘Are you shocked by the recent attacks on Asians?’, And 84% of the majority responded as “a just revenge against Corona 19.”
NCRI analyst Alex Goldenberg told the NYT that “the increase in anti-Asian comments online means an increased risk of real events targeting them.”
It is analyzed that the false claims that China created and spread Corona 19 with biological weapons and the inflammatory comments of some politicians, including former President Donald Trump, have had a great influence on hatred towards Asians.
For example, the day Congressman Paul Gosa (ROC) tweeted “Chinese virus” in March of last year, the term “Chinese virus” skyrocketed 650% on Twitter, and the next day it was estimated to have increased. by 800%. .
According to media analytics company Signal Labs, since March last year, a whopping 8 million cases of anti-Asian mentions, mostly false, have been posted online.
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