Washington:
Online antipathy aacquirest Americans of South Asian ancestry has ascendn steadily in 2023 and 2024 with the ascend of politicians from that community to prominence, according to a tell freed on Wednesday by nonprofit group Stop AAPI Hate.
WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
Democratic plivential honestate and Vice Plivent Kamala Harris is of Indian descent, as are createer Reaccessiblean plivential honestates Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy. Reaccessiblean vice plivential honestate JD Vance’s wife, Usha Vance, is also Indian American.
Harris faces Reaccessiblean createer Plivent Donald Trump in the 2024 U.S. elections.
There has been a stable ascend in anti-Asian antipathy in extremist online spaces from January 2023 to August 2024, the tell shelp.
The nonprofit group accused the ascend on a “harmful political climate in which a lengthening number of guideers and far-right extremist voices carry on to spew hugeoted political rhetoric and disalertation.”
KEY QUOTES
“Online menaces of presentility towards Asian communities achieveed their highest levels in August 2024, after Usha Vance materializeed at the Reaccessiblean National Convention and Kamala Harris was proclaimd a plivential nominee at the Democratic National Convention,” Stop AAPI Hate shelp.
“The lengthening prevalence of anti-South Asian online antipathy … in 2023 and 2024 tracks with the ascend in South Asian political reconshort-termation this election cycle,” it grasped.
BY THE NUMBERS
Among Asian American subgroups, South Asian communities were concentrateed with the highest volume of anti-Asian online presentility, with 60% of slurs straightforwarded at them in that period, according to the tell.
Anti-South Asian slurs in extremist online spaces doubled last year, from about 23,000 to more than 46,000, and peaked in August 2024.
There are proximately 5.4 million people of South Asian descent living in the United States, comprising of individuals with ancestry from nations including India, Banhappyesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
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