Asian hate on the rise

Words matter: A participant at a vigil in Pittsburgh for the mostly Asian victims of shootings in Atlanta. Commentators point to Trump’s remarks like ‘China virus’ and ‘Kung flu’ as setting the tone for discriminatory attitudes and increased violence towards Asian-Americans. — AP

I LIKE to be rational when I read the news. I know what it’s like to read about something horrible happening in a particular country and imagine that the entire country is aflame.

When we read news about civil wars and violence in a country, most of us tend to neglect to look at maps to see where exactly these things are happening. In some cases, the conflict is happening in a particular part of that state and not where you would normally visit. This was true of the conflict in Sri Lanka decades ago that was confined mostly in the north, or in Nigeria where the Boko Haram are running rampage also in the north.