The Democrats have alienated Asian-Americans with policies like affirmative action for years.
COVID comes along and despite the media trying to play up violence against Asians early on, it fizzled out because nothing was really happening. But somehow now, two years after COVID hit the US, it's all about Asians being attacked because of it and how the Democrats will protect them with legislation. Now that a Democrat is president and they need to be able to push their regressive policies without Asians calling them out for it.
And people are going to fall for it.
It’s more than that. As we’re coming out of lockdown the realities of de-centralized manufacturing and the literal-tyranny of the CCP are inching close to the mainstream. This whole Asian thing is quite literally a corporate marketing campaign so they can reposition any criticism of China as racist. Every publicly traded company on earth is desperate to crack that nut and they’re trying to make sure they’re not canceled for it.
Nailed it. This is a propaganda frame to diminish future critics of China, signaling that some bad China-related shit is on the horizon.