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.
I've seen kind of the opposite.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say your friend is probably third generation, MAYBE second.
Virtually every first and second generation asian I've talked to despise blacks. Too much theft, too much murder, and too much stolen opportunity. They see all the tax money going to blacks being wasted and lament that they can't use it to build or expand a business.
Even the third and on generations seem really hesitant.
I think your friend is a pragmatic who knows exactly how bad it is but sees whites as the losing party and so latches onto the grift and the lies as a means of self preservation. They think, "Maybe if I speak now and fall in line I'll gain more time or they might not come after me."
This is I believe a very good thing for us.
All we need is a handful of white champions unafraid of the labels to force through a white awakening. It's already set and primed. As soon as it does so many centrists and leftists will flip sides immediately.