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.
White liberals have an out group bias. At least Asians are neutral towards whites. White liberals hate white people.
Here's the liberal outgroup bias. There's a study that I can't find at the moment that surveyed people of all races and asked what racial makeup that they prefer in a neighborhood, and all races (including asians) preferred having white neighbors.
White liberals, quite literally, hate white people. Which is why they readily buy into the "I hate whitey" crap.
You wouldn’t want to live next to someone who you despise.