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 can see one would think they would do it to further their leftist narrative but the U S. has been classifying people from India under the umbrella term of "Asians" for decades.
As ignorant as people can be with cultural disparity, (dumbasses still can't tell the difference between China and Japan) India is so incredibly different, I'm not sure even the dumbest of fucks would confuse one for someone who is Chinese.