Stop being racist to Asians says the LAtimes- 800 Asian hate crimes?

I'll link the fluff piece below but I'll quote the important parts for those that don't want to give them clicks.

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Wearing their masks, Donalene Ferrer and two other generations of family members were walking along an Oceanside neighborhood in April when a car pulled up and a woman yelled: “You started the corona!”

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Hate incidents directed at Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are exploding this year, according to advocates pushing for California Gov. Gavin Newsom to boost funding for programs fighting bias and add a cultural representative to his new COVID-19 task force.

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Supporters and organizers of Stop AAPI Hate have documented 832 incidents across the Golden State in the last three months, with assaults and verbal tirades “becoming the norm” since the pandemic started, instigated by people following the inflammatory rhetoric of the nation’s highest-profile leader, they say.

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These include a stranger, later identified by police as Lena Hernandez of Long Beach, accosting an Asian woman who was exercising at Wilson Park, telling her to “go back to whatever... Asian country you belong in.” On June 10, the same day at the same location, Hernandez also allegedly berated an Asian man who had parked close to her Honda, calling him “China man” and adding: “You know what, you need to go home.”

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“Go back to Japan... We are going to bomb your store if you don’t listen and we know where you live.”

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WTF did Japan do? This is how I know this is fake news

Why are there so many racists in California?

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Advocates had asked Newsom for $1.4 million to fund research on how the coronavirus is affecting AAPI health in connection to racism

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Finally we get to what it was really about. We need money for our cause because of racism.