It sounds like you had a pretty rough childhood. Like I said, I grew up Iowa (Iowa City) and Michigan (Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor), so I know racism first hand. I have been in one single fight with a kid growing up. It was over the use of the word "ch1nk" and that was in 10th grade. I was a wrestler in high school so even though he was bigger, he got dropped, controlled, then face-pounded. We both got a one-day in-school suspension. You sound like you fared far worse than me. On the other hand, my wife who is Vietnamese and grew up in San Jose, California told me she faced no racism of any kind in school or as an adult, nor did she ever witness racism against other Asian Americans, in person at least.Again, your experience is your own. You in no way have the authority to extrapolate your getting sh1t-stomped over and over as a kid to the rest of us in this country. Is there widespread racism in this country against Asian Americans, and worse during the pandemic? Of this I have no doubt. But your claim that almost every Asian American has experienced an actual hate crime is stupid and ridiculous, and reflects your own worldview pounded into you over a lifetime of racial abuse. I didn't get as much of that as you, and my wife didn't get any at all. Our view of the US are not as garrishly surreal as yours.
