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The Los Angeles Police Commission reported last week that anti-Asian hate crimes more than doubled in 2020,

while the group stopped AAPI hate documented nearly 3,000 hate incidents nationwide last year.

The attacks have been brutal and jarring, and for many Asian Americans, achingly familiar.

But alongside the concern and foot patrols formed to protect Asian American neighbors,

there's also been the persistent downplaying of the incidents as racist

and lack of understanding

that they fit into a larger historical pattern.

We look at the impact of this next on Forum.

Join us. This is Forum. I'm Nina Kim. The stories of assault, shunning, and verbal harassment against Asian Americans have continued in the weeks since the brutal and heart-wrenching video surfaced of a fatal attack on an 84-year-old San Francisco man. This, after a year marked by sharp increases in anti-Asian attacks,

but even with the increased attention the incidents are getting this time,

there are also the familiar signs and concerns that racism against Asian Americans

will not be taken seriously.

We unpack this with Washu, a staff writer at The New Yorker,

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