Senate Makes Move to Stop Asian Hate

 

This week the Senate decided to take a stand on the issue of Asian hate crimes. A bill was passed 94-1 to combat these hate crimes. Over the past year, there has been a spike in anti-Asian hate crimes. Many have attributed this to Trump blaming the pandemic on China, and referring to COVID-19 as the "Chinese virus". While the U.S. has almost always harbored negative feelings towards China. But Trump's attitude most definitely added fuel to the fire. It is pretty amazing how fast the Senate got to work on drafting a bill and ultimately passing it. While bills on gun control and protecting black people seemingly die on the floor time and time again. It is still good that something was done because hate crimes are especially heinous and need to be dealt with. But I do not think more policing and "education" is going to do anything. Bigots usually do not want to be educated and the people spreading harmful rhetoric are rarely ever truly "ignorant". But, this bill seems to be a step in the right direction. And I'm all for progress.