To Combat Anti-Asian Hate Crimes, We Have to Call Them What They Are Discrimination against Asian people in this country has long been minimized, if not outright ignored. Many factors contribute to this erasure, including xenophobia, which casts Asian Americans within the “perpetual foreigner” stereotype—people who will never fit into the United States—as well as the model-minority myth, which presents all Asian people as “crazy rich,” perfect at academics, aligned with whiteness, and high-achieving with minimal effort. The model-minority myth is used by many people to assert that if Black and Brown people worked as hard as their model-minority counterparts, then they would be as well off as white people. According to a study published in