Print It’s a lesson that we’ve not only had the past year to learn but hundreds of years. Directing our anger, fear, confusion, lack of information, or just plain pandemic exhaustion at marginalized groups of people is both harmful and counterproductive. Over the past year, there have been nearly 3,000 reported cases of anti-Asian attacks in the U.S., related to bigoted and incorrect rhetoric around COVID-19. Recently, those acts of racism have been on the rise again. “These recent incidents are stark reminders that urgent action must be taken to protect our AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) community from hate, discrimination and violence,” Russel Jeung, professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University and a co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate, said in a statement last month.