Antisocial behavior, unleashed by the former president, continues to bedevil Americans who disagree with the pet ideas of the right wing.
Trumpists consider Covid vaccinations and face masks to be affronts to their way of life. In California, a parent picking up his elementary-school daughter late from school noticed that teachers in a teacher's lounge nearby weren't wearing masks. He accused the staff of "conspiracy" and claimed children "are being treated like animals." He was yelling at the female principal when a male teacher decided to stand up for her. The teacher wound up in the hospital, getting stitches for cuts on his face.
Asian Americans are still being blamed for Covid, too -- "the Chinese virus" in Trump's words. Incidents ranging from being coughed and spat on, verbal harassment, and outright physical assault continue. In 2020, starting in mid-March, there were 4,548 incidents reported; in the first half of 2021, there were another 4,533, according to the organization Stop AAPI Hate.
Then there are death threats. Anthony Fauci and his family have received them, among others. But the pandemic hadn't even begun when Maxine Waters, the longtime congresswoman from Los Angeles, received a death threat from a bigot who turned out to be a 71-year-old White man. “We will successfully put a bullet through your head. -+KKK,” his note said.
Waters wasn't fazed. "Waters is used to these types of threats since she spoke out against Donald Trump’s White House victory and has refused to back down," writes Terrell Jermaine Starr in The Root. As she remarked in 2018, “If you shoot at me, you better shoot straight ... There’s nothing like a wounded animal.”
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/13/us/teacher-parent-fight-face-masks-trnd/index.html
https://www.theroot.com/california-man-charged-for-sending-death-threats-signed-1847482959
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/more-than-9000-anti-asian-incidents-since-start-of-covid-pandemic-stop-aapi-hate-report/
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