Now, with the COVID-19 pandemic, Asian-Americans, who have similarly endured bigotry and racism throughout our nation’s history, have found themselves the targets of fresh abuse by those - including President Donald Trump - who continue to incorrectly call a global pandemic a “Chinese virus.” Black Americans have endured that hatred for generations. American Jews have felt it, most recently and horribly, in the Tree of Life killings in Pittsburgh in 2018. Two decades into the Forever War on Terror, they’re still the subject of groundless hatred. In 2001, American Muslims found themselves singled out for abuse in the wake of the Sept. Just as often, though, the finger of blame gets pointed at someone who bears no responsibility, or gets scapegoated because they just happen to share the same ethnic, racial or religious background as the person, or persons, behind a tragedy. Sometimes, that blame is justified, when bureaucratic or official breakdowns lead to a catastrophe that could have been averted. If there’s one sad truth about every tragedy, it’s that people will look around for someone to blame.
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