As a woman of half Asian (and half Caucasian) descent, I was a bit worried at the beginning of the pandemic with the reports of increasing incidents of hate crimes against Asians. But a spike in a phenomenon that is statistically very, very tiny really should not be a cause for major personal concern, and it became clear pretty quickly that the incidents which made the news were isolated and not tapping into some kind of widespread previously-hidden, barely suppressed anti-Asian animosity. (Whew! That's a relief.) The Atlanta shootings are a terrible tragedy, of course, but I'm not living in fear because of them. Thanks, Ms. Young, for giving a measured and reasonable analysis of the facts.

(For the record, I am only half Chinese but I look "Asian enough" to have received "othering" comments and to have been harassed in public by some local guy with apparent mental illness who targets Asian women. I assume I get the benefit of some kind of "privilege" for being less Asian-looking than a full-blooded Asian person, but I don't doubt that I could also be the target of a hate crime. And I'm grateful that they are very rare.)