Then in 2021, there was an explosion of uses of “AAPI” first in February 2021, when various black thugs were videoed knocking down tiny Asians (but, not surprisingly, not giant Pacific Islanders) and a Leftist group called Stop AAPI Hate became the media’s go-to source for how this was all Trump’s fault for saying the words “China virus” ten months before. Stop AAPI Hate is a new COVID-era name for a coalition of old-time Mau-Mauing the Flak Catcher Leftist San Francisco groups like Chinese for Affirmative Action.

Then in March 2021, a white guy shot up some massage parlors, killing six Asian women, and “AAPI” was used over and over again. This set of murders generated (and still generates) a vast amount of journalistic comment, unlike the murder of 10 people in Boulder a week later, which disappeared down the memory hole when the white-looking shooter turned out to be named Ahmad Al Aliwi Al-Issa, an immigrant who was angry about white racism and Islamophobia.