副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯和共和党副总统候选人JD Vance的妻子Usha Vance在白宫的竞选中提高了自己的知名度，他们的南亚血统在2024年的竞选周期中一直处于前沿和中心。
现在，一份新报告来自倡导团体Stop AAPI哈特说，它发现南亚代表的上升与网上反南亚种族主义相吻合。
收集反亚裔仇恨数据和研究的“停止AAPI仇恨”组织发现，8月份，当哈里斯在民主党全国代表大会上被宣布为总统候选人，万斯出现在共和党全国代表大会上时，网上对亚裔社区的暴力威胁达到了最近的最高水平。
“选举前反南亚仇恨的激增源于有毒的政治气候，越来越多的领导人和极右翼极端分子的声音继续散布偏执的政治言论和虚假信息，”停止AAPI仇恨的联合创始人、中国平权行动的联合执行董事辛西娅·崔(Cynthia Choi)在一份声明中说。
该组织与极端主义研究组织Moonshot合作，仅在2024年8月就记录了973份针对亚洲人的在线暴力威胁报告;至少75%的威胁是针对南亚社区的。
数据显示，社交媒体上反南亚诽谤的报告从2023年1月的23，000起增加了一倍，到2024年8月超过46，000起。
针对该社区的网上诽谤和刻板印象反映了线下攻击“停止AAPI仇恨国”的语言，包括呼吁南亚居民“滚回”他们的祖国。
“很明显，他们煽动仇恨的言论在选举前引发了针对南亚人民的种族主义和歧视浪潮——但我们不能假设这种仇恨会在选举结束后停止。事实上，我们正准备迎接仇恨的进一步上升，”Choi说。
美国联邦调查局的数据也显示，反亚裔仇恨犯罪并没有下降到疫情之前的水平煽动性的政治言论围绕冠状病毒。
“停止AAPI仇恨”警告说，官方机构可能需要几个月或几年的时间来收集和发布当面仇恨事件的数据，因此在线空间可以作为人们可能面临的实时警告。
As Kamala Harris, Usha Vance bring marquee value to South Asian profile, a spike in online hate: report
Vice President Kamala Harris and Usha Vance, the wife of Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance, have raised their profiles in the race for the White House, and their South Asian ancestry has been front and center during the 2024 campaign cycle.
Now,a new reportfrom the advocacy group Stop AAPI Hate says it found that a rise in South Asian representation has coincided with anti-South Asian racism online.
Stop AAPI Hate, which collects data and research on anti-Asian hate, found that online threats of violence toward Asian communities reached their highest recent levels in August, when Harris was declared the presidential nominee at the Democratic National Convention and Vance appeared at the Republican National Convention.
“The preelection surge in anti-South Asian hate stems from a toxic political climate in which a growing number of leaders and far-right extremist voices continue to spew bigoted political rhetoric and disinformation,” said Cynthia Choi, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate and co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action, in a statement.
The group, in collaboration with extremism research group Moonshot, recorded 973 reports of online threats of violence against Asians in August 2024 alone; at least 75% of those threats were directed at South Asian communities.
The data shows that reports of anti-South Asian slurs on social media doubled from around 23,000 in January 2023 to more than 46,000 in August 2024.
The online slurs and stereotypes used against the community mirror the language of offline attacks, Stop AAPI Hate states -- including calls for South Asian residents to "go back" to their ancestral country.
“It’s clear that their hate-fueled rhetoric has sparked a wave of racism and discrimination against South Asian people ahead of the elections — but we cannot assume this hate will stop once the elections are over. In fact, we’re bracing for a further rise in hate to come,” said Choi.
FBI data also has shown anti-Asian hate crimes have not fallen to pre-pandemic levels amidinflammatory political rhetoricaround the coronavirus.
Stop AAPI Hate warns that it could take months or years for data on in-person hate incidents to be collected and released by official agencies -- so online spaces can act as a warning for what people may be facing in real time.
