Comments from NYT: My extreme sympathies to the Asian-American community who must suffer not only these attacks but from a political ''progressive'' establishment that is hesitant to take forceful action because a disproportionate share of the perpetrators are themselves from historically marginalized groups. While the xenophobic environment and the corona virus contributes to this (unfairly in my view since this is a ''human'' virus and not an ''Asian'' one) let''s not forget the lack of sympathy the Asian community gets because it''s viewed as ''privileged'', ''white-adjacent'' and ''upholding white supremacy'' - much like my much maligned Jewish community.