As anti-Asian hate spiked amid the coronavirus pandemic, Google’s data showed that searches for the term 'Asian American' increased by over 5,000% in 2021.
“Atlanta shooting” also became a Google Trends breakout search, helping create a dialogue about sexism and racism when discussing the victims.
She pointed out that online engagement like Google searches can be a first step, but after that, leaders need to step up by investing in communities and creating policies, which are concrete efforts that she said have been lacking. “It’s really unfortunate that it took something like a mass shooting that took the lives of Asian American women for this to come to light,” she said.
Around the same time, the phrases “stop Asian hate” and “stop AAPI hate,” popular slogans at protests and on social media, were searched more than ever and peaked after the shootings.
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