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I was looking at some items on a shelf at a store and noticed two women walk by and where one of them clearly and loudly directing an anti-Asian term at my direction, specifically sounded like "Ching. ching, chang, chong". She repeated the phrase before walking further down the aisle.
On private Facebook group called “Vegetarian and Vegan recipes,
[someone posted] about Asian cuisine with the disclaimer “I know we are not supposed to like anything Chinese, but...”
Some comments were questioning whether that disclaimer was made by Chinese folks in the group. What followed were a large slew of numbers of other Asians laughing and mocking the questioning and loving the disclaimer, hate speeches of long strands of justified reasons of the hate for China and Chinese people, and when we tried to ask others to stick to the recipes, more hate speech followed to justify the hate.
I saw a large sign on someone's front lawn that read, "Make China Pay Reparation" and a smaller sign near it that read, "Sorry America is closed. Owner gone nuts!” As of May 24, 2020, the sign is still up.
At the post office, a Caucasian female of older age yelled out racial slurs against the Chinese at me.
A man put a bike tire with "Made in China" and a Corona beer bottle in front of my neighbor's house. My neighbor is Chinese American and we suspect this was a racially-motivated act relating to COVID-19.
Union Jack liquor store, located in Louisville, CO had on their marquee “Thanks China”, and advertised a beer special for $14.88 (White supremacist number). When called out by the community, there were multiple stories given by the owner. As quoted in the local paper, he expressed that he has a sister in law who is Chinese, and who thought it was funny. Likewise, he defended the use of 1488 by saying that he didn’t know that this was derogatory, and “still doesn’t know what it means”. The latter assertion seems very unlikely.
I left a grocery store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and a man passing me on the sidewalk jeered: "Chinese people fuck up everything."
I am a 5th generation Asian American and wore my protective face mask for the first time that day.
I was in a car, two people were walking past about 30 feet away, one of them, the woman, mimicked a stereotype face directed at me when she saw me; she put her front upper teeth over her lower lips to imitate bucked teeth. I have experienced racism in SF, CA in the past however this particular type has never happened to me. I knew exactly what she was trying to do, make fun of me and Chinese people in a way she knew how. This racism occurred last month while I was attending a Chinese American Festival in Marysville, California, a gold rush town and one of the oldest Chinatown's in California, on a day Chinese Americans were streaming in for the festival. What this situation told me whether blatant or in this case, a surreptitious gesture because there were no other people near me, racism is alive and has been elevated to socially acceptable. You think there is strength in numbers and security in urban areas in the Country but contrary to legislation recently enacted to make bullying illegal, Trump and his administration have made it acceptable to harass and inflict violence on folks who look different, again, like other American administrations succeeded in doing over the past 150 years of America's relatively short existence. I am angry and don't have the tools to respond to or combat vulgar uncouth behavior in our society. What do we do?