Experts who study extremism warn that white nationalists and far-right militants are looking for ways to exploit the coronavirus crisis — from recruiting young people who are now out of school, to making calls for violence.
that targeted an Asian-American family at a Sam's Club. The suspect told authorities he thought the family was spreading the coronavirus.
"This is a global emergency that should be met with both urgency and also cultural awareness that Covid-19 is not isolated to a single ethnic population," Jeffrey Caballero, executive director of the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations, said in a statement."Xenophobic attacks and discrimination towards Asian American communities are unacceptable.
"For extremists, this is an ideal time to exploit youth grievances about their lack of agency, their families' economic distress, and their intense sense of disorientation, confusion, fear and anxiety," Miller-Idriss said. Without the usual social support from trusted adults such as coaches and teachers, she said,"youth become easy targets for the far right.
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