99.9% of these "Asian Hate" attacks are carried out by young urban black males. These individuals are committing criminal acts against an Asian community they have been brainwashed to believe are exploiters: people who run businesses (convenience stores, liquor stores) in black communities and are somehow doing so at the community's expense, rather than providing scarce and needed services.
They are absolutely racist attacks - but they are not coming from the perpetrators implied by the media. Journalists who have been trained to see street crime as some form of justifiable "reparations" are crafting their reporting very carefully to hide what is really happening.
Of course Asian-Americans are going to increasingly use their 2nd Amendment rights to defend themselves. They know what's going on, even if the typical American college student has no clue.