My mother’s scary experience

As of late the mainstream media has talked about attacks on random Asian people happening all over.

I as an Asian person myself am actually scared of this and the big reason for this was what my mother had told me had happened to her recently at a local grocery store.

My mother told me that when she and my dad were out buying groceries a few weeks ago some young guy that was over 6 ft came up to her and randomly asked her if she was Chinese?

My mom said nothing and just walked away and by miracle the guy left her alone.

My mom described the guy who asked her if she was Chinese seemed like he might’ve had some kind of condition that made him seem childlike and he wasn’t all there?

He apparently was also an employee at the grocery store and if that is true than….why is he allowed to ask a random stranger who was a costumer also about her race like that?

Most people when meeting new strangers for the first time don’t ask other strangers what their race, sexual orientation or anything else like that is as that is private and personal stuff and also it seems extremely socially awkward along with creepy giving plenty of strangers the wrong signals about that person asking it in public.

People who ask stuff like that give the impression that they maybe a serial killer, an offender of some kind or they are some kind of person who wants to commit an actual hate crime and with what is being said in the mainstream news numerously about attacks on Asians……my mother and other Asians like myself have a right to be on guard for whatever could come our way in these strange times we live in.

And with how the mainstream media seems to love to sensationalize and inflate news reports on Asian hate crimes that are going on these days I worry that Asian hate crimes will become like school shootings in how the mainstream media kept sensationalized and over inflating those news headlines along with showing the shooter’s face and talking about his troubled past that lead him to do the terrible deed.

Because the mainstream media for years kept sensationalizing and inflating school shootings it lead to copy cat shooters over the years and I fear with how the mainstream media treats Asian hate crimes that it might inspire copy cats and one of them could be the guy who asked my mother if she was Chinese at the local grocery store?

My mom after that meeting with that young man will often bring this up with me as she watches the mainstream news alot that keep speaking about the Asian hate crimes going on and with what happened at the grocery store and I don’t know what to say to calm her down or put her at ease as after hearing her own story about the situation and me knowing how the mainstream media has irresponsibly acted over the past few years…..

……things seem uncertain along with scary unpredictable.

I was thinking about calling up the store to tell management about what my mom went through as she told me the last time she shopped there that creepy guy was still working there and she was afraid to go anywhere in the store where this guy was at.

Then at the same time I wondered to myself….what if I make a big deal out of nothing as what I hear from my older sister over the years is how my mother has a tendency to exaggerate her claims in life sometimes as she gets overly emotional.

Also my older sister if you saw a recent posts here on the website that she herself is kinda nuts too in how my older sister flipped out and hit the steering wheel of her car when I brought up Freedom of Speech in a conversation with her?

So should I trust my easily triggered sister over her claims that my mother might over exaggerate her claims on situations she goes through or should I trust my mom’s story?

A strange situation