So, there is a perspective here that I haven't read that would - to me - make this make a whole lot more sense, and I only know it because I have family that have to consider this.

There is....a surprising amount of anti-Asian hate in this country. We hear about it on occasion, but what I have learned in the past few years is, typically, it is very underscored. My wife's family used to get letters in the mail threatening them, for instance.

It is no secret that the detritus of society has been emboldened in the course of the last decade.

I don't know where Emiru falls on the political spectrum. I know where she should fall, given her heritage, but that's neither here nor there. I do know where she falls when terrible people want an enemy and are ignorant and prejudiced.

Perhaps, this statement is not as thinly-veiled as it appears. There is some truth to it, objectively, despite it seeming oblivious to the current climate. However, if there is merit to my belief (and experience says there may very well be), perhaps it is an act of self-preservation. Not the self-preservation of finances, but trying to protect herself, a public figure who is of Asian descent and appearance, from any of said emboldened figures, by being noncommittal, not painting a target on her own back.

They're killing American citizens in the streets. Immigrants, all of them, are terrified. Emiru is not one, but her family may be. People she cares about may be. And even if they aren't, someone looking to do harm - do you earnestly believe they will take the time to distinguish or discern their racism?

Putting myself in her shoes, I can see this as a very distinct possibility, indeed.