Posted on 04/14/2021 7:09:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Recently, there has been a drumbeat of expressed concern by the left — the Democrats and their ever faithful messengers, the press — over a rise in hate crimes committed against Asians. The shooting in Atlanta, in which six of the nine victims were Asian women, brought on a rush to declare this an anti-Asian hate crime. It turned out, however, that the fact that a majority of the victims were Asians had nothing to do with the shooter's motivation. More recently, the brutal attack, caught on video, of a man shoving an elderly Asian woman to the ground, kicking her several times, and shouting "you don't belong here" was, indeed, a hate crime.
So leftists were palpably anxious to declare it a symptom of their go-to faux bogey, white supremacy. But the facts revealed that the anti-Asian assailant was a black man and a convicted murderer (of his mother!) out on parole. (It is inconvenient for this perfidious white supremacist narrative that blacks have committed a sizeable number of the assaults against Asians.)
Hate crimes against Asians, mainly assaults, have indeed increased in the last year, as has violent crime in general. But even taking the highest estimate of their number I could find, that provided by the left-wing StopAAPIHate, and assuming that all of them were in fact motivated by anti-Asian bias, in absolute terms, the number of such assaults is tiny: 421.
To put that number in perspective, if each of those assaults was committed by a separate person, there would have been only one anti-Asian assaulter per 800,000 people, committing only one such assault in a year. The chance of an Asian suffering an assault at the hands of an anti-Asian bigot would have been considerably less than the chance of being injured taking a bath,
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THE THREE REASONS:
1. The left wants Asians to join blacks and Hispanics as reliable votes for Democrats. So it wants Asians to believe what it wants (and has largely succeeded in getting) blacks and Hispanics to believe — namely, that Republicans and their voters are white supremacists who despise them.
2. JEALOUSY AND EMBARASSMENT: Asians are, as a relative matter, the most successful group in America. Their average income exceeds that of whites. Yet many Asians came to this country with little wealth, and few spoke English. Moreover, when they came, they often were the victims of discrimination — and in the case of the Japanese, internment for several years. Yet despite these handicaps, and without governmental solicitude, they have managed to succeed and surpass even whites.
3. DEFLECTION: There is anti-Asian discrimination in America, but one of its main sources is a principal bastion of the left: elite universities. Asians are discriminated against in seeking admission to Harvard, Yale, and other elite schools.
Yup. They want the Asians onboard the hate-whitey train. Problem is most of them are not as easily convinced as other “marginalized persons of color” (gag)
Who doesn’t like Asians?
Democrats are always looking for a reason to point their bony fingers and screech “racism”, to make themselves look good and blame their political enemies. They’d prefer real examples but because those are so rare, must make them up instead.
Money. There is a huge push on to make a legal case for reparations. There is also a segment of the economy now (thanks to social media) that monetarily incentivizes conspiracy theories, fake news, and divisiveness. Its profitable, and there isn’t an organized and effective pushback, so here we are.
RE: Who doesn’t like Asians?
Where have you been the last few months?
Actually, the REAL REASON is that the Democrats are in the process of further locking out Asians from higher education and other areas where they are ‘over-represented’.
So it makes sense to keep them distracted with the lie that there’s some upsurge in anti-Asian violence (with the implication that it’s due to whites)...while their plans to put Asians in their place are carried out.
The question is - are Asians able to get around our media to find the truth? It’s hard enough for whites to do that, one can only imagine what it’s like for immigrants here.
I like Chinese,
I like Chinese,
They come from a long way overseas,
But they’re cute, and they’re cuddly, and they’re ready to please.
“The truth about attacks on Asians...”
We already know.
The Asians are largely aware that it is usually black people assaulting them.
There is a good deal of racism in the Asian community (against blacks). Criminality is a major reason.
If we Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste I hope we use this fear mongering to promote law and order. Anger about this is fueling the recall of DA Chesa Boudin in SF for example as it should.
In my youth, I was susceptible to occasional bouts of "yellow fever."
It teaches the Asians - who know that it's a crock that "Whitey is out to get them" - to distrust the media. And for that, I am grateful.
Regards,
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