If you don’t think the media are institutionally racist, then you’re not paying attention. The media absolutely has a pervasive racial bias: against white people – with “white adjacent” Asians not far behind.
In the wake of the Wuhan pandemic, there has been a notable surge in public attacks on East Asian people. Even in New Zealand, where a Japanese tourist was viciously beaten in Rotorua.
Just don’t mention the race of the offenders. Unless, the offender is safely white, of course.
The horrific murder of eight people on Tuesday, victims mostly of Asian descent, has spurred a national conversation about rising violence against Asian Americans. The sole suspect is a troubled 21-year-old white man from Georgia.
This mass shooting may not be racially motivated: The killer seems to have been motivated by a sexual addiction and mental health problems. Still, as anti-Asian crimes have risen across the country, blue check marks on Twitter have placed the blame on former President Donald Trump and white supremacy.
The shooting is a shocking crime: no one should dispute that. But the almost gleeful rush by the left-media to indulge in their anti-white bias is not only a gross exploitation of tragedy in order to satisfy prejudice, it also sweeps aside the sordid truth about anti-Asian hate: it ain’t the whiteys who are most likely to do it.
FBI statistics suggest that most anti-Asian violence has come from black perpetrators. Refusing to look at these statistics represents a refusal to take seriously the lives and security of Asian Americans.
According to the Justice Department, 27.5% of all violent crimes against Asian Americans in 2018 were committed by black people. That’s over 50,000 incidents in a single year, compared to 43,917 Asian victims who suffered at the hands of either white or Asian criminals. Asian people, similar to their white counterparts, are underrepresented in violent crimes committed to the proportion of the population they make up.
In a similar fashion, hate crimes against Jews are skyrocketing – and black Americans are four times as likely as other Americans to be “most anti-Semitic”.
As is the way with the left-media, when facts contradict their prejudices, they resort to all manner of pea-and-shells logic. If black people are more prejudiced against other races than whites, there must be some way to blame it all on white people.
Some left-wing outlets such as Vox have claimed that interracial violence between black and Asian people is a consequence of white supremacy. While being ridiculous at face value, it’s also unverifiable, which likely is the point. If you can’t disprove something based on data, then you can perpetuate the narrative. The same liberals who’ve said that white supremacy is to blame for anti-Asian crime are also some of the same people who have said Asians are white-adjacent and benefit from white privilege.
But we should note that the progressive war on merit has made Asian Americans a constant target. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Education Department sponsored a panel in 2019 to discuss how Asians benefit from white privilege. The Washington Post has published multiple op-eds suggesting that Asian success is due to white people no longer being racist toward them. The founder of the 1619 Project has repeatedly claimed that Asians receive special benefits from being white-adjacent.
Put simply, the Left has said the worst element plaguing society is white privilege. It has then made Asian Americans an accomplice to the crime.
Washington Examiner
Just as anti-Semitism is rapidly becoming endemic on the left, anti-Asian hate is also showing a notable leftward tilt. The leftist redoubt of academia actively punishes high-achieving Asian students seeking admission to elite universities, in much the same way as Ivy League colleges once did to Jews.
Likewise, the latest wave of crimes have distinctly occurred in left-wing, Democrat-controlled areas. From assaults and murders in San Francisco and Brooklyn, to shootings in Manhattan and Atlanta, it ain’t exactly a “MAGA country” problem.
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