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Liberal Cynic's avatar

Not in the story I linked to you it wasn't.

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Frank Lee's avatar

Wow. You found one story and from the NYT! Try pulling the statistics if you want to make a relevant point... because everyone can find a story.

Backs are highly over represented in violence against Asians. https://www.financegeek.org/chinese/black-on-asian-crime/

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Terry Hilldale's avatar

The idea it was blacks targeting Asians came straight from right-wing propaganda as a way to to shift blame for all the white targeting going on. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2021/03/11/why-the-trope-of-black-asian-conflict-in-the-face-of-anti-asian-violence-dismisses-solidarity/ It is not a golf game where the lowest score wins. Besides, your link is out of date. Ever since Trump started calling Covid "the China virus," assaults on Asians (because, you know, they all look alike) skyrocketed. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2020.1839114 more than three-fourths of Asian assault are perpetuated by whites. https://docs.google.com/document/d/19llMUCDHX-hLKru-cnDCq0BirlpNgF07W3f-q0J0ko4/edit Meanwhile, MAGA pastors all over America are foaming at the mouth, making them look more like demons than the Democrats they literally demonize. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmHYuwOoR9A (from 1:25)

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Arun's avatar

"NYT". So says the guy who relies on a "Finance Geek" article to justify his BS on racism.

Here's another one for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Sikh_temple_shooting

There's no organized anti-immigrant black group as you may want to believe. There are however anti-immigrant white nationalists/supremacists who routinely have problems with asians/blacks/latinos/Jews/LGBT/women. Also this is just an evolution for this same group has also had problems in the past with Irish/Germans/Italians etc.

Shame on you for spouting such "divide & conquer" non-sense. Would have asked you to remove your tin-foil hat, but you know exactly what you are attempting here.

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Liberal Cynic's avatar

You said "whites aren't targeting Asians."

I found you a story that shows a white targeting Asians. It was a pretty big story last year. Would you like to amend your statement?

Asians themselves blame Trump and whites for the rise in violence against them:

https://morningconsult.com/2021/04/07/asian-america-racism-discrimination-poll/

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3151188/many-asian-republicans-blame-trump-not-their-party

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/03/19/trumps-chinese-virus-tweet-helped-fuel-anti-asian-hate-on-twitter-study-finds/?sh=67be76741a7c

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1087536315

Ah, but what do Asians know compared to Mr. Finance Geek.

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Frank Lee's avatar

LOL. Sure. That is why Asians are leaving the Democrat party.

You rattle off corporate media links like you cannot do you own research and critical thinking. The data from the article I cited was directly from your beloved government stats. Blacks make up 12% of the population compared to 62.3% white. Yet blacks are responsible for 27.5% of violent incidents against Asians compared to 24.1% whites.

Do you do math?

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Terry Hilldale's avatar

Asians blame Trump's rhetoric for the skyrocketing increase in assaults. They blame Democrats for what they perceive as efforts to weaken their number one priority--education.

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