Tuesday, March 30, 2021

About Anti-Asian Hate Crimes

Ed Driscoll of Power Line links to a Splice Today article by Chris Beck which reports something I thought I’d been noticing in the various reports of anti-Asian hate crimes.

Consistent with the U.S. Bureau of Justice data* that was compiled until 2018—Asians are now lumped into the “other” category, a suspicious decision that merits investigation—black males are the main perpetrators of the pandemic’s anti-Asian hate crimes, and there’re videos supporting this claim that the media isn’t going to show you.

The media’s problem is that, under the current progressive definition of racism, blacks can’t be racists because, as a group, they have no power. Since reporting that black males are committing race-based violence against another minority group runs counter to this narrative, the media finesses it by not mentioning the race of the assailant if he’s black.
*Table 14, page 13, scroll down. However, checking Table 15 which the article doesn’t reference, shows that Asians are the only racial/ethnic group not mainly victimized by members of their own group.
  
Later ... here is another example, from the New York Daily News.