NiceLikeChrist

5y

I'm half filipino...

allred

5y

How come the conversation is all on vilifying black people

MERAJI: So, AJP, even before the shooting happened, we knew that reports of abuse and harassment of Asian Americans was on the rise.

PERRY: That's right. The Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University documented 145% increase in anti-Asian hate crimes that were collected by police in major cities between 2019 and last year, so during the pandemic. And a brand-new report coincidentally came out on the morning of the shooting from the nonprofit Stop AAPI Hate. They counted 3,800 reports of anti-Asian incidents since March 2020. And these are self-reported incidents by Asian Americans. Around 70% of them were acts of verbal abuse and harassment. We're talking things like slurs, derogatory names, phrases like go back to your country. You're the reason for coronavirus. And another thing I wanted to note is that the majority of people who have been attacked are of East Asian or Southeast Asian descent.

DEMBY: So you said 70% of these incidents were verbal abuse, but that means a lot of them went far beyond that, beyond insults and threats, right?

PERRY: And then because there are so many people, not everyone's going to have the same thought or be equally informed. Still, as I was reading through all these comments, a big thing that stood out to me was that there seemed to be divide in how different people were talking about the attacks and processing them. A few commenters kept pointing out that the people who attacked these elderly men in the Bay Area were African American. They were saying things like, Black people hate Asians. These are Black-on-Asian hate crimes.

DEMBY: OK. So real quick, 'cause now I'm curious, like, what do we know about who was carrying out these attacks on Asian people?

PERRY: So I talked to a researcher from University of Michigan. Her and her team have been tracking all incidents of anti-Asian racism and violence that were reported in the news during all of 2020. I just want to back up and say that these numbers are spotty because a lot of these incidents don't get reported. So what the team did find out is that white people accounted for 90% of anti-Asian incidents in 2020, but only 5% of perpetrators were Black.

MERAJI: Yeah. And before the Atlanta shooting happened, this Black-Asian tension seems like it was dominating a lot of these online conversations.

PERRY: There were other people in these online forums pushing back, though. They were saying, let's stop saying Black people are the reason for these attacks and hatred against Asian Americans. They're not the problem; white supremacy is the problem.

DEMBY: OK. So this is what you found on these forums before the shootings in Atlanta, right? So since then, how has the tenor of those conversations changed? I'm curious.

PERRY: OK. Well, for one thing, the shooter in Atlanta is white, not Black. And the heat getting directed at Asian Americans is getting a lot more attention, like TiDo said at that rally before the shootings. But now it's magnified tenfold, right? It's, like, in headline news. Celebrities are getting involved. Big brands like HBO, Nike are doing the similar thing they did after George Floyd's death last summer - Instagram posts that say we stand with the AAPI community, #StopAAPIHate, all of that.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/980437156

repent

5y

in spite of that I still see shyt like this.

i don't want to have to say this but a lot of people are just innately antiblack

jg33

5y

Trump was very critical of China but was a dumbass and stoked the fire by saying s*** like Kung Flu and China Virus and what not

Biden meanwhile is gonna bend over for China for the next four years

Gimme a president that's tough on China but isn't gonna inspire his loser supporters to commit hate crimes

is that too much to ask

null97

5y

what's this about ?

KuntaKinte

5y

Biden had his Sec of State basically s*** talk China at their last meeting.

Also Biden has largely kept the Trump tariffs on China

And he recently sanctioned them
Do you even follow the news?

If anything Biden is on China's neck moreso than Trump ever was

jg33

5y

might ask you the same question if you think tariffs are considered "tough"

actions speak louder than words when y'all get a $15 minimum wage and corporations flock to a country where they can get a kid to do it for 5 cents

or when you jump back into a climate agreement that allows for China to spit out carbon emissions unchecked

or when you're more concerned about military combat uniforms for pregnant women while China builds the largest navy in the world

should i go on

repent

5y

in spite of that I still see shyt like this.

i don't want to have to say this but a lot of people are just innately antiblack

proper

5y

also this guys username is koreanconservative and has the american flag inside the korean flag he def a white boy asian

RIP2V

5y

Yep it's like I said this narrative is literally either coming from MAGA s***posters or self hating conservative Asians

Maga Law

5y

Because black people don't hate any race

CLB Fractions

5y

black people are a disproportionate number in mass shootings tho

CLB Fractions

5y

black people are a disproportionate number in mass shootings tho

Maga Law

5y

Well black people are in gangs

They aren't targeting a specific race lol