I find it appalling that blacks are doing these things to Asian people. But maybe, I should not be surprised, since it only happens in BLUE states. It's funny (and stupid at the same time) that these are just occurring
after Covid was found in a lab in Wuhan China. So, now blacks all of a sudden hate Asian people?
I believe these are being "engineered" by the left.
Are blacks the only people doing it?
These senseless acts of anti-Asian violence have finally garnered the national attention they deserve, but they have also invoked anti-Black sentiment and reignited the trope of Black-Asian conflict. Because some of the video-taped perpetrators appear to have been Black, some observers immediately reduced anti-Asian violence to Black-Asian conflict. This is not the first time that the trope has been weaponized. Black-Asian conflict—and Black-Korean conflict more specifically—became the popular frame of the LA riots in 1992.
The trope failed to capture the reality of
Black-Korean relations three decades ago, and it fails to capture the reality of anti-Asian bias today.
A recent study finds that in fact, Christian nationalism is the strongest predictor of xenophobic views of COVID-19, and the effect of Christian nationalism is greater among white respondents, compared to Black respondents. Moreover, Black Americans
have also experienced high levels of racial discrimination since the pandemic began. Hence, not only does the frame of two minoritized groups in conflict ignore the role of white
national populism, but it also absolves the history and systems of inequality that positioned them there.
Jennifer Lee and Tiffany Huang write that many Asian Americans recognize commonalities with Black Americans and that these public acts of interracial solidarity show what is possible when we imagine empathy and justice.
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