Except in Trump's case, it wasn't a hypothetical. He spent a year blaming Asians for Covid, and as a result, the hate crime rate against Asians rose 300%
Irrelevant and deflection. Going on and on about Trump is not going to divert me from my point. Once again, the point is that you would call the white attackers racists while sloughing off the same racist attacks by black men as "Trump got them riled."
Actually, it kind of has everything to do with it. You see, Dilbert used to be topical. Every office had a Dilbert calendar with reruns of his strip. Companies like Office Depot used Dilbert animations for advertising... And then... people just kind of forgot about him. "Look, I'm saying something controversial, pay attention to me!" Whoops. That backfired.
I sincerely don't give a flying fuck. I never read the strip unless I happened on one somewhere and again, all you're doing is reinforcing your bias: "Oh, he's racist? Well, his strip was starting to suck anyway and he's got bad breath, acne and skin tags."
Grow up for Christ's sake.
How do you know this?
Which they demonstrated before they got fed up with all the conspiracy theories and just stopped cooperating.
Jesus, are you that naive? They
never cooperated for fuck's sake. The Chinese cannot be trusted and you should know this by now. Remember Tiananmen Square?
That is not to say it was a lab leak but the way they're behaving suggests lab leak and subsequent cover-up. At this point I'm more or less just waiting for that to be confirmed.
Uh, no. I did not say it was
more or most plausible, I said it was entirely plausible. It is just as plausible as the wet market theory.
What's a lot more plausible is that it jumped from animals to humans from a wet market where they sell live animals from exotic places. I'm going to violate my "no links for you" rule and try to education you.
The fuck are you talking about? You've never had a problem
posting links, you just never clicked on links posted
for you.
That being said, I'm gonna pull a JoeB and not click on it or read it.
Not really. For instance, the guy who pushed the Asian lady onto the train tracks had a long history of mental illness.
There were multiple assaults during that time by black men. Black women too, for that matter.
According to the article linked below from May 2021, in spite of all the rhetoric from Democrats and mainstream media that this anti-Asian sentiment was rooted in white supremacy, the stats revealed that fully 27.5% of the Asian attacks were by blacks compared to 24.1% by whites and 21.4% by Hispanics.
These stats were published and cited in the article from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Crime Against Asians Isn’t Due to White Supremacy
In fact, most perpetrators of anti-Asian violence are white people.. but it's the rare black person who "goes viral" thanks to the RW Blogosphere.
A new analysis reveals misconceptions about perpetrators, victims, and the general environment around anti-Asian hate incidents. These can have "long-term consequences for racial solidarity," researcher Janelle Wong said.
www.nbcnews.com
While news reports and social media have perpetuated the idea that anti-Asian violence is committed mostly by people of color, a new analysis shows the majority of attackers are white.
Janelle Wong, a professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, released analysis last week that drew on previously published studies on anti-Asian bias. She found official crime statistics and other studies revealed more than three-quarters of offenders of anti-Asian hate crimes and incidents, from both before and during the pandemic, have been white, contrary to many of the images circulating online.
Other studies confirm the findings, Wong wrote. She pointed to separate research from the University of Michigan Virulent Hate Project, which examined media reports about anti-Asian incidents last year and found that upward of 75 percentof news stories identified perpetrators as male and white in instances of physical or verbal assault and harassment when the race of the perpetrator was confirmed. Wong said the numbers could even be an underestimate.
"This is really how crime is framed in the United States — it's framed as the source is Black," Wong said.
From what I can tell, they gleaned numbers from years going back as far as 2014. Thing is, during the pandemic when the assaults against Asians went up, most - or at least half - of these assaults were committed by blacks.
Now, I know how you like to bog the discussion down by playing the numbers game so I will get back to the main point; many of the assaults against Asians in the last few years were by blacks. If a white person does it, it's racism. If a black person does it, it's because Trump riled him up.
You can't have it both ways. These are racist acts perpetrated by racists, black and white. Period.