Many heard earlier this year about a surge in hate crimes against Asian Americans. Liberals and Democrats have tried their hardest to forge a connection between the horrific hate acts suffered by Asian Americans and the evil of “America’s oldest sin” of racism. This notion soared to front-page news after a white man killed several people, mostly of Asian descent, at massage parlors in Georgia (he was not charged with hate crimes, mind you).
This is routine for left-wing agitators in this country: identify a horrific crime committed by a white man and use it to conjure up the specter of white supremacy and racism. Yet, as is often the case, many facts associated with the crimes do not fit this narrative.
According to the New York Police Department Hate Crime Report, statistics show that in 2020, the most recent year on record, of all the “rampant white supremacy” victimizing Asian Americans in New York City, 90% of the known offenders in hate crimes with an anti-Asian bias were either Black or Latino. Only 10% were white.
This aligns with the national news reports, which again and again turned up anecdotal evidence that these crimes were mostly not being committed by whites at all, let alone white racists. Marc Quidit was an Asian American store owner who was shot four times by Black suspects. Earlier this month, a Black woman attacked two Asian American women with a hammer in New York City. A Black teenager killed an 84-year-old Asian American man in San Francisco in February.
On top of the New York City data and these anecdotal cases, a study in the American Journal of Criminal Justice showed that Asian Americans have a higher chance of being victimized by other minorities than whites in America.
One of the key characteristics of these attacks is that every time you looked into them, they were being committed by nonwhites. This was the opposite of the narrative crafted by Democrats and their accomplices in the media.
In April, Project Veritas reported that a CNN employee named Charles Chester was caught on tape discussing this. “A bunch of black men that have been attacking Asians,” Chester said. “I’m like ‘What are you doing?’ Like we’re trying to like help like with the BLM and you’re going to like … That’s not good. The optics of that are not good.”
The recent Boston Globe report on Eugene Chung, a former NFL player and coach of Korean descent, revealed that when he was interviewing for a coaching job this offseason, he was told that he was “not really a minority.” Chung said he was frozen with anger.
“I was like, ‘Wait a minute. The last time I checked, when I looked in the mirror and brushed my teeth, I was a minority,’” he said. “So I was like, ‘What do you mean I’m not a minority?’”
“You are not the right minority we’re looking for,” the interviewer responded, according to Chung.
Chung claimed he was “dumbfounded” and said that is “when he realized what the narrative was,” the Boston Globe reported.
Asian Americans frequently receive this type of treatment in America. As liberals try to hammer home the notion that the United States was founded on racism and bigotry, Asian Americans keep shattering that narrative with their own academic, business, and socioeconomic success. This is the main reason why Asian Americans are discriminated against for their aggregate success when applying to colleges — something the Trump administration was fighting but the Biden administration has swept back under the rug.
It’s not just that liberals and Democrats observe the plight of Asian Americans only when it is convenient to do so. It’s that they actually stoke resentment against Asian Americans on the one side for their success, actively support discrimination against them, and then play angry when people take their own message too far.
More awareness is developing regarding this type of discrimination against Asian Americans, who, because of the aggregate accomplishments of their broader demographic group, are often not considered people of color, according to the Wall Street Journal.
“Asian-Americans are caught in a bind — condemn the system of white supremacy and privilege along with other people of color or be ‘banished’ from the victim group as white-adjacent,” Wenyuan Wu, executive director of Californians for Equal Rights, told the Wall Street Journal.
“This is the type of discrimination people of Asian descent routinely deal with in America, and it rarely gets acknowledged,” Wu told me in an interview. “Nobody wins in a zero-sum game that subjects individuals to a race-based competition of privilege, oppression, and representation.”
“It was absolutely mind-blowing to me that in 2021, something like that is actually a narrative,” Chung said regarding his job interview.
Unfortunately, it is not only a narrative but a weaponized reality used by liberals to benefit from the outrage over Asian American victims, who are in fact collateral damage in leftists’ campaign for political hegemony.
