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The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes
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#62Indian-American here. One thing I often find irritating about the phrase "Asian-American" is that it's usually used to refer to people with East Asian heritage (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, etc). Somehow people with South Asian heritage, like myself, often aren't included in that category, to the point that my girlfriend was surprised to hear that Indian-Americans count as Asian-American.
Ain't no one calling Iranians and Israelis asians.
https://www.worldometers.info/geography/how-many-countries-i...
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#63>Many blame.... Who are these "many", apart from the post author (the Royal "We", maybe), and why are these opinions supposedly worth noting in a factual news article? One can hope that one day that journalistic norms will preclude such weasel-word editorializations.
This isn't attempting to be a "factual news article" and therefore isn't betraying any "journalistic norms". I think a big part of this country's lack of faith in journalism is due to a basic ignorance of the different forms of journalism and how they each have different norms.
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#64There is semi-hidden animosity between the black and some Asian communities. Chinese immigrants are often the ones first moving into and then buying out people in black neighborhoods. Asian kids do disproportionately well in urban schools. Lowell High School is moving from a scoring based system to a lottery. Asian parents see this as unfair while black parents see the previous system as unfair. Chinese are tradition…
> The trade war with China has spread to demonization of Asians.
Has it really though? I agree with pretty much everything else you said (though I’m unsure if getting a gun is warranted).
I don’t think a trade war with China will spur too much in the way of anti-Asian sentiment. Americans were generally able to differentiate between Russians and their government during the Cold War.
I’m not saying there won’t be notable stories that pop here or there, but I don’t think this country is actually as Nativist as the press makes it out to be.
We’ll see I guess.
Stay safe!
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
9mm Sig with some hollow points. Although you will likely be limited to an overpriced f&n. Welcome to the club!
If I could downvote you, I would. You are promoting the use of a dangerous, lethal weapon loaded with the most damaging kind of ammunition on other people. How can you be so cruel? Edit: people seem to be downvoting my comment without context. The original commenter was advocating for the usage of a gun to kill innocent people. It disgusts me that so many people on this website seem to agree/sympathize with them.
I think you're misinformed. People use hollow points to reduce over-penetration that occurs with a FMJ bullet
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#66Indian-American here. One thing I often find irritating about the phrase "Asian-American" is that it's usually used to refer to people with East Asian heritage (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, etc). Somehow people with South Asian heritage, like myself, often aren't included in that category, to the point that my girlfriend was surprised to hear that Indian-Americans count as Asian-American.
That is a bit racist. Someone should send out a memo to include you guys in these hate-crimes
Should the petition use google forms, change.org or in person?
In person, people will think you’re trying to recall Governor Newsom but I’m sure they’ll oblige on this petition too
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#67> Many blame the Trump administration for inciting this violence; Trump and numerous other members of his White House staff embraced racist and xenophobic anti-Asian rhetoric... > NYPD date showed that there has been a 1,900 percent increase anti-Asian hate crimes in New York City in the past year... An 84-year-old Thai American man, Vicha Ratanapakdee, was killed in an unprovoked attack in San Francisco; a 64-year-o…
How much longer can we blame trump for everything before realising America has problems deeper than one person.
Well that would perhaps lead to solving some of the problems, which is not in any politician's interest. Having the problems, and blaming them someone else, is far more useful.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
This "I hate the government, not the people" schtick is a cop out. The Chinese people overwhelmingly support the actions of their government. Beyond that, the idea that the media can wash their hands of this because people should know they're talking about the Chinese government , not Chinese people , is just incredibly generous to a class of people who absolutely know what they are doing.
The Chinese people overwhelmingly support the actions of their government. How is that relevant? A person who disagrees with me isn't my enemy. Beyond that, the idea that the media can wash their hands of this because people should know they're talking about the Chinese government, not Chinese people, is just incredibly generous to a class of people who absolutely know what they are doing. I can't figure out what you…
What they are doing is establishing a shared belief among Americans that Chinese people are deserving of punishment (implied: via military means). For evidence I refer you to the book Manufacturing Consent by well-known computer scientist & political activist Noam Chomsky, who details how the US media again and again has used a strategy of selective reporting to categorize the world's people as deserving or undeserving victims in line with America's foreign policy goals.
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#69I'm sorry but this article is straight assumption. We see a man push over a elderly man. This is hardly out if the norm for online attacks, I saw a nurse the other day beating a man almost to death while he was recording himself saying "Get off my wald".
The one other race attack they had to say "allegedly". Why allegedly, was their not a court case?
We should all live our neighbours, but the media stating things without solid evidence just bothers me.
In my country our biggest city has 20-30% Asians, our media also tried to say their was more hate crimes. When it turned out they had only started to record them. And something getting robbed counted as a hate crime. (Chinese are very rich on average, and its known they tend to carry large amounts or cash).
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#70Even on HN you can't speak anything good for China so this is no suprise at all unless you think these criminals can tell the difference between a government or a party and a group of people. And how can you ask these criminals for that if many Ivy League graduates fail to recognize it. The only way for Asian Americans to survive is to protect yourself with whatever you have. Downvote me white boys.
I am perfectly capable of holding nothing but contempt for the Chinese government while harboring exactly zero ill will against Chinese people in general.
I tend to assume Chinese people in the US are there because they feel similar about the government, and I have absolutely no clue how non-Chinese Asians figure into this.