The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes • Hacker News Board

Re: The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes

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Post by vmception » Tue, Feb 09, 2021, 4:15 AM UTC

pfarnsworth wrote: post #23

gautamcgoel wrote: post #8

Indian-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.

Russians are also Asian.

I was seeing a woman from Tatarstan, the double eyelid phenotypes were pronounces along with some other features that are even more common in East Asia. There are a lot of people in Russia like that.

I had never heard of that place while in the US, its just “Russia” and an image of the part bordering the EU

Re: The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes

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Post by rexpop » Tue, Feb 09, 2021, 4:16 AM UTC

babesh wrote: post #32

There 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…

I am in solidarity with those Asian peoples who have been left behind by Tech Capital's H1-B cherry-picking, but I have absolutely no sympathy for Model Minority Settler Colonists Scabs who move into a neighborhood and threaten violence.

Do us a favor and turn that gun on yourself, invader.

You're displacing families in marginalized neighborhoods, you said it yourself. The reasons a family would immigrate here are their own, but the San Francisco Bay Area (especially Oakland) is a refuge of asylum for communities fleeing racist violence in their former homes in the South. Tech immigrants—especially those on this forum privileged by their sycophantic relationships to international Capital—spending the tech money which you were selected to receive in order to price out working class families who have been routinely and systematically denied those privileges which afford your financial leverage are an abomination. You are destroying families, and killing people with the resultant inequality.

We don't want you here. You deserve to be targeted by "criminals", because your "civilized" economic warfare is the greatest crime.

Edit: Yeah, yeah, yeah, "survival of the fittest," and "Kapitalismus Über Alles". You're all a bunch of sycophants for authoritarian power. You're brown-nosing suckup scabs who hate democracy, and love tyranny and that's why you love being placed in positions of privilege above all your former peers.

Re: The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes

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Post by refurb » Tue, Feb 09, 2021, 4:16 AM UTC

gautamcgoel wrote: post #8

Indian-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.

If we want to be truly correct we should include Russians then as well?

Re: The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes

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Post by jandrewrogers » Tue, Feb 09, 2021, 4:16 AM UTC

nexthash wrote: post #50

BikiniPrince wrote: post #38

Earlier 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.

Hollow points are for the safety of innocent bystanders by limiting penetration after they hit something solid. This is widely known and understood.

Re: The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes

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Post by Der_Einzige » Tue, Feb 09, 2021, 4:16 AM UTC

pfarnsworth wrote: post #23

gautamcgoel wrote: post #8

Indian-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.

Russians are also Asian.

Why are you being downvoted? Russians east of the urals look asian too!

Re: The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes

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Post by nexthash » Tue, Feb 09, 2021, 4:17 AM UTC

calvinmorrison wrote: post #65

nexthash wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Do you really think the type of bullet matters? A bullet is a projectile whose sole purpose is to penetrate the human body at subsonic or supersonic speeds. The original commenter was advocating for carrying and using weapons that fire these bullets against innocent people. To me that's just depravity.

Re: The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes

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Post by nexthash » Tue, Feb 09, 2021, 4:17 AM UTC

jandrewrogers wrote: post #74

nexthash wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Hollow points are for the safety of innocent bystanders by limiting penetration after they hit something solid. This is widely known and understood.

And what exactly are they supposed to penetrate?

Re: The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes

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Post by unionjack22 » Tue, Feb 09, 2021, 4:18 AM UTC

My anecdotal experience suggests this seems to be a Cali phenomenon. In Seattle, even with our insane number homeless, addicts, and the uptick in crime this year, we’ve had only a handful of attacks against our Asian citizens. All of which were dealt with swiftly and harshly.

Re: The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes

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Post by throwawayboise » Tue, Feb 09, 2021, 4:18 AM UTC

ipqk wrote: post #57

babesh wrote: post #32

There 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…

Semi-hidden? Tensions between black & korean-americans was a huge part of the 1992 LA Riots.

Also a sub-theme in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing from the late 1980s.

Re: The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes

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Post by vmception » Tue, Feb 09, 2021, 4:18 AM UTC

babesh wrote: post #32

There 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…

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