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An Asian Uber Driver Was Attacked by a Mob. Then YouTube Took Down His Video

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Post by sol_invictus »

rafale wrote: post #8

The title doesn't specify the perpetrator is white and doesn't mention white supremacy. It can only mean one thing, the elephant in the room, black-on-asian violence. If someone saw the video, can you please confirm my hunch?

Does black-on-asian violence have some kind of special status in comparison to black-on-any-other-skin-color violence?

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Post by jeffbee »

tolbish wrote: post #9

I haven't seen this domain before. Does inquiremore have a good reputation around here?

It's just yet another substack. Zaid Jilani has been reporting for a long time. He's been associated with totally disreputable outlets like truthout and mostly disreputable outlets like thinkprogress. For the last year or two he's been playing the role of useful contrarian minority for a variety of right wing thinkers.

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Post by alephnan »

sol_invictus wrote: post #23
rafale wrote: post #8

The title doesn't specify the perpetrator is white and doesn't mention white supremacy. It can only mean one thing, the elephant in the room, black-on-asian violence. If someone saw the video, can you please confirm my hunch?

Does black-on-asian violence have some kind of special status in comparison to black-on-any-other-skin-color violence?

No, but Asian people have been on the receiving end of hate crimes more recently

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Post by sourabhforu »

As sad as this incident is, equally sad are the comments on this post here- People who are using this incident and youtube's actions to fit their own agenda, rant against youtube (instead of addressing the real elephant- uber exploiting its drivers) and justifying their own sense of racial wrong and injustices. Nothing in the article indicates that this incident was racially motivated in any way. Grow up. Read the article first

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Post by whoevercares »

sol_invictus wrote: post #23
rafale wrote: post #8

The title doesn't specify the perpetrator is white and doesn't mention white supremacy. It can only mean one thing, the elephant in the room, black-on-asian violence. If someone saw the video, can you please confirm my hunch?

Does black-on-asian violence have some kind of special status in comparison to black-on-any-other-skin-color violence?

Try bully a Russian

Re: An Asian Uber Driver Was Attacked by a Mob. Then YouTube Took Down His Video

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Post by nemothekid »

rafale wrote: post #8

The title doesn't specify the perpetrator is white and doesn't mention white supremacy. It can only mean one thing, the elephant in the room, black-on-asian violence. If someone saw the video, can you please confirm my hunch?

>It can only mean one thing, the elephant in the room, black-on-asian violence

Is there anywhere I can read about this elephant in the room? I'm not sure why the label is important here; is the implication that black people are ideologically motivated to attack Asians? Are you sure this was a hate crime (the driver was attacked because was Asian) or a crime of oppurtunity (the driver was attacked because he was an easy target)? Unless you are sure it was the former, the rhetoric sounds awfully close to the 13/52 dog whistle.

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