The liberal media developed a false narrative that Donald Trump’s COIVID-19 rhetoric incited white people to attack Asians. This narrative took a major hit because there was a non-stop parade of videos showing black people assaulting elderly Asians, so they paused on the reporting. NBC thinks they’ve gotten things back on track by claiming that you can’t believe what you are seeing and that it’s really white people perpetrating this wave on anti-Asian hate.
Def-Con News has been following the bullshit narrative that white supremacy is to blame for the recent wave of hate attacks against Asians. They only thing we found was black people attacking Asians, black people harassing Asians, and black people killing Asians.
But NBC proclaims:
Viral images show people of color as anti-Asian perpetrators. That misses the big picture.
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.
Wong told NBC Asian America that such dangerous misconceptions about who perpetrates anti-Asian hate incidents can have “long-term consequences for racial solidarity.”
Sorry, but one Wong doesn’t make a white.
“The way that the media is covering and the way that people are understanding anti-Asian hate at this moment, in some ways, draws attention to these long-standing anti-Asian biases in U.S. society. But the racist kind of tropes that come along with it — especially that it’s predominantly Black people attacking Asian Americans who are elderly — there’s not really an empirical basis in that,” said Wong.
If there were videos of white people beating the shit out of elderly Asian women, they would defiantly make the news, but they don’t exist like the avalanche of videos of black people attacking Asians.
Luckily, someone who works for Wong has an explanation:
“You have security camera videos that are more available and prevalent in certain types of urban settings. And so that’s what’s available to people in terms of sharing. The videos are more viral than if it’s something that doesn’t have any imagery or video connected to it, like something that’s happening in the suburbs, for example,” said Karthick Ramakrishnan, founder of AAPI Data.
This entire load of shit relies on people believing that there are no surveillance cameras, Ring doorbell cams, or smart phones in suburban white neighborhoods.
Ramakrishnan even went so far as to blame racist Asians for blacks attacking them:
Ramakrishnan said anti-Blackness among Asian Americans and the diaspora could also affect how such images are disseminated. Often, videos that confirm prejudices are shared not only on U.S. social networks but also on international messaging apps.
“These kinds of images and narratives of racial tension — Black violence on Asian people — are getting shared in Asia, as well. There is a transnational component to it. Whatever aspect of anti-Black racism or racial prejudice that some Asian Americans might have will also matter, in terms of what ends up being more prominent, because these go to social networks, especially through social networks apps, as well,” Ramakrishnan said.
“If racist Asians would stop sharing videos of blacks attacking Asians, blacks would stop attacking Asians” is one of the most astoundingly dumb takes of all time.
This manages to get dumber because Wong then explained that the “hate crime attacks” on Asians by whites are not actually violent:
Wong said many erroneous assumptions persist about the identities of victims and the types of hate incidents they have confronted. She said there’s a widely held belief that such incidents are generally violent, when studies show that most of the racism Asian Americans have faced because of the pandemic is verbal harassment or shunning.
So blacks are responsible for most of the physical assault against Asians, while whites make up the majority of the shunning? These two things are not the same.
Also, I’ve never seen a video of a white person committing a drive-by shunning of an Asian person, so this too is a lie.
This is NBC asking the question: Who you gonna believe? The fake news industry or your lying eyes?
