The New York Times again avoided the issue of black-on-Asian hate crimes while supposedly covering the story of anti-Asian hate crimes in New York City: “Asian Americans Grapple With Tide of Attacks: ‘We Need Our Safety Back.’”
Donald Trump was instead blamed. Reporters Jeffery Mays, Dana Rubinstein and Grace Ashford deflected from the obvious racial angle to the killings in their evasive piece Monday, instead blaming reliable Donald Trump, who was out of office for many months when the assaults occurred.
As she was being swept in front her Queens residence in November, she was beaten so severely that she was in a coma several weeks later.
GuiYing Ma struggled to save her life. There were other assaults on Asian women. A mentally ill man pushed Michelle Alyssa Go to her death at Times Square subway station in January. The next month, Christina Yuna Lee was followed to her apartment in Chinatown and fatally stabbed more than 40 times.
Each instance was followed by a demonstration from Asian American organizations and elected officials across all political parties, demanding more to stop violence against their members.
It has proved difficult to reach unity in the fight against crime against Asians when it comes to strategies.
The Times reported that younger liberals have argued “against tougher policing and endorsing more progressive measures to address mental illness and homelessness.” Politically correct as always, the paper didn’t identify the race of the individual killers.
This is a growing trend. New York Police Department recorded 28 instances of discrimination against Asians, and made 23 arrests. In 2021, the police made 58 arrests and recorded 131 incidents — including the death on Dec. 31 of Yao Pan Ma, a Chinese immigrant who was attacked while collecting cans in East Harlem last year.
A member of the local Chinese community offered some stern criticism to reporters.
“We don’t care about your social experiment,” Mr. Yu said. “We need our safety back.”
The story went off on an odd tangent about “the oversexualization of Asian women,” before launching into knee-jerk anti-Trump idiocy.
The pandemic, too, is viewed as a driver of the uptick in attacks against Asian Americans; the coronavirus originated in China, and some, including former President Donald J. Trump, blamed the Chinese for the virus’s spread.
“I’m not going to let Donald Trump off the hook for the drastic increase in incidents that happened literally weeks after he began using words like ‘kung flu’ and ‘Chinese virus,’” said Representative Grace Meng, a Queens Democrat who in 2012 became the first Asian American elected to Congress from New York.
Latest update: Donald Trump was removed from office fourteen months ago. However, Times I would rather blame him for his past rhetoric than the real killers.
Most Asian Americans leaders are unanimous in condemning the tendency to see the crime as an African-on-Asian phenomenon. Racial divisions and stereotypes can “strain the community relationships that have been built,” said Vanessa Leung, who is co-executive director of the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families.
It’s odd for the reporters to finally raise the racial angle at the end, since they were pathetically careful to avoid saying “black” the entire piece, even though two of the killings they mentioned were committed by African-Americans with suspected mental health problems.
The answer is obvious. Times avoided mentioning the disproportionate number of blacks that instigated “hate crimes” against Asians, though the numbers are readily available.
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