Cowardly NY Times Evades Awkward Fact of Black-on-Asian Hate Crimes

What a lame idea! The New York Timesbe in dealing with the current spate of racist hate crimes committed by blacks against Asians? This is pretty lame. Take their Monday story, headlined “In Fight Against Violence, Asian and Black Activists Struggle to Agree,” by Kellen Browning and Brian X. Chen, reporting from Oakland. They burned off 1,500 words about racial activists’ failure to communicate instead of addressing hate crimes head-on.

This spring, Black political leaders and civil rights activists delivered a message to Asian Americans: We stand with you.

Asian American activists and political leaders responded in kind, publicly acknowledging the daily reality of racism faced by Black people.

Yet “the results of that pledge are hard to find.” Why? The left-wing drive to “defund the police” was the sticking point, although that politically toxic phrase was only used once, in a quote.

…the tensions boiled down to one main disagreement: policing. While Black Lives Matter activists have called for reducing police budgets and decreasing cities’ reliance on law enforcement officers, Asian leaders say that police are crucial to preventing attacks.

The elephant was not there.

This contrast in attitudes highlights how different the relationship between law enforcement and race can be. Black Americans have been disproportionately killed by the police, while Asian Americans are among the least likely to be harmed in police encounters, according to multiple studies.

F.B.I. reports that hate crimes against Asians increased by 73% in 2020. According to the Mapping Police Violence advocacy and research project, this year’s police killings of Black Americans were 192, as opposed with 249 in 2017.

Who was responsible for these hate crimes committed against Asians This is the The Times neatly avoided mentioning the disproportionate number of blacks that instigated “hate crimes” against Asians, though the numbers are readily available in the same place the paper found its other data. These statistics are essential for understanding black-Asian relations.

Without condemning or commenting the radical anti-police ideology of black-led groups, reporters continued their reporting.

Carl Chan, president of Oakland’s Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, asked Gov. Gavin Newsom should deploy California Highway Patrol officers on the streets of cities so local officers can spend more time in Chinatown.

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But Cat Brooks, the co-founder of the Anti-Police Terror Project, a Black-led group, said adding more officers created a “totally oppressive environment” that was dangerous for people of color.

“Carl Chan’s ability to summon the ire of agencies which have historically brutalized Black communities is terrifying,” she said, adding that many Asian progressive groups agreed with her.

And equating Korean store owners “wrangling” with “poorer Black residents” in Los Angeles to Korean-owned businesses being “looted and burned” by black rioters is an offensively asymmetrical comparison. But the Times seems to think they’re equivalent, tucking both examples under the euphemism of “clashes.”

…there have been clashes. Korean-owned businesses in South Central Los Angeles clashed with poorer Black residents during the 1990s. After Rodney King had been beaten, four police officers were found not guilty, which led to tensions in the region. There were more than 2300 Korean-owned companies that were looted, and they were burned.

The following are some of the highlights. Times avoids directly addressing black-on-Asian violence, even hinting at blaming the Asian victims for being too financially successful, the outlet eagerly spotlights instances of unproven hate crimes by whites against Asians. This is a double standard.