Another bogus claim of white supremacy
The shooting of six Asian massage parlor workers and three Caucasians in Georgia has prompted a massively dishonest media campaign to blame "white supremacy" for violence against Asian-Americans. Andrew Sullivan documented the fraud well in this justly renowned essay on Substack, titled "When the narrative replaces the news."
But the truth, as Shakespeare put it, "will out," especially when the victims of the wave of violence speak up, or when surveillance video of the attacks makes it to the internet. Melissa Chen has had it with the phoniness and writes in Spectator USA (picked up by the New York Post):
[T]he cognoscenti can only think one way, so it ascribed blame on Trump's rhetoric surrounding the 'China virus' and the eternal boogeyman of white supremacy. Vox showcased impressive mental gymnastics to explain that it was white supremacy that fueled the black-Asian racial hostilities while a sitting member of the Oakland City Council wrote in an op-ed that 'anti-black and anti-Asian violence comes from the same root causes: white supremacy and capitalism'.
Meanwhile, it was plain to see from viral surveillance videos that it wasn't MAGA-hatted assailants chanting 'Chy-na virus' or 'Kung Flu' as they took out defenseless elderly Asians. These attacks, mostly carried out by minorities in progressive cities like Oakland, San Francisco and New York, make it really hard to argue that the rhetoric of a former president is responsible for pulling the puppet strings of constituents who most likely didn't vote for him. Indeed, Department of Justice statistics show that while victims of violence tend to be targeted by perpetrators within their ethnicities far more than any other, Asian victims are targeted more by other races at the following rates: 27.5 percent black, 24.1 percent white, 21.4 percent Hispanic (compared to 24.1 percent Asian). This seems to suggest that the white supremacy thesis is extremely weak.
Considering that Blacks account for 13% of the population, individually, they are 8 or 9 times as likely to attack Asians as whites. And while there are some Whites who harbor racist sentiments against Asians, the evidence is that such racism is far more prevalent among Blacks. Consider the Black school board member in San Francisco whose anti-Asian tweets have been in the news, and who refuses to be canceled....
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The underlying reality is that many Asian Americans have excelled academically in this country, because most Asian cultures emphasize study and hard work as the path to success. And their experience in this country shows that despite any racism here, many Asian ethnic nationalities are out earning whites substantially....
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Schools should be teaching Asian study habits that make students successful not discriminating against them. Blacks could benefit more from doing that than making excuses for the failure that many have experienced. Whites should also adopt Asian study habits that make students successful It is shocking that academics have failed to adopt this approach.
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