{"id":1708240,"date":"2022-10-24T03:18:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T07:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1708240"},"modified":"2022-10-24T03:18:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T07:18:32","slug":"hbos-38-at-the-garden-is-one-big-lie-of-omission-about-asian-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hbos-38-at-the-garden-is-one-big-lie-of-omission-about-asian-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO\u2019s \u201838 At The Garden\u2019 Is One Big Lie Of Omission About Asian Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhbos-38-at-the-garden-is-one-big-lie-of-omission-about-asian-hate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1708240&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>HBO\u2019s recently released <a href=\"https:\/\/pressroom.warnermedia.com\/us\/media-release\/hbo-0\/hbo-original-documentary-short-38-garden-debuts-october-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">documentary short<\/a><em> <\/em>\u201c38 at the Garden\u201d tells the story of \u201can undrafted Harvard graduate\u201d who \u201cshocked fans, stunned his teammates and galvanized the Asian American community when he scored 38 points at Madison Square Garden against the Los Angeles Lakers\u201d in February 2012. Unfortunately, it also juxtaposes <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeremy_Lin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jeremy Lin\u2019s<\/a> \u201cstature as a groundbreaking, cultural icon\u201d with \u201cthe recent hate crimes against \u2026 Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisaling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">left-wing activist Lisa Ling<\/a> as an executive producer, there wasn\u2019t a chance that a retrospective on <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/sports\/jeremy-lin-admits-wasnt-always-comfortable-with-linsanity-new-hbo-documentary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cLinsanity\u201d<\/a> wouldn\u2019t be hopelessly woke. But that\u2019s no reason to spare the execrable \u201c38 at the Garden\u201d a well-deserved bashing.<\/p>\n<p>The spectacle starts immediately, as the incredibly unfunny comedians Hasan Minhaj and Jenny Yang explain what most Americans think about Asians with no reference to polling or focus-group findings. With his Emmy and Peabody awards visible over his right shoulder, Minhaj lectures that someone viewed as \u201csmall, passive, diminutive, unathletic, and submissive\u201d cannot be perceived as \u201cbrave, courageous, covetable, desirable, or a leader.\u201d Yang gets more specific and says Asians are viewed as \u201cdry cleaners,\u201d \u201cIT guys,\u201d \u201cemasculated, no-d-ck-having, no-luck-with-women-having dudes,\u201d \u201cdragon lady,\u201d \u201csex workers,\u201d and \u201cmasseuses\u2019 happy endings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Given that people of Asian descent in the United States outperform all other groups in socioeconomic metrics such as out-of-wedlock births, divorce rates, life expectancy, educational attainment, and household income, it\u2019s at least theoretically possible that non-Asian Americans admire the cohort\u2019s penchant for hard work, knowledge and skill cultivation, strong family and community ties, and clean living. Someone should inform Minhaj and Yang.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s Lin himself who \u2014 unintentionally, one hopes \u2014 commits the documentary\u2019s worst foul. Dutifully parroting the dubious charge that white supremacists are running amok, targeting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health\/bipoc-meaning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BIPOCs<\/a>, he asserts that today, \u201cIt\u2019s like the worst time to be an Asian American.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Really?<\/p>\n<p>Worse than in 1942, when liberal icon Franklin D. Roosevelt signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/historical-docs\/todays-doc\/?dod-date=219\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Executive Order 9066<\/a>, sending 120,000 Japanese people \u2014 the majority, U.S. citizens \u2014 off to internment camps?<\/p>\n<p>Or worse than the myriad large-scale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyohistory.org\/encyclopedia\/rock-springs-massacre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">atrocities<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/video\/oregon-experience-massacre-hells-canyon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hate crimes<\/a> committed against Asians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2021-10-24\/150th-anniversary-los-angeles-chinese-massacre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">across the country<\/a> in the 19th and 20th centuries?<\/p>\n<p>Lin didn\u2019t learn much about U.S. history at Harvard, evidently. The bias and brutality Asians had to overcome in past centuries is a testament to their undaunted tenacity and America\u2019s national progress in putting prejudice in its rearview mirror.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, the narrative of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/crime-and-justice\/commentary\/asian-americans-should-be-skeptical-the-stopasianhate-campaign\">white supremacy posing a risk to Asian Americans<\/a> has no credibility. Earlier this month, in a detailed analysis, the Manhattan Institute\u2019s Diane Yap <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/anti-asian-violence-separating-truth-from-narrative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">concluded<\/a>: \u201cThe refrain that most anti-Asian crimes are committed by white people is misleading, if not meaningless.\u201d Severe methodological defects and the corporate media\u2019s laziness and knee-jerk receptivity to any accusation that the United States is irredeemably racist aid the woke mob\u2019s \u201cattempt to redirect outrage.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yap also noted that a focus on rare \u201chate crimes\u201d ignores important questions:<\/p>\n<p><em>A more pertinent question would be: \u201cWho is responsible for the greatest proportion of violent crimes against Asians?\u201d The Criminal Victimization report from<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Lin deserves better than \u201838 at the Garden.&#8217; Asian Americans do, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1464,"featured_media":1708243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1708243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}