{"id":290951,"date":"2021-03-23T11:46:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T15:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=290951"},"modified":"2021-03-23T11:46:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T15:46:15","slug":"anti-asian-violence-how-politicians-are-ignoring-data-to-divide-us-by-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-asian-violence-how-politicians-are-ignoring-data-to-divide-us-by-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Asian Violence: How Politicians Are Ignoring Data To Divide Us By Race"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fanti-asian-violence-how-politicians-are-ignoring-data-to-divide-us-by-race%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=290951&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2919.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Last week, \u201cA series of shootings at Atlanta-area massage parlors left eight dead \u2026 and after an extended manhunt, police have arrested a 21-year-old man who is believed to have confessed to the crimes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAlthough a motive was not immediately apparent, media, including The New York Times, began to speculate that the suspect\u2019s decision to target the massage parlors, staffed largely by Asian females, was indicative of an anti-Asian hate crime and connected the shooting spree to recent attacks on elderly individuals of Asian descent in places like San Francisco, California, and New York City,\u201d the Daily Wire <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/georgia-mass-shooting-kills-8-media-races-to-speculate-on-motive\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/16\/us\/atlanta-shootings-massage-parlor.html\">reported<\/a> that \u201cSix of the victims were Asian, the authorities said, raising fears that there may have been a racial motivation to the crimes.\u201d The other two victims were white or hispanic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There currently appears to be no evidence to suggest that these attacked were motivated by racism. Indeed, \u201cAuthorities said in a news conference that, based on his confession, they believe the shootings were \u2018not racially motivated\u2019 and that \u2018[the shooter] instead allegedly opened fire because he saw the locations as \u2018an outlet for him\u2019 to succumb to purported sex-addiction temptations.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, the narrative being promoted is that such violence is a symptom of anti-Asian hate being specifically promulgated by white supremacists as an ongoing result of Trump\u2019s presidency, with the Washington Post <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/03\/19\/atlanta-shooting-updates\/\"><span>reporting<\/span><\/a><span>&nbsp;that \u201cBiden, Harris denounce attacks on Asian Americans,\u201d while CNN <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/03\/18\/politics\/white-supremacy-racism-asian-americans\/index.html\"><span>wrote,<\/span><\/a><span> \u201cWhite supremacy and hate are haunting Asian Americans.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMany Asian Americans feel exposed by a torrent of dangerous and racially motivated rhetoric by national figures on a cultural crusade. Most prominently that includes ex-President Donald Trump, who presided over four years of rising racial tensions and often used division as a tool of personal power,\u201d Stephen Collinson wrote for CNN.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the political goal?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>If tragic incidents can be used for partisan gain, then they are condemned as further evidence of the central problem \u2014 in this case, white supremacy. If they cannot be used for partisan purposes, then they are either mischaracterized as necessary, or ignored completely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One such example of this strategy is the Left\u2019s attitude towards anti-Semitism, with hatred from white supremacists condemned \u2014 as they should be \u2014 while hatred from other groups is often dismissed or forgiven.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>All forms of violence committed against innocent victims is despicable, and those responsible for committing such acts should be punished as the law dictates. This conclusion makes no exception and applies no special treatment based on race. Instead, it treats each person with respect as an individual worthy of safety and respect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, this is unfortunately not the attitude demonstrated by much of the Left, who appear intent on keeping people focused on the \u201cracist legacy\u201d of Trump by leveraging certain forms of violence. The terrible attack in Atlanta is simply the latest instance of this cynical strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What does the data say?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>The available data on the subject of violence against racial groups essentially disproves the central assumptions of the Left.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to data from the U.S. Department of Justice from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjs.gov\/content\/pub\/pdf\/cv18.pdf\"><span>2018<\/span><\/a>,<span> there were 3,581,360 violent acts committed against white people, 563,940 against black people, 734,410 against Hispanic people, and 182,230 against Asian people. Every race <em>except for Asians<\/em> was most likely to be victimized by someone of their own race. 62.1% of attacks against white people were committed by someone who was white, 70.3% of attacks against black people were committed by someone who was black, and 45.4% of attacks against Hispanic people were committed by someone who was Hispanic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The relevant portion of this data runs counter to the Leftist narrative that anti-Asian violence is a crime unique to those apparently associated with the ideology of \u201cwhite supremacy,\u201d since the largest proportion of attacks on Asian people were committed by black people in 2018. 27.5% of attacks against Asian people were committed by black people, compared to 24.1% by white people and 24.1% by Asian people. Just 7.0% of these attacks were committed by Hispanic people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What about anti-Asian hate due to COVID-19?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Available data clearly indicates that the number of anti-Asian hate crimes has increased, and it is reasonable to argue that these are fueled \u2014 at least in part \u2014 by rhetoric regarding COVID-19. However, the problem here is not that hate crimes are condemned \u2014 after all, racism should always be rejected \u2014 but that other forms of hate are ignored despite a larger rate of incidence and growth.<\/p>\n<p><span>According to the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, there has been an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csusb.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/FACT%20SHEET-%20Anti-Asian%20Hate%202020%203.2.21.pdf\"><span>increase<\/span><\/a><span> of 149% in anti-Asian \u201chate crimes\u201d in 2020 compared to 2019 in America\u2019s largest cities. Looking at the data, New York City had the largest increase of 833%, with 3 incidents in 2019 compared to 28 in 2020. Philadelphia and Cleveland were tied at second with a 300% increase, both with 2 anti-Asian incidents in 2019 compared to 6 in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Yet again, it\u2019s crucial to acknowledge that <\/span><i><span>every<\/span><\/i><span> individual instance of violent crime or racist hatred is an immoral act which should be widely condemned. The important point demonstrated by this data, however, is that the narrative being pushed by the Left of widespread anti-Asian hatred fueled by unfettered white supremacists in every area of our society is simply unfounded. It is also demonstrative of an opportunistic and cynical political class who are seeking to use race to divide for electoral gain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This is supported when we consider the differences in reaction to other \u2014 less politically advantageous \u2014 forms of hatred. According to the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, for example, the number of hate crimes targeting Asians increased from 140 in 2014 to 158 in 2019. Given an Asian American population size of approximately 22 million according to the United States Census Bureau, this indicates an incident rate of 0.007 per 1,000. According to the same data set, the number of anti-Semitic hate crimes rose from 609 in 2014 to 953 in 2019. With a liberal estimate of 7 million Jews in the United States, that amounts to an incident rate of 0.14 per 1,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In terms of rate per 1,000, the number of anti-Semitic hate crimes is twenty times greater than the rate of anti-Asian hate crimes. However, just like anti-Asian hate, the issue is only raised when it can be used to launch a political attack against the American right by attributing every incident to \u201cwhite supremacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>One final time: all individual instances of hate should be condemned. In order to combat hate effectively, we need to understand the reality on the ground, which includes an honest analysis of the data. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When the data is ignored, one can only conclude that there are other objectives at play.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighaworth\"><i><span>@ighaworth<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, \u201cA series of shootings at Atlanta-area massage parlors left eight dead \u2026 and after an extended manhunt, police have arrested a 21-year-old man who is believed to have &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310989,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2919.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Anti-Asian Violence: How Politicians Are Ignoring Data To Divide Us By Race","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2919.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Anti-Asian Violence: How Politicians Are Ignoring Data To Divide Us By Race","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290951","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}