{"id":299898,"date":"2021-03-24T11:45:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T15:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=299898"},"modified":"2021-03-24T11:45:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T15:45:44","slug":"shapiro-for-the-left-bigotry-is-a-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shapiro-for-the-left-bigotry-is-a-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"SHAPIRO: For The Left, Bigotry Is A Tool"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fshapiro-for-the-left-bigotry-is-a-tool%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=299898&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-3158.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This week, a white man shot to death eight people in Atlanta-area spas, six of them Asian American. According to Atlanta police, the man said he was targeting brothels and blamed the women for his alleged sex addiction. The gunman stated that he had visited two of the spas before and had planned to drive to Florida and target the pornography industry. So far, there is no evidence that the shooter was motivated by anti-Asian animus, making hate-crime charges unlikely at this point.<\/p>\n<p data-slot-rendered-dynamic=\"true\">Nonetheless, the establishment media and Democratic politicians quickly began reflecting the lie that the shooting was an anti-Asian hate crime, the latest outgrowth of a major uptick in anti-Asian hate crimes \u2014 all driven supposedly by \u201cwhite supremacy.\u201d White House press secretary Jen Psaki connected the alleged increase in anti-Asian sentiment to former President Trump, stating that his \u201ccalling COVID \u2018the Wuhan virus\u2019 \u2026 led \u2026 to perceptions of the Asian American community that are inaccurate, unfair.\u201d Racial grifter Ibram X. Kendi tweeted: \u201cLocking arms with Asian Americans facing this lethal wave of anti-Asian terror. Their struggle is my struggle. Our struggle is against racism and White supremacist domestic terror.\u201d Nikole Hannah-Jones, pseudo-journalist and de facto editor-in-chief at The New York Times, tweeted in solidarity: \u201cI stand with my Asian-American brothers and sisters, just as so many of you have stood with us. I grieve. We must own all of this history \u2014 ALL OF IT \u2014 and determine to fight for a truly multiracial democracy where we all can be free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"column--highlighted-text\">This is cynical politicking at best.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-slot-rendered-dynamic=\"true\">The same sources decrying anti-Asian sentiment have spent years expressing anti-Asian animus in the form of discriminatory college admissions standards: President Biden\u2019s administration dropped a discrimination case against Yale University just a month ago, clearly thanks to the administration\u2019s position that affirmative action for black students outweighs Asian American success in a pure meritocracy. The same people blaming \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d for anti-Asian hate crimes have militantly ignored the location of the crimes \u2014 largely major metropolitan areas, with a large number of such crimes coming not from white Americans but from black Americans (a plurality of overall violent crimes targeting Asian Americans, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, were committed by black Americans in 2018). The same establishment media sources blaming Trump for anti-Asian hate cheer on the active closing of merit-based magnet schools in New York and San Francisco, thanks to those schools\u2019 disproportionate Asian American attendance: Hannah-Jones tweeted last year that it was \u201cdisingenuous\u201d to talk about \u201cspecialized high schools being majority POC\u201d (people of color) when referring to Asian Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Here, then, is how the narrative works, according to the left: No matter the antecedent to any statement, the conclusion must be that America is systemically racist. When we are discussing Asian American economic success, Asian Americans must be treated as beneficiaries of a white supremacist system; when we are talking about hate crimes against Asian Americans, Asian Americans must be treated as people of color victimized by a white supremacist system. When a white person harms Asian Americans, as Trevor Noah explained, intent doesn\u2019t matter \u2014 animus can be assumed. When a black person harms Asian Americans, as NBC News reported, \u201cexperts say it\u2019s important to evaluate each case individually.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All of this is morally base. Anti-Asian animus is anti-Asian animus, whether it comes from woke school administrators or street criminals. To treat such animus differently based solely on the identity of the offender is to make obvious that you simply don\u2019t care about anti-Asian animus. For the left, it\u2019s just the latest club to wield against the broader American system, facts be damned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>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&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, a white man shot to death eight people in Atlanta-area spas, six of them Asian American. 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