{"id":327230,"date":"2021-03-27T13:15:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T17:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=327230"},"modified":"2021-03-27T13:15:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T17:15:58","slug":"prager-the-latest-left-wing-anti-american-lie-anti-asian-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prager-the-latest-left-wing-anti-american-lie-anti-asian-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"PRAGER: The Latest Left-Wing Anti-American Lie: \u2018Anti-Asian Racism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fprager-the-latest-left-wing-anti-american-lie-anti-asian-racism%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=327230&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-3963.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>If you rely on The New York Times, the Democratic Party or CNN \u2014 they are interchangeable \u2014 for your perception of reality, you now believe America is reeling from the latest expression of white supremacy: Anti-Asian racism.<\/p>\n<p>It is a lie, the purpose of which is to:<\/p>\n<p>a) Further demonize America.<\/p>\n<p>b) Further demonize white Americans.<\/p>\n<p>c) Further divide Americans by race and ethnicity.<\/p>\n<p>d) Reinforce \u2014 or create \u2014 the belief among Asian Americans that they are widely hated (and must therefore rely on the government and especially the Democratic Party).<\/p>\n<p>e) Engender ethnic identity among Asian Americans, most of whom have heretofore essentially considered themselves Americans who happen to be of Asian descent.<\/p>\n<p>Is there anti-Asian racism in America? Of course. Ethnic bigotry is a tragic part of the human condition. There is no country in which members of different races live that is bereft of ethnic or racial bigotry.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the only question decent, wise or honest people ask is: How much?<\/p>\n<p>And the answer in America is: very, very little.<\/p>\n<p>But the Left lacks decency, wisdom and honesty. Therefore, it offers continuous reporting about anti-Asian racism, most of which so wildly exaggerates the issue as to constitute a lie.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s begin with last week\u2019s attack in Atlanta, in which a 21-year-old white man murdered eight people in Asian massage parlors, six of them Asian Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, there is not a shred of evidence that the Asian Americans were killed because they were Asian. The reason the shooter killed them, according to those who knew him before the shootings and investigators who have spoken to him since the shootings, was that he had a sex addiction, for which he had already been in rehab, and had frequented some or all of the massage establishments he targeted, which he blamed for contributing to his addiction. As of today, there is also no evidence of the killer ever having expressed any anti-Asian sentiments on social media or in private conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the lying media \u2014 a term that has become redundant \u2014 have portrayed the shootings from the moment they reported them as anti-Asian racism.<\/p>\n<p>Typical is this report in the Los Angeles Times: \u201cAsian Americans and their supporters gathered Saturday across California and the nation in response to this week\u2019s shooting rampage in the Atlanta area, which claimed eight lives, including six women of Asian descent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Atlanta lie is part of the greater lie that there is a national epidemic of white supremacist anti-Asian racism. On March 18, for example, The Washington Post reported: \u201cAnti-Asian hate crimes have spiked 150 percent since the pandemic began, according to a recent study.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study cited by The Washington Post, The New York Times, CNN and the other left-wing media is from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. The 150% increase in anti-Asian American hate crimes is contained in its \u201cFact Sheet: Anti-Asian Prejudice March 2020,\u201d according to which the number of anti-Asian American incidents rose from 49 in 2019 to 122 in 2020. So, the entire edifice of hate against Asian Americans is predicated on an alleged increase of 73 incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Given that there are about 330 million Americans, and assuming a different American was responsible for each of the 122 anti-Asian incidents, that would mean that 1 in every 2,704,918 Americans committed an anti-Asian incident. And \u201cincident\u201d includes perceived slights.<\/p>\n<p>As regards violent acts against Asian Americans, according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics from September 2019, blacks have committed the greatest percentage of violent crimes against Asian Americans. But the mendacious media do not report that.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times, the leader in mass hysterias fomented by the Left \u2014 hysteria is the oxygen of the Left \u2014 printed this headline last week: \u201cAttacks on Asian-Americans in New York Stoke Fear, Anxiety and Anger.\u201d And the subhead reads: \u201cHate crimes involving Asian-American victims soared in New York City last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Focus on the word \u201csoared\u201d and you will appreciate the Times\u2019 commitment to truth.<\/p>\n<p>If one reads past the headline \u2014 which most people do not \u2014 the article gives the actual numbers: \u201cThe number of hate crimes with Asian-American victims reported to the New York Police Department jumped to 28 in 2020, from just three the previous year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You read that right: The number of incidents \u201csoared\u201d and \u201cjumped\u201d to 28. In a city of 8.4 million people, including, as of 2010, over 1 million Asian Americans. So, about 1 in every 300,000 New Yorkers committed a hate crime against an Asian American, and about 1 in every 36,000 Asian Americans living in New York was a victim of a hate crime. To put this number into perspective, the odds of your dying in a motor-vehicle accident are about 1 in 9,000.<\/p>\n<p>Another New York Times article, under the headline, \u201cA Tense Lunar New Year for the Bay Area After Attacks on Asian-Americans,\u201d opens with this:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe videos are graphic and shocking. In January, a local television station showed footage of a young man sprinting toward, then violently shoving to the ground, a man identified as Vicha Ratanapakdee, 84, who had been out for a morning walk in the Anza Vista neighborhood of San Francisco. He later died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Times piece never reveals the name or race of the perpetrator: Antoine Watson, a 19-year-old black man.<\/p>\n<p>But, in what could be called \u201ccompound lying,\u201d the Times did blame \u201cformer President Donald J. Trump, who frequently used racist language to refer to the coronavirus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the Times did not provide an example of Trump\u2019s racist language with regard to the coronavirus. One must assume that blaming the Chinese government for the virus or referring to the virus as the \u201cChina virus\u201d or \u201cWuhan virus\u201d is regarded as racist, even though virtually every prior epidemic was named after its city or region of origin: the \u201cSpanish Flu,\u201d \u201cHong Kong Flu,\u201d \u201cEbola Virus,\u201d etc.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the blanketing of the country with the Atlanta lie and the anti-Asian violence continues. The cover of this week\u2019s Time features a drawing of a young Asian woman under the headline: \u201cWe Are Not Silent: Confronting America\u2019s Legacy of Anti-Asian Violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all a lie in service to the Left\u2019s hatred of America.<\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is \u201cThe Rational Bible,\u201d a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, \u201cNo Safe Spaces,\u201d was released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you rely on The New York Times, the Democratic Party or CNN \u2014 they are interchangeable \u2014 for your perception of reality, you now believe America is reeling from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311250,"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-3963.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"PRAGER: The Latest Left-Wing Anti-American Lie: \u2018Anti-Asian Racism\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327230","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-3963.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"PRAGER: The Latest Left-Wing Anti-American Lie: \u2018Anti-Asian Racism\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327230","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=327230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}