Violence against Asians is on the rise, hate crimes are up 1900%. And I also don't care how so-called 'pc' reporting Asian hate crimes is. It's very obviously anti-black. Every time Asian-Americans are on the news it's always oriented towards how good they conform to white society. You don't hear about the pain and suffering Asian people have to go through and this leaves ingredients for reactionary behavior. A news reporter referred to Black people as 'the Blacks' the other day. If you look at twitter, reddit, and tiktok comments, there are tons of trolls, the ignorant, and reactionaries stirring up trouble.

A lot of comments from both communities are, "where were asians/blacks when tragedy xyz happened?" A better question is, how come there's a lack of coverage of when both communities come together since the 60s? The media is pitting both communities against each other to cover up the fact that America has failed Black people in all facets of life, and to cover up for its lack of covid-19 prevention.

    • Barabas [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      It makes sense if you consider how often they post the image of the roof Koreans from the King riots.

      Black people and east Asians have been pitted against each other as the model minority and bad minority especially among "race realists" for ages. HK and BLM became opposite points in the reddit narrative in order to point at BLM as thugs. It is hardly anything new.

    • VernetheJules [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      It's their perfect opportunity to slander black people since you can make it look like you care about asian people. Liberals on reddit are primed by now to sniff out racists when it's white and black people. But since it's violence between two minorities, I suspect their brains are stalled. So without any intervention it's prime dogwhistiling territory. The current threads in this are just full of shitheads coming out of the woodwork to wax poetic about how asians are the "good ones" and black people aren't.

      So instead of having a meaningful discussion in good faith about interracial violence, they get to divide and conquer.