Recently, there has a been a spate of attacks against Asian Americas. Of course Trump is being blamed for these attacks rather than the perpetrators - for example: Man Arrested In San Francisco Stabbing Of 2 Asian Women.
Many activists blame the uptick in anti-Asian violence on xenophobic rhetoric and the use of racist language by former President Donald Trump and others to describe the coronavirus.
Funny, the attackers hardly seem to be the stereotypical Trump followers as painted by the media.
Indeed, media reports downplay, if not completely neglect to mention who is doing the attacking. And for good reason - if they did the whole blame Trump followers narrative for the attacks would fall apart.
Take Newsweek for example - they even list all the recent publicized attacks and don't mention even once in their story that the attackers were Black.
ABC for example in the New York attack by a woman with a hammer similarly neglected to mention the race of the attacker.
Rather curious, that.
Indeed, the latest, a knife attack in San Francisco on two elderly Asian ladies was by a fellow named Patrick Thompson. Almost every report completely glossed over the ethnicity of the arrested Mr. Thompson even after he was in custody. They would report his name, age, and criminal history but not his race, which was a clue. Take a look through the results of the Google search for more examples of how a rather relevant characteristic of the attacker is glossed over amnd how many you have to go through to find it.
Finally, a CBS website showed a picture of the scumbag which is the only way you learn his ethnic identity: Source: Man Arrested For Stabbing 2 Asian Woman in San Francisco Has Lengthy Arrest History.
Surprise! He's not exactly a White Trump supporter - at all. Also not surprisingly, he has a violent criminal history and has been arrested over 24 arrests in the last 20 years including previous stabbings, and yet is free to walk the San Francisco streets. He also likely has mental issues and again is free to roam and attack people.
For our media and their current obsession with race, its rather curious this gets such a lack of coverage - but not surprising given the reality.
The fact that Blacks commit hate crimes against Asians way out of proportion to their percentage of the population (over 27% of hate crimes and the majority of violent attacks against Asians are by Blacks, who account for 13% of the population) hurts critical racial theory and the current narrative that white supremacists (when those few who do actually exist manage to crawl out of their mom's basement) must be the ones to blame. I'm sure we will get some white supremacists crawling out form under a rock and doing a hate crime - which will then be trumpeted by the media far and wide, with their ethnic background prominently reported - until then, expect crickets.
In short, if the media glosses over the identity of the attacker of an Asian you can likely guess the nature of the attacker, and that the media is still trying to sell the rather now threadbare tale that these attacks are by white Trump fans against Asians. To do otherwise might require some reporting on some facts the media would rather not report upon.
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