Anti-Asian Attacks

Hat tip Legal Insurrection

Anti-Asian attacks have been getting a lot of attention around the nation in recent months, and they should. As I have previously written, it is an issue of concern to me. I believe that it is not enough to identify the problem; it is just as important to identify the perpetrators. In this case, it could be safely said that the perpetrators come from a variety of ethnic groups-including whites. Are whites the largest group of offenders? That is open to debate. Personally, I doubt it, but I don't know what the empirical figures are. I do know from the reported cases-anecdotal if you will, that many of the attacks in US cities have been committed by blacks, but I would not guess as to the percentage.

The point here, however, is that many on the left want to single out racist whites as the biggest problem or in some cases, the only problem that matters.

Take University of Colorado at Boulder Professor, Jennifer Ho.  In a current article, she points out that some attacks on Asian-Americans have, indeed, come from blacks, but that it still all comes down to white supremacy.

 https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/04/u-colorado-boulder-prof-violence-by-blacks-against-asians-a-result-of-white-supremacy/

One wonders whatever happened to the old principle of personal responsibility?

Ho also makes this statement: 

"White people are the main perpetrators of anti-Asian racism."

Is that true?

In a historical context, I would say yes, absolutely. We go back to the Chinese Exclusion Act and the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War 2 as just examples. (Those were government actions, but during times when our government was almost exclusively white.) But if you are talking about today, in 2021, I would say that many groups have been involved. In other words, we must all look in the collective mirror and admit that blame can be spread around.

For Ho to point out recent attacks by blacks or Hispanics on the one hand, while ascribing those attacks to the notion of white supremacy on the other hand, is a piece of scholarly acrobatics. Keep in mind that this whole "whiteness" thing is something just recently cooked up by our academic community to assign blame for all the problems in the world to one group of people-whites (when they aren't doing the same thing with Israel). It is silly logic and not worthy of scholarly research.

But that's the way it is in our universities these days.