The same sources decrying anti-Asian sentiment have spent years expressing anti-Asian animus in the form of discriminatory college admissions standards: President Joe Biden’s administration dropped a discrimination case against Yale University just a month ago, clearly thanks to the administration’s position that affirmative action for black students outweighs Asian American success in a pure meritocracy.
The same people blaming “white supremacy” for anti-Asian hate crimes have militantly ignored the location of the crimes—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’ disproportionate Asian American attendance: Hannah-Jones tweeted last year that it was “disingenuous” to talk about “specialized high schools being majority POC” (people of color) when referring to Asian Americans.
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’t care about anti-Asian animus. For the left, it’s just the latest club to wield against the broader American system, facts be damned.
