The anti-Asian hate movement is ongoing in the U.S. Similar marches have been held in many cities at the end of March, and Chinese organizations are planning to launch a huge anti-Asian hate demonstration in the U.S. on April 4, which is this Sunday. It is not easy to find out whether Asians are hated in the United States. If the question is discrimination, I am afraid the answer is yes, because where there are people, there is discrimination. However, I am afraid that it is difficult to say whether we, as an Asian community, are subject to collective hatred.
When it comes to the issue of hatred, there are several issues that must be clear as Asians.
First, the current hatred against Asians does not come mainly from the dominant ethnic group, or, to put it bluntly, not from the white community. I am afraid that most Chinese feel and experience this point.
For example, in places like San Francisco and New York, where there are many Chinese, most of the attacks on Chinese and Asians actually come from blacks rather than whites. This is similar to the case of Jews being attacked.
Second, the systematic discrimination and hatred against Asians comes mainly from the Democratic Party. The Tong Yuan Association, the oldest Chinese American civil rights organization, sees this problem very clearly.
A statement from Tong Yuan earlier this month said, “No matter what, the CRT wants to get rid of too many Asians in good schools. CRT is today’s Chinese Exclusion Act. CRT is the real hate crime against Asians. crt is in our workplace under the guise of implicit bias/sensitivity training. It has infiltrated our schools under the guise of culturally/racially sensitive pedagogy with curricula such as the New York Times’ 1619 Project and Seattle’s Ethnic Math.”
CRT, that is, “critical race theory.” This is a major weapon of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, a theory that began to be promoted throughout the United States under Obama and to which race riots across America in 2020 are linked.
Another example is the Affirmative Action in Education Act, which is a balance of educational opportunities based on race. Chinese and Asians have a historical tradition of valuing education and Family, so they do better in school, but many children are “affirmed. This is systemic, and the beneficiaries are not whites, but blacks and Latinos.
Because of this, the Democratic media in the U.S. is usually more hesitant to address the issue of Asian victimization, discrimination and hatred. For example, the New York Times said that Asians are hated because of Trump, because he said the word “Chinese virus”. This is ridiculous in the extreme, because Chinese Americans are well aware that the hatred of Chinese by some people in American society has existed since before 2016.
Some leftist media outlets turn a blind eye to the injustice done to Asians because they wonder if Asian and Chinese people rebelling because of the hatred they receive will not hinder the movement of critical race theory.
Most on the left, identify Asians as white enablers and beneficiaries of an oppressive society in the United States, and therefore should be the community to be criticized. The most typical statement is that Asians are Morally White.
As far as I can see, most of the incidents in the U.S. with Asian victims are not really ethnic-specific. For example, when a Chinatown store was robbed, the robber did not think much about the ethnicity of the store owner, I am afraid, but his goal was the property. In New York and California, the majority of Chinese victims are black-related. This may be related to the social status and educational background of the perpetrators.
Two recent cases in the United States have attracted a lot of attention.
The first is the Atlanta shooting, in which six people died, four were Asian, one was white and one was Latino. This is a case that police do not believe is a hate crime against Asians.
The other was San Francisco, where a white man swung his fist at an elderly Chinese woman. It was said to be because the old lady was selling out her free handouts from her church.
The campaign against Asian hatred in the U.S. was thus launched on a large scale. Previously, many Asians were targeted and hated, in Seattle, in Portland, in New York, in San Francisco, but there was no similar movement, so why now?
Let’s look at the April 4th anti-Asian hating sign in New York, which was sent out by the organizers. A big black fist with the words Anti-Asian Hate. This sign, surprisingly, is so similar to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) sign.
In fact, there was a march against Asianophobia in New York on March 20. From the scene, this march and rally, although a number of Asians, including Chinese, participated, the organizers were not them. At the rally near Chinatown, most of the speakers were black, and most of those who maintained the traffic on the street were young and white people. “Black Lives Matter”.
Apparently, this was an Asian march organized by Black Lives Matter (BLM) in New York.
This explains why there are such marches and rallies now instead of last year when Asian stores were trashed and Chinese were beaten up more severely. Because now there are “finally” two white people.
On the other hand, this so-called Asian action, as far as I can see, is actually a movement centered on the Chinese in America. Most of the people involved in organizing these activities are the so-called hometown associations and chambers of commerce that are close to the Chinese Communist Embassy and Consulate. The names of these organizations are not at all unfamiliar to the Chinese, as they always shout Beijing‘s slogans when Beijing needs them.
Last week, the United States and China met in Alaska. Chinese Communist Party representative Yang Jiechi gave a strong speech criticizing the U.S. for slaughtering blacks and rejecting accusations from the U.S. because the human rights situation in the U.S. is so bad.
Is that a coincidence? I don’t think so.
Last weekend’s march against Asianophobia included slogans that had nothing to do with the civil rights movement. For example, “Support North Korea and China, oppose U.S. imperialism” and “Asian, black, Latino, and white workers unite,” and so on. Such slogans are simply echoes of Yang Jiechi’s strong statement.
I think that the organizers behind this campaign have given it a lot of thought. In the past, Chinese or Asian people would raise the issue of discrimination because the word “discrimination” is more common in the United States. But in this campaign, the positioning is “against Asianophobia”, not “discrimination against Asians”. Hate and discrimination may be somewhat similar, but ultimately they are different.
Because Asians are not economic victims, they are often better educated and have higher incomes. Critical race theory, which doesn’t make sense here with Asians, institutional discrimination and systemic oppression, why hasn’t the social status of Asians been hit hard? So hatred becomes a substitute.
Over the past year or so, more and more Asians, especially the more successful ones, have begun to lean toward the conservative Republican Party and away from the radical Democratic Party. This has the far left of the Democratic Party quite worried. They need a signature event, or a signature movement, to turn this around.
But this campaign against Asianophobia is bound to end up going nowhere, and nothing will come of it.
First, Asians are not likely to support North Korea and Communist China against U.S. imperialism, nor are they usually part of the industrial working class, and there are not many blue-collar workers of Asian descent.
Second, this movement has no specific goals. Against hatred, yes, we are all against hatred, not only against Asians, we are all against hatred of any human group. But how? What are the specific signs? Are there any specific demands? Are there actionable policies? The answer is no.
For the Chinese, their first major concern is schooling. Their children, can be treated fairly and have equal opportunities, like the dream that Martin Luther King said, is that society evaluates them by their individual character and ability, not by color or race. So Chinese and Asian children, they cannot be excluded from quality schools, they cannot be quotas to get into Ivy League universities.
The second most important concern is to pay less taxes. Chinese and Asians have an entrepreneurial spirit and they are more willing to start their own businesses. Back then, the Chinese Communist Party broke their heads over this issue because Chinese people are all born businessmen and are potentially bourgeois. This trait has played a particularly important role in the growth of the Chinese economy after Deng Xiaoping, where the Chinese are willing to suffer and are not afraid of failure. Of course, they, like all capitalists, do not like to pay taxes, especially not high tax rates.
Third, for most Asians, they are not oppressed by the police, and they need more police manpower and more patrols of Asian neighborhoods, such as Chinatown. So, they ask the city to increase the funding for the police force.
However, these specific demands of Asians are unlikely to be expressed by the movement against Asianophobia, because BLM won’t grant it, Antifa won’t grant it, and the Democratic Party won’t grant it either.
In contrast, the role of the Chinese Communist Party behind the scenes may be more harmful. Last weekend’s march was led by people dressed in red shouting down U.S. imperialism, saying they want to go back to China, etc. This is something that Chinese Americans in particular should be wary of.
As we have said before, the communist virus in the U.S. has begun to take hold, and they are now hiding in the Democratic Party, in the form of the extreme leftist wing of the Democratic Party. Their slogans are “equality,” “suffrage,” etc., but these slogans of the Marxists and Communists are especially unreliable.
In mainland China in the late 1940s, the CCP was fighting a civil war with the Kuomintang for power. In all the media controlled by the Communist Party, they repeatedly propagated “democracy” and “elections”, loudly calling for universal suffrage for the supreme executive and all members of parliament on a one-person-one-vote basis, opposing “one-party dictatorship They were against “one-party dictatorship” and control of the military by political parties, and strongly praised Western democracy, especially in the United States. A large number of Chinese people and intellectuals, dissatisfied with the government of the day and deceived by the high profile of the CCP, turned to support the CCP.
Ten years later, the CCP had gained power and gained absolute control over mainland China. By that Time, they stopped talking about democracy, universal suffrage disappeared from the dictionary, demands for nationalization of the military became a serious crime, and 2 million Chinese intellectual elites were detained.
Just a moment ago, I watched an interview with a medical expert who was studying the New Coronavirus. He said that one of their main research methods is to dissect the bodies of people who have died of the disease to see how the virus damages human organs step by step. I suddenly felt like an expert who was dissecting the dead communist experiment in mainland China.
It seems to me that the American communist virus is now spreading in the same way, and that “struggle” and “mutual hatred” are the first symptoms of this disease. Just like the democracy propagated by the Chinese Communist Party, we need to be especially vigilant against movements that are billed as “equality” and “anti-hatred” because what they need most is for us to hate other communities.
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