How come the conversation is all on vilifying black people

MERAJI: So, AJP, even before the shooting happened, we knew that reports of abuse and harassment of Asian Americans was on the rise.

PERRY: That's right. The Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University documented 145% increase in anti-Asian hate crimes that were collected by police in major cities between 2019 and last year, so during the pandemic. And a brand-new report coincidentally came out on the morning of the shooting from the nonprofit Stop AAPI Hate. They counted 3,800 reports of anti-Asian incidents since March 2020. And these are self-reported incidents by Asian Americans. Around 70% of them were acts of verbal abuse and harassment. We're talking things like slurs, derogatory names, phrases like go back to your country. You're the reason for coronavirus. And another thing I wanted to note is that the majority of people who have been attacked are of East Asian or Southeast Asian descent.

DEMBY: So you said 70% of these incidents were verbal abuse, but that means a lot of them went far beyond that, beyond insults and threats, right?

PERRY: And then because there are so many people, not everyone's going to have the same thought or be equally informed. Still, as I was reading through all these comments, a big thing that stood out to me was that there seemed to be divide in how different people were talking about the attacks and processing them. A few commenters kept pointing out that the people who attacked these elderly men in the Bay Area were African American. They were saying things like, Black people hate Asians. These are Black-on-Asian hate crimes.

DEMBY: OK. So real quick, 'cause now I'm curious, like, what do we know about who was carrying out these attacks on Asian people?

PERRY: So I talked to a researcher from University of Michigan. Her and her team have been tracking all incidents of anti-Asian racism and violence that were reported in the news during all of 2020. I just want to back up and say that these numbers are spotty because a lot of these incidents don't get reported. So what the team did find out is that white people accounted for 90% of anti-Asian incidents in 2020, but only 5% of perpetrators were Black.

MERAJI: Yeah. And before the Atlanta shooting happened, this Black-Asian tension seems like it was dominating a lot of these online conversations.

PERRY: There were other people in these online forums pushing back, though. They were saying, let's stop saying Black people are the reason for these attacks and hatred against Asian Americans. They're not the problem; white supremacy is the problem.

DEMBY: OK. So this is what you found on these forums before the shootings in Atlanta, right? So since then, how has the tenor of those conversations changed? I'm curious.

PERRY: OK. Well, for one thing, the shooter in Atlanta is white, not Black. And the heat getting directed at Asian Americans is getting a lot more attention, like TiDo said at that rally before the shootings. But now it's magnified tenfold, right? It's, like, in headline news. Celebrities are getting involved. Big brands like HBO, Nike are doing the similar thing they did after George Floyd's death last summer - Instagram posts that say we stand with the AAPI community, #StopAAPIHate, all of that.

npr.org/transcripts/980437156

It’s crazy how the narrative doesn’t match the numbers

Whites are violent gaslighters???

I knew this I’m not surprised

Thread about to be a cesspoool.

I could imagine this getting locked on due time

Pretends to be shocked 😲

There’s a lot of users who were trying to insinuate certain things about black people in that other anti-Asian thread who will coincidentally be absent from this thread.

@ANIME oh wait..

Someone higher up is trying to make black people the face of Asian crime

Asians themselves.

It’s actually crazy how strong that narrative is lol I wanna say I’m shocked but not really. People gotta stop pointing the finger at us and stop looking at us to fix race relations with other races. F*** that. We tied.

Let's get this out the way rn

@ANIME @NiceLikeChrist ; can't remember the chef boy ardi niggas un

I never liked that ANIME but at least he upfront about what he was on.

I’m talking about others users who I catch throwing to shade towards black people in a more discreet manner.

hot pancakes too

Chef boy avi is @BA

Not surprising most black folks couldn't care less about Asian people but they're pushing the narrative that every black person and their mom is out there aggressing asians for some reason.

Definitely get that chef dude in here too

Post this on reddit if you wanna see a gigantic meltdown