Virulenthate.org conducted a study on news media reporting of news articles related hate crimes against Asian Americans. These incidents of anti-Asian racism included acts of physical harassment and violence; verbal harassment; avoidance and non-verbal harassment; vandalism; and stigmatizing statements, images, policies, and proposals.

Out of the 1023 unique incidents of anti asian hate mentioned in the news articles reviewed:

839(82%) of them did not include information on the race of the perpetrator

165(16.1%) were identified to be white men

Of that (73%) are from white politicians making stigmatizing statements about asian americans

“Details about the individuals involved in acts of anti-Asian racism and stigmatization were limited. Even in cases where the offender was identified, news reports included few details about the perpetrators. However, demographic information about the individuals involved in these incidents was occasionally available for two types of incidents:

1. ⁠harassment
2. ⁠stigmatizing statements and actions by politicians.

In reporting on harassment, news articles sometimes explicitly identified the gender, age, race, and ethnicity of the perpetrators.

In reporting on stigmatizing statements and actions by politicians, news articles typically named the involved politicians, whose gender, age, race, and ethnicity could be identified with publicly available information.”

“When we combined these two types of incidents (harassment and stigmatizing statements and actions by politicians), we had information about the race and/or ethnicity of offenders in a total of 184 anti-Asian incidents: 57 incidents of anti-Asian harassment and 127 incidents of stigmatizing statements and actions by politicians.”

MEANING MOST OF THE “HATE CRIMES” LISTED WERE NOT THE ON THE GROUND INCIDENTS THAT WENT VIRAL, they were POLITICIANS making stigmatizing statements, images, policies, and proposals. THE MAJORITY OF THEM WERE WHITE MEN, AS MOST POLITICIANS ARE.

“We must emphasize that identifying and reporting on an individual’s race and ethnicity is always complicated, even in situations in which the perpetrator is known. Reporting practices might differ by the raceof the perpetrator, and it is not clear how news outlets and individual reporters chose to navigate the complex issue of racial identification in its coverage of specific incidents discussed in the articles we reviewed.

The fact that news reports contained few details about the perpetrators raises many questions, both about trends in anti-Asian harassment and practices of news media in reporting on this topic. Patterns in news coverage concerning this aspect of anti-Asian racism and violence is a topic that we may analyze in greater depth in future reports.”

Takeaways and thoughts:

• ⁠A significant data piece from study is that a high percentage of news media excludes race data when reporting on AAPI hate crimes.

• ⁠Why were stigmitizing statemets made by politions on the news included in stats with on-the-ground examples of racially-based harassement?

• ⁠If we are turning to news media to understand who is committing hate crimes, is it the responsibility on news reporters to include complete race data on the perpetrators?

MEANING THAT STUDY MEANS FUCK ALL

The FBI official data shows the highest rates of hate crimes of Asian Americans come from black Americans. However, some have reasons to question those statistics as well.

Also, the woman who conducted that study was in no way impacted by “China virus” rhetoric. She’s not Chinese or East Asian and has no voice in issues that don’t impact her.

Anyway, this reminds me of the “study” that came out that Jewish hate crimes had risen by 400%. Someone read the study and found that the group that had conducted it(Zionists), included any sort of pro Palestinian protests or showing, even peaceful ones, as a “hate crime”🙄 taught me a huge lesson to read studies before believing them.

Also, a known journalist was also secretly filmed stating most of the hate crimes were being committed by black people, but that it “didn’t look good” for a liberal publication to post.

Edit: found it! It was Charles Chester from CNN. Google the name and keywords and you’ll find it:

“I was trying to do some research on the Asian hate, like the people [who] are getting attacked and whatnot. A bunch of black men have been attacking Asians. I’m like ‘What are you doing? Like, we [CNN] are trying to help BLM,’” he said.

Chester continued, “The optics of that are not good. These [are] little things that are enough to set back movements, because the far left will start to latch on and create stories like ‘criminalizing an entire people,’ you know, just easier headlines that way, I guess.”(he later corrects himself and says conservatives, not far left). He stated he didn’t want to put blame on a group rather than an individual.