Race hustling in overdrive

Vincent J. Curtis

15 Apr 21

RE: Anti-Asian Racism: This ends now.  An op-ed published in today’s Hamilton Spectator by Anna Zhang.  Zhang is a law student in Ontario.

The shooting in Atlanta of nine people in and around three massage parlors has set off an explosion of race hustling.  These days, there is no better thing to be than a victim, and being Asian, in particular Chinses, is the favorite victim de jure.  The article by Anna Zhang fits perfectly into the “white supremacist anti-Asian racist” narrative  too well not to print.

The Atlanta shooter, Robert Aaron Long, shot nine people in his rampage: two whites, one Hispanic, and six Asian women, four of whom were Korean.  All except the Hispanic man worked in the massage parlors.  Long claimed to be a sex addict, and he shot up these massage parlors as his means of eliminating temptation.  Long admitted to the murders –a death penalty offense in Georgia - but denied any racial motivation.  There is nothing here to suggest white supremacism is at play here; quite the opposite.

But that doesn’t stop the race hustling.

Speaking of verified anti-Asian racism, it is most prevalent in two places: in Ivy League universities and the Black community.  Ivy League universities have been caught repeatedly denying admission to qualified Asian students in favor of less qualified Black students.  The Black community has fostered violence against Asians going back to the 1980s in New York (Al Sharpton!), the 1992 Los Angeles riots targeted Korean-owned businesses, etc. Black-on-Asian violence is endemic throughout America.

Zhang’s unverifiable stories smack of a Duke lacrosse fantasy.

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