AAPI

So last year we heard a lot about the "surge" in violence against Asian Americans. Turns out that, statistically, Asians in America are not only at the bottom of the violence-victim hierarchy, they're the only group whose numbers are trending down.

Partly that may well be because there are so few acts of violence against them anyway; statistics get weird and unreliable whenever numbers are small. And it's good news, to be clear: no decent person wants them to suffer more violence. It's just another example of how our news is so fake and manipulated. We were all sold a narrative based on a few anecdotes and some polling that turns out not to be grounded in the broader reality.
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1 comment:

  1. douglas7:48 AM

    It may well be that random hate crimes against Asians were up even as murders were down. But you're right that anecdotal evidence isn't much to build an argument on.

    The stats about Black crime are an overwhelming argument though, or should be.

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