03-16-2021, 04:25 PM
(03-16-2021, 03:51 PM)Dill Wrote: Meantime,[color]
how does the insight that racism is not limited to any race help us understand the violence against Asians seen in Dino's post? E.g., if we agree there has been a rise in violence against Asians, and we can find 1) separate cases in which the perpetrators have been Latino, African-American, and White, and 2) in each of these cases there is no mistake about the racial character of the attack (e.g., because the perp used racial slurs), then in your view, what is the next step in determining the cause of the attacks, or more specifically, the rise in attacks?
A start would be acknowledging the different ethnicities of these attackers instead of trying to paint this as a white person only issue. As has already been stated, when the media talks about "the West" they mean people of European ancestry. Also, in OP, they took pains to mention the ethnicity of the attacker when they were white, and clearly omitted them (deliberately?) when they were not.[/color]
Quote:Could there be some change in the information environment which triggered already existing prejudice?
Could you ask a straightforward question? Do you really think there are a lot of black and Hispanic people hanging on Trump's every word or responding to him? Even if so, we are all responsible for our own actions, so understanding why these individuals decided it was ok to attack Asian people, in some cases multiple times by the same offender.
Quote:Curious--are you saying the "revision" is about the use of rifles for protection or that Koreans were targeted.
Quote:If I wanted to find out about the revision, where would I look. E.g., which historians or what books/articles should I be looking for?
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2021/03/11/why-the-trope-of-black-asian-conflict-in-the-face-of-anti-asian-violence-dismisses-solidarity/
The Trope of Black-Asian Conflict
These senseless acts of anti-Asian violence have finally garnered the national attention they deserve, but they have also invoked anti-Black sentiment and reignited the trope of Black-Asian conflict. Because some of the video-taped perpetrators appear to have been Black, some observers immediately reduced anti-Asian violence to Black-Asian conflict. This is not the first time that the trope has been weaponized. Black-Asian conflict—and Black-Korean conflict more specifically—became the popular frame of the LA riots in 1992.
The trope failed to capture the reality of Black-Korean relations three decades ago, and it fails to capture the reality of anti-Asian bias today. A recent study finds that in fact, Christian nationalism is the strongest predictor of xenophobic views of COVID-19, and the effect of Christian nationalism is greater among white respondents, compared to Black respondents. Moreover, Black Americans have also experienced high levels of racial discrimination since the pandemic began. Hence, not only does the frame of two minoritized groups in conflict ignore the role of white national populism, but it also absolves the history and systems of inequality that positioned them there.
As underlined, and expected, it's really about white supremacy people! There isn't an eyerolling emoji of sufficient power to respond to this.
