These days, just talking about race issues in a critical manner will get you labeled a “racist.”
If you don’t regurgitate the tall tales of the mainstream media and social justice lunatics like a pirate’s parrot, you are suddenly “problematic” and must be pigeonholed and canceled as quickly as possible.
I will be called a racist for writing this article, but then again, what does that word even mean anymore? Almost anything can get you labeled as a racist now, so why should we care?
Facts are not racist. Facts are colorblind.
I was recently studying the latest “Asian hate crime” narrative, and as I examined data on the attacks, I was not surprised to find that the mainstream media narrative was once again completely fraudulent.
For the most part, the media tends to “lie by omission,” and it’s something they do on a regular basis. For example, the media consistently mentions “white supremacy” as a motivator for Asian attacks. Yet, the vast majority of recent “hate crimes” against Asians have been committed by blacks. This fact doesn’t really fit the propaganda model, so, the media doesn’t mention the race of the specific assailants, they just use the phrase “white supremacy” and lets their audience make assumptions.
Far-left outlet Politifact‘s analysis of Asian hate crimes does not make a single mention of the race of the majority of the attackers. They only mention the race of one attacker, the shooter in Georgia. This is not accidental; this is deliberate disinformation through omission.
And what about the shootings in Georgia? Weren’t those committed by a white guy? Sure, but what the media doesn’t talk about is the fact that those shootings were not race-related in the slightest. The FBI has confirmed this. Instead, the shooter was a “sex addict” who thought that he could remove temptation by getting rid of local massage parlors. The women being Asian had nothing to do with it.
The problem of black-on-Asian violence is so prevalent right now that social justice groups are trying to “discourage anti-black sentiment” because of all the videos surfacing of the crimes. Perhaps they fell for the disinformation too and assumed the attackers were all white? It’s hard to say, but no one in BLM is calling out black people and telling them to “check their privilege” and “stop the hate.”
Instead, social justice groups are taking advantage of the disinformation campaign. They are calling for “unity” and are of course using white people as their bogeyman to frighten minorities into joining leftist/Marxist causes. So, black perpetrators commit the majority of attacks on Asians, then BLM and others call for unity with Asians to stop “white supremacy”? How does that work…?
If this sounds insane to you, that’s because any normal person finds these events hard to fathom. That said, there is a method to this madness, and to understand it, you have to understand the propaganda tactic of “gaslighting.”
I will be examining this subject in detail in my next article, but suffice to say, gaslighting is an integral part of race-baiting. Making innocent people believe that they are the criminals and that the criminals are the victims is a classic strategy for controlling those innocent people and preventing them from retaliating or rebelling.
Do some white individuals commit race-based crimes? Absolutely. No one is disputing that. What I’m disputing is the notion that hate crimes are the singular domain of white people and the notion that it is white people in particular that are responsible for the latest attacks on Asians. So, to cut through the gaslighting, here are the facts according to the most recent FBI crime data (2019):
White Americans make up 70 percent of the population and are cited for 52 percent of all hate crimes (nearly 20 percent below the percentage of the white population).
Black Americans are 13 percent of the population but are cited for 24 percent of all hate crimes (nearly double the percentage of the black population). Black Americans are also responsible for over 50 percent of all violent crime.
Leftists often assert that many race-based crimes go unreported, and I actually agree; many crimes committed against whites by minorities are simply labeled “crimes,” instead of hate crimes. Crimes by whites against minorities get far more attention and are often labeled “hate crimes” before all the facts are in (just like the shootings in Georgia).
In many cases, there is not even proof that attacks labeled as “hate crimes” were actually race-motivated. It’s possible they were motivated by money, drugs or insanity. But again, this does not fit the media’s agenda, so such nuances are ignored.
The reality that most recent attacks on Asians are being committed by black people does not mean that there is necessarily an issue of “black supremacy.” Black people are not a monolith, just as white people are not a monolith. But there is indeed a double standard. Whenever a hate crime is committed by a white against a minority, the assertion is always that this is the product of a monolithic white supremacist organism and that all whites are somehow to blame. Whenever a crime is committed by a minority against another minority or a white victim, the media conveniently keeps skin color out of it, or, they still blame white people.
I would usually argue that we should be blaming the individuals that commit the crimes and leave it at that. There is, however, a group today that does represent a monolith, and despite their name, they are not organized by race so much as by ideology. I am of course referring to Black Lives Matter and other affiliated leftist groups. These groups have consistently advocated and defended random violence as well as massive destruction of property over the past few years as a means for political gain. Beyond that, these same groups have often been protected by government institutions.
Thousands of people involved in BLM-related crimes have been given get-out-of-jail-free cards by state and city officials the past year. Not only that, but they have benefited from endless media spin, telling the world that they are “peaceful” when most of the evidence is to the contrary.
It is not that black people, in general, are being given a pass; it is that BLM is being given a pass and this is creating a culture of double standards. I believe this is encouraging further violence among black individuals with a predisposition to crime. There are racists and criminals in every group and of every color, but the criminals and racists within the black community are being sent a message that they are immune to consequences because of BLM. So, they swarm out of the woodwork in droves thinking that they are now untouchable and are free to entertain their worst impulses.
Leftists love to preach about how freedom of speech does not mean “freedom from consequences.” This is obviously nonsense, and such musings ring hollow when certain groups are protected from consequences while other groups are scrutinized and punished for nothing. When an ideological cult is consistently told they are immune to consequences for the worst infractions, this inspires chaos. Psychopaths should not be given confidence, but this is what BLM does, and governments are also to blame.
I am reminded of the mass migrations of Muslims into the EU after most of Europe forcefully opened the borders of member nations and refused to vet incoming “refugees.” In the years following the surge in migrants, crime in parts of the EU skyrocketed. Much of this crime was attributed to migrant assailants. The problem was that numerous crimes went unpunished, and the European media and governments created policies that forbid descriptions of assailants in the news to avoid “racial tensions.”
Are Muslim migrants more predisposed to crime? Well, like any other group, when they are given a free pass and told they will probably never face consequences for their actions, yes, they are more predisposed. Governments and leftists in the EU created a social structure in which “diversity groups” and supposed victim groups are given more than equality, they are given privileged status. The same thing is happening in America right now.
To conclude, who is really to blame for the rise in Asian hate crimes in the U.S.? Social justice organizations and the governments and media entities that support and protect them. Immunity from scrutiny sets monsters loose on the world. Immunity from prosecution sets monsters loose on the world. Immunity from justice sets monsters loose on the world. And while some of these people will eventually be punished for their crimes, more and more crimes will continue to occur because bad people will continue to be encouraged by the precedents set by groups like BLM.
Written by Brandon Smith
