[Attacks on ASIAN AMERICANS] Demand alleged Chinatown stabber be charged with hate crime

By artappraiser on Mon, 03/01/2021 - 11:34pm |

Is he suggesting that there is a growing realization that they shouldn't have opted out of playing in the oppression Olympics?

The large increase in violence over the past year hasn't really gotten the attention of progressive politicians in progressive cities. So it is understandable many Asians want these crimes prosecuted as hate crimes, because then progressives would care https://t.co/izU25BkHQ1
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) March 2, 2021

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looks like the answer to my question is yes:

In this case, it really doesn't look like it. But we had historic levels of violence in some cities over the past year and the collective response from Democratic pols was a collective shrug. But if the violence can be framed as racist, it might draw attention/resources.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) March 2, 2021

It's sad because the legal process shouldn't be politicized that way, but crime itself has been politicized, with certain crimes being prioritized and others being ignored based on how they fit certain narratives.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) March 2, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/01/2021 - 11:37pm

somewhat similar view:

“I’ve been constantly made to feel like I should be grateful for what I have, but what I really have is an uneasy, panicky feeling that I should have spoken up for more and sooner,” writes @kathleenhou https://t.co/NggSc73vy0
— The Cut (@TheCut) February 28, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/01/2021 - 11:45pm

interesting argument:

Stating the obvious is not anti-anything. If you can’t even accept the symptoms, how can you get to root causes? No, wait! Just choke it up to the euphemism of “white supremacy”. Forget about the thorny puzzle of welfare policy failures. @wesyang @realchrisrufo https://t.co/mR2LtCbsDs
— Wenyuan Wu, Ph.D. (@wu_wenyuan) February 27, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/02/2021 - 12:23am

Don’t blame white supremacy for attacks on Asians. As one famous writer reminds us, the line between good and evil runs through the heart of every human being. No group has a monopoly on hate and nobody is immune from prejudice. https://t.co/IZRABw7qOe
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) February 24, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/02/2021 - 2:43pm

Negative opinions of China rose rapidly in 2019, but there wasn't a wave of anti-Asian hate crime until 2020. To me that suggests that COVID (including Trump's rhetoric) was the trigger for the hate crimes, which then became a self-perpetuating meme.https://t.co/4jGCdvpkzl
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) March 3, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/03/2021 - 1:07am

call the social workers, the kids simply need to be taught the proper way to redistribute assets from one minority to another:

a 67-year old customer was attacked by 3 people in the area of Washington & Mason on 2/23.
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You can see he’s sitting in a chair, gets ambushed & dragged to the ground & robbed of cash. (1/2) https://t.co/vhyKHGVxco pic.twitter.com/wTkj0deWlK
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) March 4, 2021

Police documents show the 3 suspects could be linked to multiple car burglaries. @SanFranciscoPOA offering a $2500 reward for info leading to an arrest 575-4444 as @SFPD encourage people to use Chinese language/translation reporting hotline 558-5588 https://t.co/vhyKHGVxco
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) March 4, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/03/2021 - 8:23pm

"": that’s how District Attorney Chesa Boudin described to the @nytimes the man police say killed 84-year old Vicha Ratanapakdee.

His family is outraged and believes that is “no excuse” for murdering someone. (1/3) pic.twitter.com/LxpvAVk8wP
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) March 2, 2021

I also obtained police documents showing Antoine Watson was seen on surveillance going to a BMW after the crime— retrieving a cell phone & walk back to Ratanapakdee & appear to take photos of him as he was dying.

Vicha’s family was horrified when I relayed this to them. (2/3) pic.twitter.com/vVbMQnaW5U
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) March 2, 2021

I asked Boudin and his office to clarify the “temper tantrum” comment.

He and his office have not responded to multiple emails I’ve sent since our live interview over the double homicide of Hana Abe and Elizabeth Platt.

I did not receive a response today either. (3/3) pic.twitter.com/5mGbvJ5BOQ
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) March 2, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/03/2021 - 8:29pm

In Seattle, an Asian woman was attack by a stranger with a ROCK IN A SOCK. The victim was struck in the face, knocked unconscious and suffered a fractured nose and chipped teeth. Her boyfriend was struck in the head and needed eight stitches. https://t.co/OYSvREIQrk
— Angry Asian Man (@angryasianman) March 4, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/04/2021 - 2:34am

Feb. 27 thread of some pretty horrible NYC stories:

Announcement: I am temporarily suspending TurboVax

Anti-Asian hate crimes are out of control. I am taking a stand because I fear for my friends and family
— TurboVax (@turbovax) February 27, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/04/2021 - 2:38am

Jeremy Lin took to social media to address and condemn the rise of anti-Asian attacks in the U.S. The Santa Cruz Warriors guard says he and other Asian Americans are ‘tired of being told’ they don’t experience racism. pic.twitter.com/EPANB3msep
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) February 26, 2021

edit to add interview tape:

On Wednesday night, former Golden State Warriors player Jeremy Lin spoke out about the recent attacks on Asian Americans and opened up about his personal experiences with racism on the court. https://t.co/thPPuOM9sR
— KPIX 5 (@KPIXtv) March 4, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/04/2021 - 2:50am

touching Orange County story:

Neighbors Stand Guard to Protect Asian-American Family After 'Deeply Upsetting' Racist Attacks - People https://t.co/Rfv6knYIW1
— Ricky (@Ricky77939990) March 4, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/04/2021 - 2:48am

Wajahat Ali:

My latest for @thedailybeast on the rise of anti Asian American violence and how we all must step up to end it. With quotes from @hasanminhaj @IlhanMN @kumailn and @MsThiBui. We took it off paywall. I hope you all can read and share it please. https://t.co/wV1vAI02Gs
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) March 4, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/04/2021 - 11:33pm

Why Has There Been a Spike of Anti-Asian Hate? (NOTE UNDERLINED IN EXCERPT about growth in Asian immigration beyond Latin -American numbers)

A small yet aggressive segment of America refuses to accept that the country is made up of people from many different backgrounds.

By Jorge Ramos (Mr. Ramos is a contributing opinion writer and an anchor for the Univision network.) @ NYTimes.com, March 5

[....] From March 19 to Dec. 31 last year, the organization Stop AAPI Hate received 2,808 firsthand reports of violence against the Asian community from 47 states and the District of Columbia. Stop AAPI Hate was created in California in 2020 to track acts of violence against Asian-Americans, which have risen significantly during the pandemic. (A.A.P.I. stands for Asian-American and Pacific Islander.) These incidents have ranged from robbery and assault to spitting and verbal abuse. The victim’s race was cited as the primary reason for the attack in over 90 percent of the 2,808 reported cases.

Why is this happening?

“The rhetoric spurred by the previous administration when the pandemic started — using ‘China virus,’ ‘kung flu’ and all that kind of stuff — has made Asian-Americans a target to basically people who are racist,” [....]

It is hard to understand what would drive a young man to shove an elderly Asian man to the ground.

What is clear is that these attacks are occurring during not only a pandemic but also a cultural and demographic revolution in the United States.

According to the Pew Research Center, the Asian-American population increased by 72 percent from 2000 to 2015, making it the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, surpassing even the Latino population’s growth rate of 60 percent. This reflects the greater number of Asian immigrants compared with Latin American immigrants in recent years.

Based on 2018 data, the Census Bureau estimates that there are 22.6 million people of Asian descent living in the United States, representing nearly 7 percent of the country’s total population, with the largest communities coming from China, India and the Philippines.

By 2044, America’s white population may no longer represent a majority of the country, according to the Census Bureau’s calculations. And what we’ve been witnessing in the United States — on the streets of the nation’s Chinatowns, in the Capitol on Jan. 6 and in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 — is the resentment and incomprehension of a small yet aggressive segment of the population that refuses to accept that the country is changing, that it is increasingly made up of people from many different backgrounds.

As more nonwhite immigrants come to the United States, generating more economic and political power, their visibility will only increase. But so will the xenophobia and criticism they face [....]

by artappraiser on Sat, 03/06/2021 - 2:01am

There's a quote Vladimir Putin once said about the United States - "it's difficult to follow their logic. I think they need an external enemy to keep themselves in check."

by Orion on Sat, 03/06/2021 - 8:26am

We could follow Russia's example. Mass incarceration in gulags are a much better way to keep themselves in check.

by ocean-kat on Sat, 03/06/2021 - 1:48pm

Recent uptick in attacks on Asian-Americans in broad daylight has been insane but the response by our elite institutions has somehow managed to be even more absurd than that, wrote about it for my subscribers since I can’t be honest on twitter anymore:https://t.co/TFujiqTAHT
— sotonye (@cybersygh) March 2, 2021

They literally just won’t say who is attacking older asian men and women or even suggest ways they should protect themselves. What happens to a country that is so insanely stupid it can’t protect its most vulnerable people?
— sotonye (@cybersygh) March 2, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 03/06/2021 - 8:10pm

Asians, I keep warning you: NEVER TAKE THE SUBWAY.https://t.co/Fc4oHwOwz2
— Joseph Kahn (@JosephKahn) March 4, 2021

is a thread, he's been making a list

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/07/2021 - 8:07pm

I have seen many morally insane things posted on Twitter, but this thread by Mayor DeBlasio’s wife is above and beyond
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 8, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/08/2021 - 6:42pm

this piece is by far the absolute best op-ed/essay on topic yet, HE HAS THE BRAVERY TO GO THERE, where everyone else has been tippytoe-ing around, and profoundly and thoughtfully and with nuance

We Need to Put a Name to This Violence

The recent attacks on Asian-Americans have unearthed the contradictions and questions beneath America’s impoverished understanding of race. To solve the problem, we must first learn how to talk about it.

By Jay Caspian Kang, March 6, 2021. Here is an excerpt of roughly the first half, continue at link

In the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a dedicated group of community organizers, activists and academics banded together to address what the press had called the “Black-Korean conflict.” Their work, which included a march through Koreatown demanding peace and the publication of several studies, aimed to tell a story of mutual misunderstanding and media distortion.

In “Blue Dreams,” the first in-depth post-1992 study of the Black-Korean conflict, John Lie, a sociologist, and Nancy Abelmann, an anthropologist, wrote that while the fissures between the two communities had a long history, “the situation is not simple; the responses are not singular.” For example, they noted, “There are Korean-American merchants who work hard to better community life by holding neighborhood picnics, sponsoring sports teams and offering scholarships.” By casting out a constellation of exceptions, the authors, who certainly were not alone in this type of work, attempted to show that underneath all the media hype, real people were still sharing real community.

One can certainly understand the desire to reduce tensions and provide some path toward mutual understanding, but many of these calls for unity, especially those expressed in the endlessly nuanced, overly caveated language of that era’s academy, read in hindsight like desperate attempts to paper over the immensity of the divide.

The commonly observed reality was much more straightforward. It took the form of Latasha Harlins, the 15-year-old girl who, a year before the Rodney King verdict, was shot in the back of the head by a Korean store owner in an argument over a bottle of orange juice; the more than 2,000 Korean stores that were looted or burned to the ground during the riots that followed the verdict; the Korean men who carried rifles onto the roofs of their businesses in Koreatown and shot at looters who came near. And anyone who thought that the national news media had invented a race war out of thin air needed only to listen to Ice Cube’s 1991 song “Black Korea,” which warned:

So don’t follow me up and down your market
Or your little chop suey ass’ll be a target
Of a nationwide boycott
Juice with the people, that’s what the boy got
So pay respect to the black fist
Or we’ll burn your store right down to a crisp
And then we’ll see ya
Cause you can’t turn the ghetto into Black Korea

Over the past month, as reports of attacks on Asian-Americans, particularly Asian-American elders, have circulated, a new generation of scholars, writers and celebrities have tried to figure out not just what to do, but what exactly is even happening, and how to discuss it.

The public conversations, which have focused on rising xenophobia and what it means for a largely professional class of Asian-Americans, reflect, in many ways, the legacy of the scholarship following the 1992 riots. One can feel the understandable desire to reroute the conversation to safer and more familiar conclusions. The conversations also reflect a disconnect between the people on all sides who experience the violence — who are often working class — and the commentariat.

What’s different is the lack of clarity in the story. It’s still unclear what, exactly, is happening and even less clear why. This time, there is no easy line to draw from the history of a Korean merchant class setting up in Black neighborhoods to a girl lying dead on the floor of a convenience store; no buildings are being torched in retaliation.

What exists, instead, are videos that show Asians being attacked in cities across the country. Viral outrage usually requires sustained propulsion: One video usually isn’t enough because it can be written off as an isolated incident, but two videos released just days apart, both showing horrifying acts of violence, can create a narrative.

Two of the most widely shared of these involved elderly men in the Bay Area who were shoved to the ground by Black assailants. One of the victims, an 84-year old Thai man named Vicha Ratanapakdee, died from his injuries.

It is difficult to put these videos into a context that makes sense of them, leaving us with several unsatisfying interpretations. And not even the videos themselves are reliable — images of what was described as an attack on a second elderly Asian man, released shortly after the shoving of Mr. Vicha, prompted another round of outrage, including a $25,000 reward from the actors Daniel Dae Kim and Daniel Wu for information that would lead to the capture of the assailant. It turned out that the victim, a 91-year-old man named Gilbert Diaz walking in Oakland’s Chinatown, is Latino.

There are claims of a huge national spike in anti-Asian hate crimes, but they largely rely on self-reported data from organizations like Stop AAPI Hate that popped up after the start of the pandemic. These resources are valuable, but they also use as their comparison point spotty and famously unreliable official hate crime statistics from law enforcement. If we cannot really tell how many hate crimes took place before, can we really argue that there has been a surge?

There have also been reports that suggest that these attacks be placed within the context of rising crime nationwide, especially in large cities. What initially appears to be a crime wave targeting Asians might just be a few data points in a more raceless story.

There have also been condemnations of Donald Trump and how his repeated use of the phrase “China virus” to describe the coronavirus and his invocation of white supremacy might be responsible. But how does that explain the attacks by Black people? Were they also acting as Mr. Trump’s white supremacist henchmen? Do we really believe that there is some coordinated plan by Black people to brutalize Asian-Americans?

And there are writers who argue that Asian-Americans fall outside the accepted discourse about race in this country — that there’s just no available language to discuss bad things that might happen to them.

This last point is only partly true. There are plenty of words to describe discrimination at the hands of white people: white supremacy, microaggressions, the bamboo ceiling, Orientalism. What doesn’t exist now, or for that matter, didn’t exist in 1992, is a language to discuss what happens when the attackers caught on video happen to be Black.

And so, we are left with the videos, which transcend language and cultural barriers and exist in a space outside mediation and intervention. They have been viewed thousands, or even millions, of times by a people who are not really a people at all. There is no shared history between, say, Thai immigrants who saw images of one of their own attacked in San Francisco, and the Chinese-American population of Oakland alarmed by the assault in Chinatown.

Asian-American identity is fractured and often incoherent because it assumes kinship between people who do not speak the same language, and, in many cases, dislike one another. Solidarity between these groups is rare — the burning of Korean businesses during the 1992 Los Angeles riots, for example, did not produce a mass response from Chinese- or Japanese-Americans. But because the recent attacks seem aimed at anyone who looks Asian, they have translated across the language, country-of-origin, and perhaps most important, class lines that usually separate one group of Asians from another [....]

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/08/2021 - 6:52pm

turns out the viral video of the anti-masker California gals abusing an Uber driver has an anti-Asian angle as well:

They also yelled anti Asian slurs at him (the driver is from Nepal). I guess this is just another privileged Asian who SF decided is overrepresented at Lowell High... https://t.co/bbEMesnEhE
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) March 9, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/09/2021 - 1:46am

and a pepper spray angle, too! isn't this like a viral video trifecta or something?

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/09/2021 - 1:48am

Covid & Chinatowns looking back

Looking at Jing Fong's last moments and can't help but think about how devastating and completely unfair this whole thing is, especially when restaurants and services in Chinatowns paid far more attention to COVID than many others
— Tony Lin (@tony_zy) March 8, 2021

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 03/10/2021 - 8:43pm

Thread https://t.co/h5IjEUUlVG
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) March 11, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/11/2021 - 2:09am

EXCLUSIVE: 83-year-old Korean American grandmother in White Plains, NY... spit on, punched in her face, knocked unconscious, left lying in the street in her own blood. Why she forgives her assailant. H/T to my team @Syissle @JoshHartmann #StopAsianHate #asianhate pic.twitter.com/xLMjCThWTo
— CeFaan Kim (@CeFaanKim) March 12, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 03/12/2021 - 1:30am

The surge of attacks against Asian Americans requires attention and swift solutions, the Editorial Board writes https://t.co/FwRWMe3ktl PostOpinions
— Dr. Joseph Frusci (@JFrusci) March 12, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 03/12/2021 - 4:09pm

long thread of live reporting of LA rally starts here:

I’m in Little Tokyo where a rally against anti-Asian hate has started. It’s being hosted at the Japanese American National Museum. This courtyard is where Japanese Angelenos during WWII were rounded up before being put on buses for camps. pic.twitter.com/Ad0wWwSg0y
— Josie Huang (@josie_huang) March 14, 2021

includes this controversial bit:

None of the men want to give their full names except for David Monkawa bc foot patrols are a source of controversy in the community, seen by some as anti-Black and vigilantism. He says it’s impt to communicate to racists that Asians “are going to hit you back.” pic.twitter.com/WGUhTwNtvJ
— Josie Huang (@josie_huang) March 14, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 03/13/2021 - 11:19pm

Guy walks up to me yesterday in Manhattan and says, "Get the fuck outta here, you stupid bitch." Here, as in this country.
— Sarah Wang (@sarah_wwang) March 15, 2021

Asian hate is real right now. My Korean friend was verbally assaulted and sprayed with Lysol on the train last week in Brooklyn.
— Sarah Wang (@sarah_wwang) March 15, 2021

A white editor once chided me for referring to Bruce Lee as "little dragon". "Isn't that a little patronizing and insensitive?" She said. "The stage name he adopted and used for most of his career? I dunno, ask him." https://t.co/Xz1JSsRvAV
— Walter Chaw (@mangiotto) March 16, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/16/2021 - 12:01am

Outrageous! Racial Balkanization at its finest. Nobody wins. Zero-sum chaos. #Wokeism and #AntiRacism only add more to this nonsense.

Sellingwas my livelihood in my early years here. I am glad I didn’t get cancelled for being Asian. @ConceptualJames @realchrisrufo https://t.co/dgCJHzsC8B
— Wenyuan Wu, Ph.D. (@wu_wenyuan) March 18, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/17/2021 - 9:22pm

: @oaklandpoliceca have arrested the man seen on camera punching a nearly 80-year old Chinese man in the face in Chinatown.

His son Patrick told me he warned dad beforehand about going out.

Waiting to learn more about the suspect. #StopAsianHate pic.twitter.com/evMFAYAD3f
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) March 18, 2021

Thank you for asking me to share my experience of covering the hate #StopAsianHate https://t.co/0CvJnqA9Qa pic.twitter.com/ff9VLLxD7D
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) March 18, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/18/2021 - 4:27pm

Arrest in Market & 7th Street Attacks:

@sfpd have arrested Steven Jenkins. They say he assaulted 75-year old Chinese woman & 83-year old Vietnamese man yesterday.
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The man’s son sent me these pics. His fathers neck is broken in several places. pic.twitter.com/JWvYVtvvRX
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) March 18, 2021

This man’s son told me he had just finished buying broccoli & groceries when he was attacked.

The @cyc_sf is working on a @gofundme to help with his mounting medical bills. pic.twitter.com/hCrtfZ1vHH
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) March 18, 2021

San Francisco Police Make Arrest in Market Street Aggravated Assaults 21-067

MARCH 18, 2021 | 1:02 PM

On Wednesday March 17, 2021 at approximately 10:10 a.m., San Francisco Police officers from Tenderloin Station responded to the area of 7th and Market Streets for a report of an aggravated assault. Officers arrived and located two victims, a 75-year-old Asian female and an 83-year-old Asian male. The victims were transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Officers took custody of the suspect who was detained by a nearby security guard. The suspect is identified as 39 year-old Steven Jenkins. Witnesses told officers that Jenkins was involved in a physical altercation in U.N. Plaza approximately 30 minutes prior to the assaults. Following the altercation at U.N. Plaza, Jenkins approached the male victim and assaulted him. The assault was brought to the attention of the security guard who pursued Jenkins on foot. As Jenkins was fleeing, he assaulted the female victim. The security guard was able to detain Jenkins until officers arrived.

Jenkins was transported to a local hospital for an unrelated, prior medical condition. Jenkins was later booked at San Francisco County Jail on two charges of assault likely to produce great bodily injury (245(a)(4) PC), and two charges of elder abuse (368(b)(1) PC).

Both assaults are believed to have been unprovoked. Investigators are working to determine if racial bias was a motivating factor in the incident.

While an arrest has been made, these remain open investigations. Anyone with information is asked to call the SFPD Tip Line at 1-415-575-4444 or Text a Tip to TIP411 and begin the text message with SFPD.

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/18/2021 - 4:37pm

This is 83-year old Ngoc. He was 1 of 2 Asian seniors attacked along Market & 7th yesterday

Parts of his neck broken & he has other serious injuries. A @gofundme is being made.

If this image isn’t enough for there to be change in this city I don’t know what is #StopAsianHate pic.twitter.com/Ex6ZmXW24N
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) March 18, 2021

Who is Steven Jenkins? Very good roundup of available info.:

Steven Jenkins Wiki- Biography, Steven Jenkins has been identified as the man accused of attacking two elderly Asian people within minutes of being in San Francisco. The attacks occurred at around #StevenJenkins https://t.co/wvs4NtVTBy pic.twitter.com/FCT5wo6Mdl
— wikibioall (@wikibioall) March 18, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/18/2021 - 10:37pm

Wesley Yang tongue-in-cheek Twitter thread (reminder: not only the author of the best-seller Souls of Yellow Folk, but a bonafide Asian-American his very self!):

A major corporation can fire a black woman for old anti-Asian tweets but the true culprit is White Supremacy. My latest for the New York Times...
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 18, 2021

pic.twitter.com/WXLqNGyu7T
— Chris Falchenberg (@Chrisfalchen) March 18, 2021

https://t.co/P7Koo5KpFC
— berezina (@berezina) March 18, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/18/2021 - 5:04pm

Asians are successful because our cultures tend to value family and education.

It's not because white people treat us better as pet minorities or some other garbage.

It's freaking ridiculous that I even need to explain this.
— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) March 18, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/18/2021 - 11:12pm

In case you were wondering what Elaine Chao's husband thinks:

In his first public comments since the mass shooting in Atlanta Tuesday night, Mitch McConnell tells @axios in a statement: “Asian Americans should not have to experience discrimination anywhere” https://t.co/s30790G639
— Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) March 18, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/18/2021 - 5:29pm

White House @PressSec says there’s “no question” that the Trump administration’s “damaging rhetoric” has led to “elevated threats against Asian Americans.” https://t.co/nf3MkMqNoG
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) March 19, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 03/19/2021 - 2:00pm

30 REASONS TO RECALL THE SF SCHOOL BOARD

19. Commissioner Collins appears biased against Asian Americanshttps://t.co/lX2Q0IhFyw pic.twitter.com/LyAe6gty13
— Recall SF School Board (@recallsfboe) March 19, 2021

Here is the original tweet thread.https://t.co/gMZ0paiMwf
— Recall SF School Board (@recallsfboe) March 19, 2021

Seriously? Collins called Asians "house n****r"'s???
And also, she expects Asians, as a group, to obey her politics, or else she thinks there's something wrong with them???
Seems like she has control issues, and is projecting, about racism. pic.twitter.com/1qAkzs7z7Z
— TheUnsaid (@TheUnsaid11) March 19, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 03/19/2021 - 2:08pm

Horseshoe theory! https://t.co/yAnNrO73pD
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 19, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 03/19/2021 - 6:53pm

yes, Miz Collins is now in the process of getting canceled, this tribal oppression Olympics thing can be tricky

Hmm, a member of the SF school board that dismantled the competitive admissions policy at majority (54 percent) Asian Lowell High School referred to Asians that opposed the change by the colorful colloquialism "house n****r"...seems impolitic https://t.co/vKLI984hO7 pic.twitter.com/Jgh88sKByO
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 19, 2021

https://t.co/S9LaUU0L6s
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 19, 2021

https://t.co/esZCaOBL6W
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 19, 2021

(aside: I was once again impressed by Roxane Gay's ability to navigate new paradigms as she just published a NYTimes op-ed about workplace issues that prominently used a whywoman as an illustration representing all colors)

by artappraiser on Fri, 03/19/2021 - 8:56pm

as per a lot of posts above, and the news below, the Bay area is definitely a hotspot on the issue and has been since way before Atlanta

Violence against Asian-Americans has persisted in California, with many attacks happening in broad daylight.

This week in San Francisco alone, three Asian people were attacked, including a 75-year-old Chinese woman and a 83-year-old Vietnamese man.https://t.co/W3Oa9LJNMF
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 19, 2021

One shop owner in San Francisco has been so disturbed by recent attacks on Asian residents that he founded a group to help patrol Asian neighborhoods, handing out whistles and Chinese-language pamphlets to older people explaining how to report hate crimes. https://t.co/N0r2ehK6aE
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 17, 2021

Amid a wave of attacks on Asians in the Bay Area and across the U.S., California Gov. Gavin Newsom met with Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community leaders in San Francisco Friday to condemn the acts and commit to working with them to... https://t.co/RWVV0heepn
— KPIX 5 (@KPIXtv) March 19, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 03/19/2021 - 8:23pm

Andrew Yang's ideas on the problem vs. "activists"

Who elected these activists to speak for Asian Americans exactly? https://t.co/BZ4E0kRodq
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) March 19, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 03/20/2021 - 12:04am

"We will not stop the wave of violence against Asian Americans if we can't admit where it's coming from. Blaming white supremacists will almost certainly ensure that these attacks continue." Always read @ZaidJilani:https://t.co/It8n4Ch6tz
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) March 18, 2021

We are getting entirely new constructions on a weekly basis now https://t.co/e9oyLOtcwS
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) March 20, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 03/20/2021 - 12:10am

I do think this is mostly true, and awful. Why is this such a stubborn prejudice in our society, that so many suspect American citizens with Asian features not to be loyal Americans?! To our everlasting shame, even a liberal President fell prey to that once.

By @viet_t_nguyen and @ProfJanelleWong in @washingtonpost https://t.co/ip5PUy8soZ
— Timothy Yu (@timpanyu) March 20, 2021

I think it is more virulent than even that of questioning the loyalty of pro-Israel Jewish-Americans.

by artappraiser on Sat, 03/20/2021 - 2:22pm

Chinese have spied in Canada (militia training scandal), Australia (student scandals), US (Elaine Chao et al?), Pakistan, Frica...etc. Of course the % of Chinese visitors and Chinese-Americans taking part in this will be small, but just like acknowledging Wuhan as part of Chinese gov-managed source for Covid w/o blaming all Chines, acknowledging China gov as running some pretty serious spy and infiltration operations doesn't meant to blame or distrust all Chinese (or Asians, such as telling Koreans "go back to China", doh!

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/21/2021 - 7:15am

yes, but this is what I am talking about, this is the thing I really don't get:

My 5 yr old boy came home and asked me why bigger kid kept calling him Chinese Boy. My son, confused, told the boy I’m a New Jersey Boy. He laughed it off but my eyes welled up. 50 yrs ago my parents immigrated here but we cannot shake shadow of foreignness. #StopAsianHate THREAD pic.twitter.com/LIgU965ZhO
— Andy Kim (@AndyKimNJ) March 27, 2021

They are AMERICANS, not Chinese! You don't suspect the grandchild of a Russian immigrant with his father born in NJ to be a spy for Russia, or to have anything to do with Russia, for that matter. Not any more than any other citizen.

Why that suspicion that they are "others"? I just don't get it, most Asian-Americans I meet and see in pop culture seem VERY "American", as in: really rejecting "the old country". Lot of them seem to have way less fondness for heritage than those with European ancestry do. I.E. you have German-American, Irish-American, Italian-American festivals of all kinds with all kinds of proud participants. Whereas Chinese New Year is just basically a marketing chance to sell more Cantonese food and that's it, and I've yet to see a proud Vietnamese-American festival. And Korean immigrants, yikes, like instant westerners, that's what they wanna be, K-Pop shows you how.

Now you go to South Asia, that's a different thing, seems like Indian-Americans are often very loathe to give up a lot of customs and traditions, takes a longer time?

I dunno, I just see a lot of Americans with fareastern heritage to seem very very American.

by artappraiser on Sat, 03/27/2021 - 8:03pm

doesn't meant to blame or distrust all Chinese (or Asians, such as telling Koreans "go back to China", doh!

Just something to be aware of, not panic. We had same issue under Iraq and Afghan wars, etc - can't just demonize a whole people, so have to look for criminals and possible terrorists the normal way.

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/27/2021 - 9:08pm

Oh look. the Portland PD, while long depicted as the enemy of certain people, are the welcome protectors of other people, who'd thunk it:

Portland police are increasing their patrols in the Jade District after the deadly shootings in Atlanta this week.https://t.co/wwYGQKBIwZ
— KATU News (@KATUNews) March 20, 2021

"It will be helpful if they increase more police around this area," said Tan. "Two men stole more than $132 in food last week. Then one came in again. We refused to give him anything, but he took a cookie and ran away. It’s unsafe; we feel not safe, not just as a business, but the safety is important for this area too."

Those who live in the area like Roxanne Focht hope more police patrols will make the entire community feel safer.

"I think any sort of protection or any sort of feeling safe and comfort in your own community, anything helps, but it’s kind of sad right now," Focht said.

by artappraiser on Sat, 03/20/2021 - 2:35pm

This is a great read https://t.co/7Qf9FSt0fd
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 20, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 03/20/2021 - 5:06pm

When I see religion/church has fallen 20% (70 to 50) the last 20 years, i worry - not because believing the flood is important, but because believing forgiveness and atoning for sins are moral requirements *is*. We change. The world changes.

Yet woke values demands a pound of flesh - recurring?

Singal on the current fear of controversy: “If you were a 25-year-old journalist, why would you possibly touch one of these hot-button issues, when it could overnight ruin your reputation? I’m much more worried about those people than myself.” https://t.co/SnyACSY1iu
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 20, 2021

(Huffpost had a piece from a woman who fell madly in love, her boyfriend-quickly-husband equally in love, yet one night during a mixup or bad day or however atrupar/cop would put it, he beat her badly. Her mother flew out, took her home, they never talked about it again, she seems to have become quite successful (CEO in something trendy), but decades later she reached out to hear how desperately sorry and ashamed the guy was. And they are somehow patching things up, renewing their friendship. People do crazy things - most not every day, but often a few bad enough, especially during youth. Eventually we mellow and learn, but often carry these scars as culprit and/or victim the rest of our lives. Most *don't* seek help or contact later to make things right, heal our souls. What % are truly sorry? Would be interesting to try measuring.)

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/21/2021 - 9:51am

you got me thinking how a lot of more recent Asian-American immigrants, from many countries, are Christians, many fervently so. Life is complicated, people are complicated...

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/21/2021 - 2:37pm

more to your point and not to avoid it, related is THE topic du jour among journos and woke and anti-woke, along these lines:

Substack must be de-colonized in order to “center” voices that no one would ever voluntarily subscribe to
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) March 21, 2021

they are all talking about substack because it is again the capitalist model of news altered for clicks and also balkanization of info. Then, as is traditional everyone dismisses public funding, cause: lookit how bad BBC and NPR is, blah blah blah. Myself: I see no answer except: supporting EDITING of news and MODERATORS on social media. You can't expect perfection, it's not possible.

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/21/2021 - 2:51pm

Whoa, did you just question my infallibility? This was addressed in some encyclical or other.

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/21/2021 - 3:16pm

off thread--re:religion/church falling 20%. I just saw these tweets in rapid succession and I am thinking: Hillary and Joe fans maybe better start thinking about the need for possibly policing their own in the foreseeable future?

New religion just dropped https://t.co/PgnHbjfh5E
— Christoph (@Halalcoholism) March 22, 2021

If you don’t have faith, I don’t expect you to understand this tweet. For us, who still have faith, we have the gift of the Holy Ghost , to read the signs of our Time. #Peace
— Pittsburgh 4 Hillary and Now 4 Biden (@Pitt4Hillary) March 21, 2021

Joe Biden is one of the most religious presidents of the last 100 years (along with Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush). That is shaking up the faith terrain, @NickKristof writes. https://t.co/k2vyAiIsnq pic.twitter.com/ar8uSB7NJy
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) March 21, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/22/2021 - 2:27am

This Monday on Market and Montgomery in the heart of San Francisco. “Nothing is safe here in California. Especially for old people.” https://t.co/ptHMtslHEI pic.twitter.com/52p9iG8PPc
— James Cham (@jamescham) March 21, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/21/2021 - 2:41am

UBER ATTACK UPDATE: Malaysia King, arrested in Las Vegas, agreed Monday to be transferred in custody to San Francisco to face criminal charges. https://t.co/2hr0Z9r6hm
— KRON4 News (@kron4news) March 15, 2021

Uber assault suspect Malaysia King agreed during a court appearance in Las Vegas Monday to return to San Francisco to face charges filed against her in a videotaped confrontation with driver Subhakar Khadka. https://t.co/yciVjhiZnz
— KPIX 5 (@KPIXtv) March 15, 2021

With two women now in police custody after a violent videotaped confrontation inside his Uber, Subhakar Khadka took to social media Monday to thank San Francisco Bay Area residents for all their love and support as he recovers from the alleged attack. https://t.co/Hqo3T2431U
— KPIX 5 (@KPIXtv) March 15, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/21/2021 - 2:46am

Senior Asian Woman Robbed in Daly City

this happened around 3:40 Thursday along Sierravista & Norwood.

Police warn of “street type robberies” where suspects drive thru an area & target those walking. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/mse5odKQSL
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) March 19, 2021

You can see the woman flailing her arms trying to get someone’s attention @DalyCityPD are investigating.

PS: is bill SB82 passed it would make robberies like this w/o a deadly weapon or great bodily harm a misdemeanor. My story tonight. #StopAsianHate #StopAsianHateCrimes pic.twitter.com/a1PmqeFU0r
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) March 19, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/21/2021 - 3:14am

Since this morning, Detectives @NYPDHateCrimes have been investigating the following: On March 20, 2021 at 8:55 AM, at 196 Allen St, a 66-year-old Asian male was approached by a male who yelled at him and then struck him in the face. See pics. Call or DM @NYPDTips with any info. pic.twitter.com/3dXYni2BEq
— NYPD Hate Crimes (@NYPDHateCrimes) March 21, 2021

The individual is described as a light-skinned-male approximately 30-40 years old, 5'5" - 5'7" tall, 130lbs and was last seen wearing a brown jacket, gray hoodie, black pants, a black skull cap, brown sneakers, a black backpack and was carrying a white blanket.
— NYPD Hate Crimes (@NYPDHateCrimes) March 21, 2021

We want to thank the FBCA and Peter Tu for hosting yesterday’s forum for @NYPDHateCrimes and @NYPD109Pct to address recent incidents of Anti-Asian hate crimes. Thank you to @CMPeterKoo, Senator John Liu, and all that joined in person or virtually to have this important dialogue. pic.twitter.com/FyQNCAKb6c
— NYPD Hate Crimes (@NYPDHateCrimes) March 20, 2021

I note with interest that Counterterror task force rather than Hate Crimes was monitoring the Atlanta situation and Hate Crimes merely retweeted it

#NYPDCT is monitoring the shooting of Asian Americans in Georgia. While there is no known nexus to #NYC we will be deploying assets to our great Asian communities across the city out of an abundance of caution. #SeeSomethingSaySomething pic.twitter.com/Vl87DPRR8m
— NYPDCounterterrorism (@NYPDCT) March 17, 2021

and that the Hate Crimes unit also had meeting March 16 on Asian hate crimes with the 5th precinct focus:

Thank you to everyone that came out or joined us on Zoom today to discuss hate crimes affecting the NYC Asian community. @NYPDShea @NYPDChiefofDept @NYPDDetectives @nypdrecruit https://t.co/d2qiiVx6IY
— NYPD Hate Crimes (@NYPDHateCrimes) March 16, 2021

at the same time working with the Mexican immigrant community

We want to thank the Mexican Consulate here in NYC for hosting a Facebook Live event last night, where we were able to discuss hate crimes and answer questions from the Mexican community. We look forward to continuing to work together to make a safer city for all New Yorkers. pic.twitter.com/akhTysV6zR
— NYPD Hate Crimes (@NYPDHateCrimes) March 16, 2021

and apprehending anti-semite actors:

Another view-note the distinctive shirt-of individual who is #WANTED for the Shtreimel theft on March 12, 2021 at approximately 6:15 PM on the corner of Wallabout St & Marcy Ave #Williamsburg. Any info call #800577TIPS or DM @NYPDTips.@NYPDShea @NYPDDetectives @JCRCNY pic.twitter.com/Is5cdXJlPs
— NYPD Hate Crimes (@NYPDHateCrimes) March 17, 2021

This individual has been APPREHENDED. @NYPDShea @NYPDChiefofDept @NYPDDetectives @NYPDnews @ADL_NYNJ @JCRCNY @NYPD19Pct https://t.co/CPH13CDT7l
— NYPD Hate Crimes (@NYPDHateCrimes) March 18, 2021

so it's not like an exclusively anti-Asian epidemic in NYC, plenty of hate to go around and keep them busy with several groups, and once again, they were reading the Atlanta incident as more the province of Terrorism unit.

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/21/2021 - 3:50am

very good piece by Brian X. Chen. Not an op-ed, labeled "analysis" and does get into nuances like class divides and cultural divides among asian-americans themselves

There Is No Rung on the Ladder That Protects You From Hate - The New York Times https://t.co/nxp0Mj93gb
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 21, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/21/2021 - 3:00pm

Is Wang Feng saying here: be careful what you wish for, you just might get it?

Wanted: Asian people US networks can get on their shows discussing Asian people. https://t.co/f0OHb3rSsY
— Wang Feng (@ulywang) March 22, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/22/2021 - 2:07am

This thread was written 2.5 years after a SF school board commissioners called Asians "house n*****rs" and nearly 2 years before that commissioner refused to resign in the face of calls for her resignation from nearly every elected official, citing "context" and "nuance" https://t.co/nnsg8sVmco
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 22, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/22/2021 - 2:10am

People want this conversation to be about certain approved things and not about other forbidden things https://t.co/Smu1qBL75t
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 21, 2021

Q: Is the reason Stuyvesant High School was more than 70 percent Asian and that Lowell High School in SF was 56 percent Asian before the SF school board dismantled its admissions test "white supremacy"?
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 21, 2021

Virtually everyone authorized to answer this question will tell you "yes", since the "model minority myth" is used to make Asians a "wedge" to justify continued oppression of blacks and Hispanics
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 21, 2021

We should be making high quality schools for everyone, and using other useful admissions schemas -- such as the top 7 percent from every middle school proposal in NYC -- for other kinds of schools. No need to wreck something with a track record of success.
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 21, 2021

Schools like Stuyvesant and Lowell have the general run of public school teachers and the same resources as other schools in the system. The students make the culture what it is. Test based admissions schools are not for everyone -- but they are good for some.
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 21, 2021

These test based schools are one successful part of a public education system that works. Most of the rest of it doesn't work. Getting rid of what makes them distinctive will definitely hurt some without helping anyone else.
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 21, 2021

The effort to do so is based entirely on a manufactured crisis based on a reified and unreal understanding of general demographic figures and the desire for people to have a crusade where none is needed that will result in worse outcomes for everyone
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 21, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/22/2021 - 3:42am

There are 56 ethnicities in . Which one does the students group think Prof. Smith has offended? I am a Han majority and not yet triggered @GailHeriot @USanDiegoLaw @LegInsurrection @ConceptualJames @AsianDawn4 https://t.co/UTaNsNJmXi
— Wenyuan Wu, Ph.D. (@wu_wenyuan) March 21, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/22/2021 - 4:36am

Wesley Yang (heritage: half Vulcan )

No one has "checked in" on my mental health. They know that viral media narratives have zero effect on my sense of well-being and safety and that it would be insulting to me if they asked.
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 22, 2021

Like, sure, there's a genuine spike but hate crime figures are so low in absolute numbers that a 300 percent increase can mean from 6 to 18 or whatever
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 22, 2021

From "white supremacist violence" to "no one may criticize China" in 1.5 news cycles
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 22, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/23/2021 - 1:18am

Black male:

APPREHENDED and charged with a HATE CRIME. @NYPDDetectives @NYPD109Pct @NYPD9Pct https://t.co/dRBgyhxQNw
— NYPD Hate Crimes (@NYPDHateCrimes) March 22, 2021

Sunday, March 21, at 1137 AM near 51 Astor Place, a female 37, was en route to an Anti-Asian Violence protest A male asked for the sign that she was carrying, and then stomped on it. Victim asked him why he did that and he punched her 2X in the face. Please call or DM @NYPDTips pic.twitter.com/OgRCffCEuZ
— NYPD Hate Crimes (@NYPDHateCrimes) March 22, 2021

Frontal view of shirt. We need your help to identify this individual. If you know who he is, contact @NYPDTips pic.twitter.com/8nNEiroZHB
— NYPD Hate Crimes (@NYPDHateCrimes) March 22, 2021

another black male:

APPREHENDED. https://t.co/xsWU9SyaxR
— NYPD Hate Crimes (@NYPDHateCrimes) March 22, 2021

If you witnessed this attack, PLEASE, we need you to come forward, DM @NYPDHateCrimes, or DM @NYPDTips or call them at 1 800 577-TIPS. @NYPDTransit @NYPDTD2 @NYPD1Pct @NYPD5Pct @NYPDPBMS https://t.co/xsWU9SyaxR
— NYPD Hate Crimes (@NYPDHateCrimes) March 21, 2021

edit to add on same:

Prosecutors say more investigation needed before NYC subway attacker can be charged with anti-Asian hate crime; family says he’s mentally ill, but not a racist https://t.co/AFpGncYUDz
— A Great Big City (@agreatbigcity) March 23, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/23/2021 - 3:13am

"Kids, I forgive you" -- Attacked, Robbed & Dragged in Nob Hill:

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I spoke to a woman named Clarisse today who was walking home from church w/a friend Sunday afternoon when she was attacked at Polk & Bush Streets
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(1/4) #StopAsianHate pic.twitter.com/tO5adRM4am
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) March 23, 2021

3 ppl approached from behind and one grabbed her handbag. Clarisse didn’t let go. 1 suspect punched her in the face 3 times.
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She struggles & hangs on to the getaway car as it’s driving away. She eventually fell into the street where bystanders help

(2/4) #StopAAPIHate pic.twitter.com/SfRJ3hR3tS
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) March 23, 2021

Clarisse isn’t in much pain & her family didn’t want her to speak out. But she wanted to share her story to raise awareness of what happens in San Francisco.
⠀
To the young men: “I forgive you...& hope & pray you get what you need out of life...(3/4)

#StopAAPIHate pic.twitter.com/Dszc7N8ZBB
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) March 23, 2021

...but not in a way that’s criminal.”

She credits faith in God for getting her thru this. Now she wants to make sure the proper justice is served.

She doesn’t know if her race played a role. Her friend thinks so

(4/4) More on my IG & @abc7newsbayarea 11pm. #StopAsianHate pic.twitter.com/MnEDHQVcZH
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) March 23, 2021

Oh my God... That is heart of polk street.
— Michelle Tandler (@michelletandler) March 23, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/23/2021 - 3:11am

Last year, while working as security, a crazy black guy came in and started to berate an Asian woman with all sorts of racial talk. I did my job as a security officer - I made the individual leave and then had the woman she berated talk to a police officer. Because he never specifically threatened an attack on the woman and got physical, according to the law, removal was all that could work and arrest could follow if he refused removal.

It rightfully scared the crap out of the woman and was disgusting. America was already on this trip for some time but it doesn't take a lot to see how this response to Covid could get that hate directed at Asian Americans. IMO some of America's worst crimes are against Asians - I'm from Washington state, where quite a few Japanese Americans were put in to internment camps.

Back in those days, though, they had mental institutions to put truly unstable people and, however gun culture and gun distribution was, it seemed to be quite different from now.

by Orion on Tue, 03/23/2021 - 4:45am

new from the NYPD Hate Crimes Unit:

A big thank you to Terence Park and the Asian American Voters Alliance for inviting me to join them yesterday as they presented an award to @NYPD109Pct Detectives for their role in solving crimes perpetrated against Asian New Yorkers. pic.twitter.com/aD5LlEnssx
— NYPD Hate Crimes (@NYPDHateCrimes) March 24, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/24/2021 - 1:41pm

^ NOTE for the clueless: Asian-American Voters Alliance like the police, consider them allies and appreciate their work. Who'd thunk it.

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/24/2021 - 1:50pm

one who thunk it already, Andrew Yang, Asian-American and running for mayor, has studied polls (likes maths!) and knows he doesn't need to placate The Woke or BLM fanatics to win, probably just the opposite (after all, it's basically how both Giuliani and Bloomberg won multiple terms in a very blue city)

Andrew Yang gets mixed reaction after calling for NYPD funding at rally https://t.co/THIJWuLh0r via @nypmetro
— Secure the Yang (@DianeFarringt11) March 22, 2021

Andrew Yang called for the NYPD Asian Hate Crime Task Force to be fully funded in the wake of a mass shooting in Georgia and a steep uptick in anti-Asian hate crimes. https://t.co/xj7u293r6c
— POLITICO (@politico) March 17, 2021

AND OF COURSE FUCKING ANDREW YANG CALLS FOR MORE POLICE FUNDING. I HATE HIM. https://t.co/O92DYFSrZS
— Resilient Crier (@imnotbabby) March 17, 2021

from a Puerto Rican progressive in December:

I am a progressive and defund the police slogan sucks so bad. Listen to Andrew Yang for god sake! Change it to “Funding America” or some shit that both sides can rock with. Gotta be smarter now or the right will continue winning congress battles...
— PRFinest (@PRFinestGC) December 2, 2020

Andrew Yang did a poll where he has the same ideas and principles but named it two different things snd many Americans did not favor defund the police but were on board for names like funding for America Obama is correct on this matter.
— PRFinest (@PRFinestGC) December 2, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/24/2021 - 2:11pm

Black vs. Asian hate crime still going on in NYC?

Help identify the below individual wanted in connection to an assault. On Monday, March 29th at 11:40 AM, at 360 West 43rd St, a female, 65, was approached by an unidentified male who punched and kicked her about the body and made anti-Asian statements. Info?1-800-577-TIPS. pic.twitter.com/LkwfYhMCLr
— NYPD Hate Crimes (@NYPDHateCrimes) March 29, 2021

We need the public's help. The NYPD is aware of this video and is investigating. Anyone that has information regarding this incident is urged to call or DM @NYPDTips 1-800-577-TIPS and provide additional details including the date and time of occurrence. @NYPDTransit @NYPDnews https://t.co/fJmZC1QJac
— NYPD Hate Crimes (@NYPDHateCrimes) March 29, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/30/2021 - 4:10pm

Important P.S. I note they keep adding more manpower to the Hate Crimes Force. THEREFORE, one should not presume an increase in hate crimes even if numbers climb; one would have to add in the factor of more attention to calling them that, rather than just crimes as incidents might have been labeled in the past

We welcome 3 new Detectives, Howard Kwok, Daniel Zhang, and Max Rolfott to our @NYPDHateCrimes Team. Det Rolfott hails from Brooklyn's @NYPD70Pct Squad. Det Zhang, from Grand Larceny and Det. Kwok, from Narcotics, speak Cantonese and Mandarin fluently. https://t.co/ykDYkYmQKk
— NYPD Hate Crimes (@NYPDHateCrimes) March 29, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/30/2021 - 4:14pm

Cross link to Zaid Jilani's sensible argument about this, including tracking of and increase in numbers of AAs and Latinos shot in NYC past year vs. Asian/Pacific Islander

on March 25 news thread ASIAN AMERICANS FLEX POLITICAL MUSCLE

edit to fix cross-link

by artappraiser on Thu, 04/01/2021 - 12:16am

updated news about the kick attack on elderly Asian woman on 43rd street, NYC, on same thread (he was out on parole, murdered his own mother...)

Here is NYPD Hate Crimes announcement of the perp's arrest:

Thanks to assistance from the public and excellent investigative work by @NYPDHateCrimes Detectives, the individual wanted for Monday’s assault of a 65 year-old Asian female, at 360 West 43rd St, was arrested and charged with Felony Assault as a Hate Crime. pic.twitter.com/ZQRVGZEAb2
— NYPD Hate Crimes (@NYPDHateCrimes) March 31, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 04/01/2021 - 1:47am

NYPD Hate Crimes now offering $2,500 reward for more info. on perp on the subway beating incident:

Need MORE info re: Sat, 3/27/21, approx. 8:00 PM, 'J' Train at Kosciuszko Station, the perpetrator assaulted a male victim. Call 1-800-577-8477. Reward up to2,500 payable by Crime Stoppers upon arrest and indictment of the person(s) responsible for the above listed crime. pic.twitter.com/fLz6ThHgxy
— NYPD Hate Crimes (@NYPDHateCrimes) March 30, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 04/01/2021 - 1:51am

ANOTHER black male felon on parole arrested for hate crimes against Asians, this time in SF. this one ALSO had other cases coming up! still walking around til now!

A 45-year-old man who allegedly entered a bakery threatening to shoot Chinese people and "simulated shooting" patrons with his hand has been arrested by San Francisco police for a hate crime.https://t.co/FZ1BFXpJam
— NPR (@NPR) April 1, 2021

from SFPD press release on arrest, from March 31

[....] The suspect, later identified as 45-year-old Darrell Hunter, was taken into custody without incident. Officers met with the victim who told them that Hunter had entered the business, used a hand gesture to mimic a gun, and simulated shooting the occupants of the business. The victim said that Hunter then left the business.

This incident is being investigated by the SFPD Special Investigations Division as a hate crime.

Hunter was later booked at San Francisco County Jail on three counts of criminal threats (422 PC), two counts of burglary (459 PC), stalking (646.9(a) PC), three hate crime enhancements (422.75(a) PC) and probation violation (1203.2(a) PC). Hunter is on active probation for vandalism stemming from a 2018 incident where he entered a business on the 1300 block of Fillmore Street four times in 15 days, yelled racial epithets, and in one incident damaged restaurant furniture [....]

Darrell Hunter was arrested Aug. 20 for threats of violence, and July 4 for felony parole violation, threats of violence, violation of civil rights-force or threat, damage property-violate civil rights, $5000+ vandalism, and special allegation-HATE CRIME. https://t.co/w4Jex6TrCH
— Susan Dyer Reynolds (@SusanDReynolds) March 31, 2021

Here’s a classic example of ⁦@chesaboudin⁩ saying he “charges most cases.” Darrell Hunter was charged. He shows up as having two upcoming court hearings. Yet, he was out on the streets and committed another similar offense — for which ⁦@SFPD arrested him AGAIN. pic.twitter.com/hPy75ib9mD
— Susan Dyer Reynolds (@SusanDReynolds) March 31, 2021

#SF
Darrell Hunter arrested for "Threatening to shoot Chinese people"...

He's on probation for multiple incidents of yelling racial epithets in 2018...

Plus pending cases... pic.twitter.com/c8gY1R5K57
— Gazoo (@gazooly12) April 1, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 04/01/2021 - 3:31am

Video: Oakland Man Uses Machete To Scare 4 Robbers Who Target His Eldery Parents

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This couple in their 70’s got home f/ the grocery store Monday afternoon when they were approached by 4 men

(1/3)
https://t.co/lEPhNlL8QM pic.twitter.com/MJDIgrsbgp
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) April 2, 2021

They grab the woman’s gold chain & then reach into the man’s pockets & take keys and a cell phone.

The son told me he heard his mom screaming so he ran out barefoot w/the machete.

He is furious (rightfully so) & says nothing’s ever going to change.

(2/3) #StopAAPIHate pic.twitter.com/P3tEQXhlQH
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) April 2, 2021

I ran the plates & they don’t come up in the system so they could be fake.

The son wants to see the robbers do hard time but has lost faith in police.

I’m going to a presser w/OPD this afternoon where they’re announcing a Violent Crimes Operations center#StopAAPIHate (3/3)
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) April 2, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 04/02/2021 - 3:10pm

^ CLEARLY A DISGUSTING TARGETED OPERATION!!! Whether racial or not: yes, hard time, hard hard time, the purpose of civilization is not to have animals like this on the streets, end of story!

by artappraiser on Fri, 04/02/2021 - 3:15pm

Know him? Please help us identify him.
On 3/30, on a downtown “5” train approaching Times Square, an unidentified man began yelling anti-Asian slurs at a woman and her children. He then knocked the woman’s phone to the floor & kicked it off the train.

800-577-TIPS w/ info pic.twitter.com/SrAvxzEo6K
— NYPD Hate Crimes (@NYPDHateCrimes) April 4, 2021

the location described below is in Harlem:

We are still trying to identify individual WANTED for HATE CRIME ASSAULT: On 2/15 at approx 10:10 PM, on Lenox Ave between W 139 & 140 St in Manhattan, the suspect pushed a male and made anti-Asian statements & punched him in the face. Any infoor DM @NYPDTips 1-800-577-TIPS. pic.twitter.com/l6n6JH2qqF
— NYPD Hate Crimes (@NYPDHateCrimes) April 2, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 04/03/2021 - 11:01pm

SFPD confirm 55 & 60-y/o pushed & robbed 3/28 on Felton near Goettingen in Portola.

This neighborhood is where a home inv robbery happened earlier this month involving an 11 y/o inside & where 19 y/o Kelvin Chew was murdered last year.

https://t.co/jNTzdM7yyh #StopAsianHate pic.twitter.com/tS4bACmvVQ
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) April 2, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 04/03/2021 - 11:10pm

Head of the NYPD operation straight out tells A.P. in video interview that most of the incidents have been by mentally ill people:

Police: #mentalillness behind #NYC #Asian attacks https://t.co/pwThUCY60n
— )0( Sue Harrington )0( (@WildforestSue) April 3, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 04/04/2021 - 3:23am

It's becoming clear after reading about all these incidents that something totally different is going on in the Oakland/San Francisco area than in NYC.

NYC cops themselves and the news reports say the the attacks are mostly by mentally ill and of the hate crime variety.

In the Bay area, on the other hand, there are few of this kind of thing reported but a great deal of muggings and armed robberies targeted at Asians and Asian-Americans by young blacks.

I believe that the Asian and Asian-American population is a much larger percentage of the population in the Bay area? In any case, they are a much longer-lived presence there and have more neighborhoods consisting of speakers of Asian languages.

Although it is informed by hate or prejudice, it seems to me that it has become a "thing" among afro-american juvie types in the Bay area to target and rob Asians and Asian-Americans, because they are seen as being "easy marks" culturally, and more likely to have valuables on their person or in their home. For whatever reason, maybe because it is wrongly surmised that few will defend against attacks on them because they have become a hated minority since Covid?

On the other hand, it could also be a crime reporting difference? That NYC doesn't report race when reporting muggings and armed robberies?

In any case, here is one of the latest incidents in the Bay area, reported on by Glenn Greenwald, who at the same time in a surprise, reports he has been a victim of a similar crime in Brazil:

Glenn Greenwald was bound and robbed at gunpoint in his own house a few weeks ago. I’m guessing nearly every other journalist on this site (including me) would have publicly announced this immediately, if not live tweeted the whole thing. https://t.co/LHJY6Mvt4U
— Katie Herzog (@kittypurrzog) April 4, 2021

Both cases are horrific. Stories that Truman Capote might make best sellers. But are they hate crimes? Or just attacking and robbing what the perps consider a privileged class by reputation or neighborhood?

by artappraiser on Mon, 04/05/2021 - 1:09pm

well-done comedy rant on raw topic; he's a very talented funny guy, a new favorite of mine (though I would not agree with using the word "powerful" to describe it)

Bowen Yang offered an incredibly powerful message on #SNL against Asian American attacks. pic.twitter.com/m9E4inRo0m
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) March 28, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 04/04/2021 - 2:57pm

27% of Asian Americans report encountering anti-Asian hate in their lifetimes. 12% report having encountered it in 2020.https://t.co/bp7bdXxyFG pic.twitter.com/ZRXa7QiujL
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) April 6, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 04/06/2021 - 10:51am

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Russia plays weak hand in Palestine
Russia plays weak hand in Palestine

submitted by PeraclesPlease 8 months ago

The intra-Palestinian meeting in Moscow has precedent

Russia's hosted such meetings in the past, most recently Feb 2019

Russia has long lamented the US' "monopolization" of the peace process & tried to carve out a niche for itself: mediating among the disunited Palestinians/2
— Hanna Notte (@HannaNotte) February 29, 2024

Read the article at https://twitter.com/HannaNotte/status/1763116222256701787

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Mother Jones is Reaching out to Alternative Party Voters
Mother Jones is Reaching out to Alternative Party Voters

submitted by HSG 8 months ago

Here's what I told them: https://halginsberg.com/vote-for-jill-stein-again/

Read the article at https://halginsberg.com/vote-for-jill-stein-again/

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Controversial Brazil law curbing Indigenous rights comes...
Controversial Brazil law curbing Indigenous rights comes into force

submitted by artappraiser 10 months ago

Controversial Brazil law curbing Indigenous rights comes into force https://t.co/pCoDg05irX
— Gareth Harris (@garethharr) December 28, 2023

Read the article at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/28/brazil-law-indigenous-land-rights-claim-time-marker?CMP=share_btn_tw

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Security Alert: U.S. Embassy Port-au-Prince, Haiti (...
Security Alert: U.S. Embassy Port-au-Prince, Haiti (December 25, 2023)

submitted by artappraiser 10 months ago

Location: U.S. Embassy and residential compounds

Events: Heavy gunfire is occuring around the area of the U.S. Embassy and residential compounds adjacent to the Trutier area of Tabarre. All Embassy personnel have been instructed to remain indoors and shelter-in-place until further notice. All others should avoid the area.

Actions to take:

Avoid the area;

Avoid demonstrations and any large gatherings of people;

Do not attempt to drive through roadblocks; and

If you encounter a roadblock, turn around and get to a safe area.

Read the article at https://ht.usembassy.gov/security-alert-u-s-embassy-port-au-prince-haiti-december-25-2023/

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Pakistan Is Creating the World’s Next Refugee Crisis
Pakistan Is Creating the World’s Next Refugee Crisis

submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

By The Editorial Board @ Bloomberg.com, December 8, 2023

A mass expulsion of Afghan migrants could destabilize the region and fuel radicalization. The West should pressure Islamabad to change course.

Read the article at https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-12-08/pakistan-s-expulsion-of-afghan-refugees-risks-another-crisis

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Internet shut down in Chad
Internet shut down in Chad

submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

All eyes on #Chad right now
Chad has two internet trunks coming into the country: One from the Red Sea via Sudan; the other from Cameroon. Not possible for the totality of the country's internet network to be shut unless done centrally. A lot of rumors swirling; few facts. https://t.co/N6bDJZ2ixO

Read the article at https://x.com/_hudsonc/status/1732891968709992511?s=20

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[Economy] where Joe's success falls short
[Economy] where Joe's success falls short

submitted by PeraclesPlease 11 months ago

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[CRIME News] 3 loss-prevention employees in Macy’s across...
[CRIME News] 3 loss-prevention employees in Macy’s across the street from Philadelphia City Hall stabbed

submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

BREAKING: Three loss prevention employees in Macy’s across the street from Philadelphia City Hall stabbed, one of them has died from stab wounds, @PhillyPolice sources tell me. Police converged on the store as the three workers were rushed to Jefferson Hospital. pic.twitter.com/4U1eKycL4W

Read the article at https://x.com/KeeleyFox29/status/1731713272942940365?s=20

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Former U.S. Ambassador Arrested, Charged With Working As...
Former U.S. Ambassador Arrested, Charged With Working As Secret Agent For Cuba

submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

Former US Ambassador Arrested, Charged With Working As Secret Agent For Cuba https://t.co/LDwo4ZJI1K
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) December 4, 2023

Read the article at https://www.huffpost.com/entry/manuel-rocha-ambassador-arrested-cuba_n_656d1e2ae4b028b0f3d07478

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[War in Israel, Chapter II] UNRWA under scrutiny
[War in Israel, Chapter II] UNRWA under scrutiny

submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

[Chapter I news is HERE, Oct. 7 til today]

You don’t get it.
It’s not about an UNRWA teacher who held an Israeli kid hostage in his house.
It’s all about how for 75 years you have destroyed the future of generations of Palestinians, including my family.
My cousins in Arab countries are still not citizens - not even the… https://t.co/nv6anubGhc
— George Deek (@GeorgeDeek) December 2, 2023

Note 'Community Notes' attached to UNWRA's statement.

Read the article at https://x.com/GeorgeDeek/status/1731020551328579863?s=20

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Maduro, Under Pressure, Holds Vote to Annex Territory From...
Maduro, Under Pressure, Holds Vote to Annex Territory From a Neighbor

submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

Imperialism for me but not for thee?

It's wild that Venezuela is now holding a vote on whether 2/3 of Guyana actually belongs to them! Analysts suggest that Modoru may want military action to pump up his sinking popularity.

Could we have a war in South America?!?

"The people who live in Essequibo are largely… pic.twitter.com/QvMEjkkgwy

Read the article at https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/world/americas/maduro-vote-essequibo-guyana.html

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[Where is the GOP headed?] Divisions leave Florida’s House...
[Where is the GOP headed?] Divisions leave Florida’s House Republicans powerless

submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

The lack of a cohesive delegation has allowed attention-seeking lawmakers to act on their own.

McCarthy: “You have [Rep. Matt] Gaetz, who belongs in jail…”

Gaetz: “Tough words from a guy who sucker punches people in the back. The only assault I committed was against Kevin’s fragile ego.”https://t.co/LctPuz6Pcf

Read the article at https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/29/divisions-leave-floridas-house-republicans-powerless-00129200

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‘She got so mad at me’: book on the ‘Squad’ details AOC-...
‘She got so mad at me’: book on the ‘Squad’ details AOC-Pelosi clashes

submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

By Martinn Pengelly in Washington DC for TheGuardian.com, Nov. 30

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells Ryan Grim life in Congress ‘completely transformed’ after Democratic leader stepped down

Read the article at https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/30/squad-book-aoc-nancy-pelosi?CMP=share_btn_tw

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US health insurers Humana, Cigna in talks to merge -source
US health insurers Humana, Cigna in talks to merge -source

submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

@ Reuters, Nov. 29

Read the article at https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/us-health-insurers-humana-cigna-talks-merge-wsj-2023-11-29/

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Central Africa’s dinosaur regimes and the art of coup-...
Central Africa’s dinosaur regimes and the art of coup-proofing

submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

"Both the AU and the intl community place more weight on whether elections are held than whether they are free and fair. Sanctions/expulsions occur when there is a coup but not necessarily when elections are rigged or if an “institutional coup” occurs." https://t.co/m9dNimJP0D
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 28, 2023

Read the article at https://africanarguments.org/2023/11/central-africas-dinosaur-regimes-and-the-art-of-coup-proofing/

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