What People Get Wrong About Anti-Asian Hate (and Why It’s Harmful to Racial Solidarity)
<p>According to the University of Michigan’s <a href="https://virulenthate.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Virulent-Hate-Anti-Asian-Racism-In-2020-5.17.21.pdf" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Virulent Hate Project</a>, <strong>a report on news articles about instances of anti-Asian hate in 2020, 75% of perpetrators of physical attacks — and 89.6% of perpetrators of all forms of anti-Asian harassment — were white.</strong> These findings are consistent with a <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7790522/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">previous study</a>, which reviewed FBI hate crime statistics from 1992–2014; 75% of offenders of anti-Asian hate crimes were identified as white. These findings, while limited, counter the narrative that perpetrators of anti-Asian hate are predominantly Black.</p>
<p>While data collection is a key component of better understanding anti-Asian hate,<strong> focusing on the race of the perpetrators is extremely reductive and does little to help the Asian American community in the face of the attacks. </strong>Rather than focusing on the race of the perpetrators, we should strive toward understanding the conditions that allow for such violence and hate to occur in order to dismantle them.</p>
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