{"id":208377,"date":"2021-03-23T00:08:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T21:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/media-trying-to-make-everything-about-white-supremacy\/"},"modified":"2021-03-23T00:08:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T21:08:29","slug":"media-trying-to-make-everything-about-white-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/media-trying-to-make-everything-about-white-supremacy\/","title":{"rendered":"#Media trying to make everything about ‘white supremacy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Media<\/a> trying to make everything about ‘white supremacy’<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The bodies of the victims hadn\u2019t gone cold, the families had barely begun grieving, when the familiar cottage industry of activists and journalists jumped in to speculate and spread misinformation on social media. What drove someone to slaughter eight people in three Asian massage parlors in Atlanta on Tuesday?<\/p>\n

A clear storyline took hold: this was white supremacy at work. A young, white man murdered six Asian women and two \u2018others\u2019 made the framing a foregone conclusion. Not even new information from the investigators could slow down the risk to judgment.<\/p>\n

Atlanta police chief Rodney Bryant said that it was too early to classify the shooting as a hate crime and FBI director Christopher Wray affirmed that it \u201cdoes not app<\/a>ear to be racially motivated.\u201d None of that stopped CNN declaring that \u201cwhite supremacy and hate are haunting Asian Americans.\u201d The suspect had told the police that the attack was not racially motivated; that he struggled with \u2018sexual addiction\u2019; that he was a frequent massage-parlor customer and carried out the crime to eliminate the sources of temptation. He was stopped by the police on his way to Florida, where he allegedly planned on continuing his rampage by targeting the porn industry.<\/p>\n

The only piece of evidence so far that potentially supports the racial animus theory is a report in a South Korean news<\/a>paper that the shooter had yelled out \u2018I want to kill all Asians\u2019. But let\u2019s be real. If the claim had even one iota of credibility, it would already have been reported all over a desperate media in search of a smoking racist gun. Nevertheless, the rumor did the rounds on social media and reporters parroted it unquestioningly.<\/p>\n

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This murder took place in the wake of a surge in anti-Asian crimes, which first gained momentum during the COVID-19 lockdowns and increased recently. Numerous videos of elderly Asians being assaulted and attacked have gone viral on social media; recent high-profile cases such as the unprovoked attack of a 84-year-old Vietnamese man in San Francisco who died of his injuries forced the national media to pay attention.<\/p>\n

Yet the cognoscenti can only think one way, so it ascribed blame on Trump\u2019s rhetoric surrounding the \u201cChina virus\u201d and the eternal boogeyman of white supremacy.\u00a0Vox<\/em>\u00a0showcased impressive mental gymnastics to explain that it was white supremacy that fueled the black-Asian racial hostilities while a sitting member of the Oakland City Council wrote in an op-ed that \u201canti-black and anti-Asian violence comes from the same root causes: white supremacy and capitalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, it was plain to see from viral surveillance videos that it wasn\u2019t MAGA-hatted assailants chanting \u2018Chy-na virus\u2019 or \u2018Kung Flu\u2019 while as they took out defenseless elderly Asians.\u00a0These attacks, mostly carried out by minorities in progressive cities like Oakland, San Francisco and New York, make it really hard to argue that the rhetoric of a former president is responsible for pulling the puppet strings of constituents who most likely didn\u2019t vote for him. Indeed, Department of Justice statistics show that while victims of violence tend to be targeted by perpetrators within their ethnicities far more than any other, Asian victims are targeted more by other races at the following rates: 27.5 percent black, 24.1 percent white, 21.4 percent Hispanic (compared to 24.1 percent Asian). This seems to suggest that the white supremacy thesis is extremely weak.<\/p>\n

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People protesting hate crimes against Asian-Americans in San Jose, California on March 21, 2021.<\/figcaption>
Xinhua News Agency\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What we have instead is an emerging picture, corroborated by friends and family, of a mass shooter who struggled with reconciling the sin of extreme sex addiction and his Christian faith. So much so, he checked into a rehab clinic for sexual addiction, blocked porn sites from his computer and only used a flip phone in order to avoid \u2018falling out of God\u2019s grace\u2019. It all culminated in the brutal assassination of the people he believed had led him into temptation and dishonor. In a way, this crime resembles more of an honor killing, a moral crusade steeped in misogynistic vengeance. He\u2019s more Elliot Rodger than Dylann Roof.<\/p>\n

The way this story and the discourse surrounding broader trends of anti-Asian violence has played out reveals the media\u2019s commitment to activism, in particular, to view and dissect everything through the prism of critical race theory. It\u2019s why previous anti-Asian assaults perpetrated by other minorities were largely ignored. When such incidents finally entered the national consciousness, they were explained away with white supremacy. NBC News even published an \u201cexpert\u201d view that insists that racial hatred inspired the Atlanta shooter because there \u201cwasn\u2019t a variety among the victims.\u201d <\/p>\n

You wonder if murderers now have to adopt Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives into their moral calculus before pulling the trigger so that they would be considered \u201cjust\u201d a murderer? Our media class has decided that just because an outcome of the murder is racist \u2014 six out of eight victims were Asian women \u2014 and the killer, a white male with incel vibes, that there is no doubt that white supremacy was the culprit, long before the authorities have made headway into the investigation. This is a test, and just like the Covington Catholic School and the Jussie Smollett story, the mainstream media is failing it.<\/p>\n

Adapted from The Spectator\u2019s US edition<\/em>.<\/a>\n <\/div>\n

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