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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The recent wave of crimes against Asians is the worst in the last thirty years as far as I remembered. Yet very few of these crimes are classified as hate crimes. I have yet to see an announcement from FBI that they are investing the massage shooting to find out if this is a hate crime.[/quote]

Aren’t there certain markers of hate crimes that need to be in evidence to classify? Are all crimes hate crimes?

In order to control public outrage, isn’t it better to say there is no evidence of a hate crime if it’s the truth? It doesn’t mean they won’t bring evidence to light if it’s found. [/quote]
You mean, it’s better for white audiences to hear that a white man doesn’t seem to have committed a racially motivated crime? Because that is not what Asian Americans and women want to hear.[/quote]

Not saying that. But why do groups *want* to hear their group is a target of something if the evidence isn’t there (yet)? I can’t understand that. [/quote]
Our society is totally obsessed by race.  That may be natural in any society with a long history of racism, but it also means we unconsciously forcing racial narratives when the evidence doesn't warrant it.  The only evidence we think we need is the race of the victims and that's that.[/quote]

What do you mean by "obsessed"? Do you mean you're feelings are hurt and you're emotionally spent because you now have to think about your whiteness and how that whiteness plays a role in a highly radicalized society? Because welcome to my life. As an Asian American woman, I have never had the luxury of NOT thinking about my race or my sex. We are not "unconsciously" forcing racial narratives when we personally have experienced decades of racist and misogynistic comments from white men, when we have seen an exponential rise in crimes against Asian Americans with the rise of Trump and his racist dog-whistles, and when we see a white man blame his Christian evangelical Southern Baptist-informed "sex addition" on fetishized Asian women to justify his murder of six of them in a deeply racist southern state. It's appalling to me that you not only fail to connect the dots, but that you refuse to admit the [b]likely [/b]pattern.[/quote]

But you are calling it fact.  Is it likely, or is it definite.  Because people on this board are insisting it's definite.  Doesn't matter though.  It has to hold up in a court of law, as we are a country of laws.[/quote]

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