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Blogs > HetFlexK > True Hetero-Flexible Tales

HetFlexK 51M
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4/4/2021 12:23 am
a glaring disparity - the enemy is within

According to every news outlet, Asian hate crimes are on the rise. It’s the new BIG story, and an important one, don’t get me wrong. Is this increase truly sudden, or is it just suddenly being covered more by the press because it is the newest “sensation” that will get the most eyeballs looking at the page (printed or online)? I don’t have the answers, but I have noticed one glaring disparity that nobody else seems to be talking about. Where are the riots and protests? Where is the Asian Lives Matter movement? I know there have been some fairly peaceful protests, or gatherings really, but nobody is “up in arms” or so angry they are skipping days and days of work to risk being maced in the face or struck by rubber bullets. Why not? Do Asian lives not matter just as much as black lives?

My guess is this; BLM was not really a movement about lifting black people up, it was about protesting the clear, obvious, heinous mistreatment of those people by the police. It wasn’t necessarily pro-black so much as anti-cop, but to have anti-cop slogans, or boldly state your anti-cop feelings, was not going to garner nearly as much support - or allow people to guilt others into not following along. It would be one thing to say you didn’t support anti-cop attitudes but quite another to say you didn’t support black lives. The bottom line though, is that it’s never been JUST about black lives, and how they matter, it’s mostly been about how black people have been mistreated by the police. And that is why there is not even a hint of the same response to these anti-Asian crimes; they aren’t being perpetrated by the police. In fact, from what little I’ve been paying attention, I’ve seen that a lot of the attackers are black. Strange coincidence?

If the police had been involved in any of these Asian hate crimes the global response would be quite different. The outrage would double, as would the actions behind it. Instead, people are just publicly condemning what is happening and going on with their lives. Is it that Asian lives are less important than black ones? I don’t believe so. It is because the perceived enemy is not the police, but ourselves? I think that is the key.


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