First let’s get this out of the way

Here you go:

voanews.com/usa/race-ameri…
And: “The research... revealed nearly 3,800 incidents were reported over the course of roughly a year during the pandemic. It’s a significantly higher number than last year's count of about 2,800 hate incidents nationwide over the span of five months.

nbcnews.com/news/asian-ame…
Just for good measure:

nytimes.com/2021/02/26/nyr…
Also, EVERY journalist will tell you that the reason evidence is so scant is because the pandemic is barely a year old and MOST law enforcement agencies haven’t compiled and released their annual crime statistics yet.

This motherfucker knows that.
Also, notice how he DIDNT say: “I haven’t seen any data, therefore I believe all the journalists, cops and ACTUAL ASIAN AMERICANS say.” Nah he’s like “Fuck all that, I need white people to verify this for me.”
But now that he knows, I’m sure he’ll say: “well since this guy so expertly did the same motherfucking Google Search I could’ve done before tweeting this bullshit, I now change my opinion.”

HA!

Have you MET white supremacy?
Anyway, we fixed that. Let’s move on.
One more thing:
Ther is no way to quantify WHAT causes any crime. All we have is correlation.

The reason we know poverty causes crime is not because robbers say: “I was broke.” It’s because the socioeconomic status of criminals correlated MORE than race or anything
Serial Rapists don’t say: “I hate women.” We correlate their behavior to their actions to know that most serial rapists are men and they commit crimes against women.
So there’ll NEVER be any data that says racial violence is because of white supremacy because MOST WHITE SUPREMACISTS DON’T THINK THEY’RE WHITE SUPREMACISTS
All we can do is correlate who COMMITS most of the acts of racial terrorism.

Luckily I actually checked
White men are the biggest terrorist threat in America. But, again, this dude’s bad faith argument almost SOUNDS like logic.

theroot.com/are-white-men-…
Because he’s dumb.

And racist.

And now we have data to prove it

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