Thread by @PeterMoskos

NPR's ideological cognitive dissonance on full display. Their facts support the "myth." Also, if A) Asian American aren't high earners, then B) Asian Americans are average earners or C) low earners. Which one is it? "Some are poor" is A) no duh, and B) doesn't disprove anything.

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1398285850874687492

There's something a bit comical about some young "data analyst" at NPR "discovering" that America's arbitrary racial categorizations hide significant diversity and ethnic categories _in_ racial groups. Wow! Who could have guessed that everything isn't always about race?

"Myth: Asian Americans face less systemic racism and discrimination"

I don't think people argue this point much at all. Those inclined to do so argue that Asians face plenty of racism and succeed quite well (on average) despite it.

Also, if it's myth that Asians "face less systemic racism and discretion"... well compared to whom? If myth, at least compared to Black people, just logically it would have to also be myth that Blacks face more systemic racism and discrimination. But who thinks _that's_ a myth?

If A isn't less than B. Then the correlate is that B can't be greater A. That's how it works. Unless, of course, A = B.

Also, Asians are much less likely to be shot or murdered than other minorities (recent hate crime not withstanding). At least in NYC. ~1.7% of shooting victims (between 1/1/19 and 10/4/20) were Asian, even though Asians make of 14% of the city's population.

Can this be true? That there were literally ZERO Asian murder victims in NYC in 2020? There are 1,175,491 Asian New Yorkers!

Though it's noteworthy that 15.6% of reported robbery victims were Asian. (And just 2.3% of robbery suspects.)
www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/do…

I think that has to be an error. 6.9% of NYC murder victims in 2019 were Asian. That is what one would expect (Asians being 14% of NYC). That's 22 victims. 22 Isn't a lot (unless you are one), but it couldn't have gone from 22 to 0.