Some information, and helpful advice for my Asian-American friends

Reblogging with permission of RBabe.

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By now, most everyone is familiar with the tragic shootings in Atlanta last week.  An obviously mentally-ill young man, who was worried that the massage parlors he hit were contributing to his “sex addiction”, went to more than one such business in the Atlanta area, and killed eight employees, most of whom were of Asian descent.  As we have come to expect, the so-called “Press”, through their inaccurate and inflammatory reporting, made the crimes sound like “hate crimes”, where the assailant went after his victims because they were Asian.

The press made the crimes, which were awful in themselves, sound like they were aimed at Asians in a discriminatory manner.  This was emphatically NOT the case here, but all the members of the press, including the Wall Street Journal, are painting this like an anti-Asian crime, when it was not.  Many groups of Asians in most big cities have…

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