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What you wrote is extremely vague, charged, and lacking in nuance. Clarification would help anyone, especially since you’re apparently already prepared for, “anyone who denies this.”

Which examples of anti-asian violence occurred during the BLM protests? Can you be specific?

Which party was in power for both incidents you’ve mentioned? Why or why not does that matter?

What effects are those having on Asians? Is there an increase/decrease in anti-asian crime?

Looking forward to your response.

Edit: Downvotes are fine, but consider that this post is merely asking for clarifications on a charged post and expressing no political opinions whatsoever.

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No, that's the thing. You, like many scientific materialists are asking for some study that shows you causality. The requirements of an IRB make it such that you most likely couldn't study this, and if you can, the timeliness of the study would lag 5-10 years behind usefulness.

You only have to walk around Koreatown now to see this. The people who make the policy that govern lives are not waiting around for the IRP to approve the study. I suggest you attempt to experience the life, or talk to those who have, while waiting for links to studies that prescribe outcomes related to current events.

I'm Asian, the guy didn't ask for a scientific study. He just asked for clarification which you did give in the second paragraph. Give him a break.

Yeah asians are victims of racism, but that doesn't preclude other races from criticising a statement for being unclear.

I would say to the parent parent poster that next time you can ask those questions without directly stating that the comment was: "extremely vague, charged, and lacking in nuance." Even though I agree that what you said is true, most humans are incapable of ingesting those words in an unbiased way and will likely misinterpret it as an insult. Ironically, the comment itself was "lacking in nuance."

Ok account created 32 minutes ago .

I’m not saying anything regarding general anti-Asian discrimination in America. (On that point, I agree with others in this thread: they face discrimination in education and tech jobs, among other places).

But that’s not at all related to what I asked. I simply asked for clarification between BLM and anti-asian violence. I don’t need a peer-reviewed study.

We don’t know each other’s political beliefs or life experiences. If you were asking about Trump rallies and anti-asian violence I’d ask the same thing.

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