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Anti-Asian Violence: How Politicians Are Ignoring Data To Divide Us By Race

Ian Haworth
Anti-Asian Violence: How Politicians Are Ignoring Data To Divide Us By Race
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Last week, “A series of shootings at Atlanta-area massage parlors left eight dead … and after an extended manhunt, police have arrested a 21-year-old man who is believed to have confessed to the crimes.”

“Although a motive was not immediately apparent, media, including The New York Times, began to speculate that the suspect’s decision to target the massage parlors, staffed largely by Asian females, was indicative of an anti-Asian hate crime and connected the shooting spree to recent attacks on elderly individuals of Asian descent in places like San Francisco, California, and New York City,” the Daily Wire reported.

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