Stop the hate talk
No Asians want action against violence — not more rhetoric about racism
WE Asians in New York City are fed up with woke politicians and their media going on and on about hate crimes. They are all talk about hate, but action on crime. And we want action on all crimes, not just “hate” crimes. Without catching, charging and putting criminals away, our subways, streets, schools, stores and homes will never be safe. When you are being pushed into the subway tracks, or face a knife in a robbery, whether the expletive used by the attacker qualifies as a hate crime is a remote concern to you.
Yet, while New York has become, again, a city where people worry that their next subway trip may get them pummeled senseless while other riders look away fearfully, woke politicians distract us with chants of “stop the hate.”
First, they push the fake narrative that attackers are white supremacists who, incredibly, didn’t know that the virus came from China until Trump told them this. In fact, many of these presumed “white supremacist” attackers in New York City aren’t even white.
That includes Brandon Elliot, who allegedly stomped on a 65-year-old Filipina in Midtown in broad daylight on April 5, shouting “you don’t belong here!” The victim suffered serious injury including a fractured pelvis. Elliot, a black man who lived at a nearby shelter, was on parole from a 15-year-to-life sentence for stabbing his mother to death in 2002.
The Department of Justice’s violent crime statistics show that Asian victims are assaulted more by black perpetrators than by any other group, even before the pandemic. This disparity has been evident in the city in recent months:
On February 25, a Chinese man was stabbed from behind on a street near Chinatown in the early evening. The attacker said he didn’t like the way the victim looked at him. The attacker, who turned himself in, had punched an Asian a month earlier and assaulted his own brother prior. The victim is still in a coma, having lost adrenal glands, liver function and one kidney. The alleged attacker, Salman Muflihi, is South Asian.
On February 26, Young Zhen was stabbed to death in Brooklyn after dinner with his family, when he stepped in to intervene in an assault that, unbeknownst to him, was a robbery in progress. One of the alleged attackers, William Smith, was caught using surveillance footage of the getaway Mercedes Benz. Accomplices are still at large. Smith is black and had earlier served 10 years for murder.
On March 21, Marc Mathieu allegedly punched and bloodied a Sri Lankan security guard on a subway train near Franklin Street in Manhattan. Mathieu is black and had nine prior arrests.
That same day, Erick Deoliveira was arrested after allegedly attacking an Asian woman returning from an anti-Asian crime rally near Astor Place. He was released the next day without posting bail. Then, on April 3, he was arrested again for breaking a squad car windshield. Deoliveira is a vagrant who has more than 10 prior arrests. He is black and Hispanic.
On March 22, Joseph Russo allegedly approached a Chinese woman without speaking a word and grabbed her by her hair. Two weeks later, he snatched some flowers from an outdoor store display and threw it across the sidewalk. Then he forcefully shoved two elderly Chinese out of his way as he walked on. Two days after that, he was arrested for two attacks in Brooklyn. Russo is white and has 14 prior arrests.
On March 23, Donovan Lawson, who is black and mentally ill with 33 prior arrests, allegedly tried to rob a Chinese couple. When a Chinese bystander tried to intervene, Lawson called him a “chink” and started hitting him. Lawson was arrested after a patrolman came to the scene.
There are too many more similar cases to list. So much for the fake narrative of all hate crimes being committed by whitesupremacist Trump supporters.
And yet, when politicians call to “stop the hate,” they mean we must “educate” whites in “anti-racism.” Not only is this “education” mistargeted, we know that “anti-racism” is just a benign-sounding alias for the neo-Marxist extremist political ideology of Critical Race Theory (CRT), which is increasingly embraced by politicians, “journalists,” celebrities and “educators” and has helped give rise to the hate in the first place.
Here’s how: When a black man told a Chinese father in Central Park on March 27 that “you guys always have the advantage,” then sucker-punched him, he acted out the two fundamental tenets of CRT. The first tenet is that you must judge people, not as individuals, but by their race only — i.e., be racist — so the unlucky Chinese father became “you guys,” part of a collective racial judgment. The second tenet is that the only relationship between blacks and whites — and Chinese by extension — is that of unjust oppression. Oppression justifies retaliation, making it “socially just” to sucker-punch.
Furthermore, CRT’s concept of social justice, as opposed to good old American justice, advocates for equal outcomes by race, as opposed to equal rights for each individual. This belief has directly led to insane, strictly-byracial-outcome “reforms” in policing, lawmaking, prosecution, sentencing and parole policies that have dumped openly lawless criminals, some with mental illness and addiction issues, onto the streets.
It is the height of cynicism to push for even more CRT indoctrination as the solution to the “hate” it caused. And yet, there you have it.
Politicians — we don’t need your “stop the hate.” We demand a return to common sense in all aspects of criminal justice, to put the safety of New Yorkers first. If you won’t do that, kindly go away and take your empty rhetoric with you. It is time to make New York City safe again, not just for Asians, but for all communities hurting from rising lawlessness and crime. With them we stand in solidarity.