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Originally Posted by speeder

FWIW, I'm not convinced that it was an anti-Asian hate crime. I just wonder what your agenda is(?)

I have no agenda...other than to point out that most of the propaganda we see in the media is just that. Only convenient "facts" are included...that fit whatever agenda is being pushed to divide Americans. That and we rarely look beyond the bumper-sticker, knee-jerk response vice the real underlying causes of our problems. A look at the actual numbers and all the facts usually paints a far different picture. Much of the country sees things as race-related crimes that simply are not (As they are told that is the case). Making a conclusion that a person shooting up a pizzeria in Brooklyn hates Italians or a casino in Arizona hates Native Americans might have little to do with race. Similarly, an attack on an elderly Asian in SF might just be due to physical size (petite), age and perceived wealth (and easy prey..as Sumo wrestlers are rarely attacked)...or simply availability (percentage of the walking population in SF). Asian massage parlors (with an Asian staff) are certainly most common in the Atlanta area in question...and purportedly the shooter was a frequent client of such. We were told the shooting in Boulder was white supremacy (even though the victims were mostly white)...until it turned out that the shooter was born in Syria.

Many of our "problems" (including racism and things called racist which are clearly not) are caused by poverty and education. Much of our poverty and education issues are caused by culture, excessive immigration of the poor/uneducated, etc., and trafficking in persons. Increasing the population faster than increasing housing, jobs, schools, health care harms both illegal immigrants and citizens...and actually results in more resentment/racism/bigotry...not the opposite. That is one of the reason that immigration was almost stopped for several decades starting in the 1920s to allow assimilation and for the nation to catch up. Printing money money that we do not have to fund massive increases in population makes the problem worse as it saddles each citizen (and new citizen) with massive debt. It is hard to make the case that we just do not have enough Americans to care for now when you look at homeless encampments and welfare rolls.