How to Hit Back: The desperate, confused, righteous campaign to stop Asian hate

“The scholar Tamara Nopper told me she felt some Asian Americans were using hate-crime discourse as a way to avoid “dealing with anti-Blackness.” She admitted she had hesitated to tweet #StopAsianHate because she was concerned that joining in would contribute to the impression that we’re living through a crime wave and should turn to carceral solutions.”

So the Asian American community wants to feel safe because there is a heightened sense of crime directed against them but shouldn’t want to acknowledge there is a “crime wave”? And many of the law enforcement measures that would be effective aren’t to be considered because they could lead higher rates in African American incarceration because of over representation (over half) in the homeless population? There seems to be conflicted sets of priorities and metrics being considered here.

It seems the metrics being used is lower incarceration among African American communities which I can fully agree with. But there is a spillover of this well intentioned effort due to not enforcement of law or people fearing to report a crime. Is this a correct reading of the situation? Perhaps “lowering homeless rate” would be another key metrics to consider?

While I am all for community policing and self defence which the article casually segway to instead of addressing the root cause of the issue, in a civil society a person of a certain race or color should not have to resort to that to feel safe. NY state and NYC has one of the highest tax rates in the country and it is a sad state of affairs the minority communities have to live through this.