| | | Tenchu's Thoughts (Follow-up): Black Privilege and White Guilt
Take a look at this now-deleted tweet, from David Beard, who works for Democracy Dies In Darkness:
Since deleting his original tweet, David Beard posted the following:
No word on the assailant's race. No #StopAAPIHate hashtag. Just a convenient return to objective reporting.
By the way, here's an article on the perp, thanks to Betty Yu of KPIX5:
KPIX5 - Source: Man Arrested For Stabbing 2 Asian Woman in San Francisco Has Lengthy Arrest History
Get this. He was arrested two dozen times over the past 20 years. The latest arrests included a stabbing in 2017 and a charge of battery in 2019. He was also placed in a psychiatric hold at least once.
Meanwhile the victims are still recovering. One of them needs a breathing tube after the knife punctured her lung and rib cage.
Black Privilege
What does this tweet prove? That there is Black Privilege.
You see it all over the media. They are not allowed to call out the race of any suspect who isn't white or Asian. They must portray Black people in the most positive light imaginable, OR they must somehow trace the actions of a Black suspect to "white supremacy."
If they can't do that, they will sweep the story under the rug, just like David Beard tried to do.
Imagine if 80% of the attackers against Asians were white. You would see a LOT more reaction from the national news media. You would see a LOT more action from Congress and the White House, especially from Kamala Harris, the "first Asian-American vice-president of America."
Instead, these stories are ignored. These stories are buried and dismissed as "local" affairs. All because 80% of the assailants are Black, so they don't fit into the media narrative.
White Guilt
But why?
Why should the plight of Asians who are living in this nation as productive, law-abiding citizens, and who are living examples of the American dream, be ignored?
It all stems from white guilt.
There's too much to go into regarding white guilt, but it's easy to see. Anytime a white person brings race into an issue just to bait out a response or to distract from a losing argument, that's white guilt in action.
Anytime a white person proudly and "courageously" stands up to a white supremacist but cowers before a Black assailant, that's white guilt in action.
Anytime a white person accuses racial minorities of being Uncle Toms, that's white guilt in action.
And we just saw white guilt in action right here when David Beard boldly stood in solidarity against AAPI hate, only to retreat once he saw that the assailant was Black.
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