> in reality, Asians have the largest income gap with one of the highest poverty rates The Asian poverty rate has been virtually the same as the white one sinc

> in reality, Asians have the largest income gap with one of the highest poverty rates The Asian poverty rate has been virtually the same as the white one since 23 years ago [1], and is currently the lowest of all racial groups, by a slim margin [2]. > Then in January, brutal hate crimes occurred across the U.S., specifically targeting the Asian elderly, including Vicha Ratanapakdee, an 84-year-old Thai man, who died from being shoved. [..] [My old neighbor] wanted an easy outlet for his rage. It was about exhibiting dominance in a society that rewards whiteness. For all the blame the author puts on "whiteness", they fail to mention that Ratanapakdee was killed by a Black man [3]. And if we look beyond the very malleable category of "hate crime" (which includes crimes against society and property... weren't we recently told it's illegitimate to care about property crimes?) and focus on something objective, namely homicide [4], we see that in 2019 (the latest year for which I was able to find this data), of the 247 homicides perpetrated against the "other race" [5] group, 138 were perpetrated by other members of the "other race" group, leaving 109 inter-racial homicides. Of these, 39 were by non-Hispanic whites (57 by "whites" including Hispanics, minus 18 by Hispanics, that are nearly always classified as white), and 40 by blacks. Meaning non-Hispanic whites, who are 62% of the non-other races of the US committed 36% of the inter-racial homicides against Asians, while Blacks, who are 13%, committed 37%. Yet I am not surprised the author puts all the blame on "whiteness", and none on anyone else. [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1225017/poverty-share-by-race-race-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1225017/poverty-share-by... [2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/200476/us-poverty-rate-by-ethnic-group/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/200476/us-poverty-rate-b... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Vicha_Ratanapakdee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Vicha_Ratanapakdee [4] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6.xls https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-... [5] "Includes American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander", meaning of all Americans classified as "other", 81% are Asian. That does not necessarily mean 81% of the homicide victims are Asian, but it is the best I can do with the available data. [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States#Race_and_ethnicity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...