Yes, it is true. Asians are being attacked in greater numbers than before. But it isn't whites who are doing the attacks.

I am sure getting tired of reading day after day that the killings in Atlanta were the result of anti-Asian hate. The killer, Robert Aaron Long, was, by all accounts, obsessed with sex and religion, not by anti-Asian animus. 

But the notion that white anti-Asian racism caused the attacks is too useful to leftist activists to discard. Instead, day after day the media keeps pushing the narrative that this massacre of six Asian women (and two non-Asian men) is proof, that America is an irredeemably racist county.  In yesterday's edition, the LA Times ran a story by one of the paper's three columnists on its racism beat, asserting that this latest outrage in Atlanta has finally prompted the black and Asian communities to join forces to fight the never-ending plague of "white supremacy," a euphemism, as far as I can tell, for whites in general. 

The notion that it is predominately whites who are committing these crimes against Asians is demonstrably not true. First of all, the incidence of anti-Asian incidents in this the time of Covid is still small. There were only seven hate crimes against Asians in Los Angeles in 2019. The number went up to 11 in 2020. This is distressing but it is still hardly a wave. Furthermore, of the people behind these anti-Asian attacks, whites weren't even a majority. According to the American Spectator, quoting Andrew Sullivan, 24% of violent attacks on Asians were committed by whites and 28% were committed by blacks. Since blacks make up only 13% of the US population this means that a given black is seven times more likely to attack an Asian than a white is. 

In New York City last year, says Sullivan, police arrested 11 blacks for attacks on Asians but only two whites, and this despite the fact that the white population of the city is three times higher than the black one.

Conclusion: Yes, it is true. Asians are being attacked in greater numbers than before. But it isn't whites who are behind them.

As for LA Times columnist Erika Smith, she apparently knows full well who is most responsible as she says in her column it is time both to stop "focusing on individual perpetrators" and to quit "demanding more policing, more laws and more prosecutions." Instead, in a wonderful sleight of hand, she says we rather need to blame the real causes behind the attacks: "white supremacy, systemic racism and the social constructs that support them."

Right, the last thing we want to do is blame the people actually committing the crimes.