<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Here’s some evidence of this escalating to violence:</div><div dir="ltr"><span style="text-indent: -24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 13pt; font-family: "Proxima Nova Regular"; color: rgb(44, 45, 48);"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br></span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="text-indent: -24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 13pt; font-family: "Proxima Nova Regular"; color: rgb(44, 45, 48);"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -24px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 13pt; font-family: "Proxima Nova Regular"; color: rgb(44, 45, 48);">“A 16-year-old boy in California's San Fernando Valley was physically attacked this week by bullies in his high school who accused him of having the coronavirus — simply because he is Asian American...” <i>Excerpted from CBS News (February 14, 2020).</i></span></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-bullies-attack-asian-teen-los-angeles-accusing-him-of-having-coronavirus/" style="font-family: "Proxima Nova Regular"; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -0.25in; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-bullies-attack-asian-teen-los-angeles-accusing-him-of-having-coronavirus/</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: "Proxima Nova Regular"; color: rgb(44, 45, 48);"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/us/chinese-coronavirus-racist-attacks.html" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/us/chinese-coronavirus-racist-attacks.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: "Proxima Nova Regular"; color: rgb(44, 45, 48);"><a href="https://www.cbs7.com/content/news/FIRST-ON-CBS7-Suspect-admitted-to-trying-to-kill-family-at-Midland-Sams-Club-affidavit-says-568837371.html" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">https://www.cbs7.com/content/news/FIRST-ON-CBS7-Suspect-admitted-to-trying-to-kill-family-at-Midland-Sams-Club-affidavit-says-568837371.html</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(44, 45, 48); font-family: "Proxima Nova Regular"; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">A woman wearing a face mask was punched and kicked by a man who called her "diseased.”</span><i style="color: rgb(44, 45, 48); font-family: "Proxima Nova Regular"; font-size: 13pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Excerpted from NBC News (February 5, 2020). </i><span style="text-indent: -0.25in; color: rgb(44, 45, 48); font-family: "Proxima Nova Regular"; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 9pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in; color: rgb(44, 45, 48); font-family: "Proxima Nova Regular"; font-size: 13pt;">A woman was confronted on the subway by somebody yelling, "Where is your corona mask you Asian b—h," before punching the woman dislocating her jaw. </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in; color: rgb(44, 45, 48); font-family: "Proxima Nova Regular"; font-size: 13pt;">Excerpted from the New York Post (March 10, 2020).</i></p><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 16, 2020, at 8:53 PM, Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 10:11 AM Mike Dougherty <<a href="mailto:msd001@gmail.com">msd001@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div></div></div><div dir="auto">So "fake news"?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If i read that a bar in houston's chinatown is giving away free beer upon showing a receipt from any of the local chinatown businesses because people are avoiding that part of the city, out of ignorance and fear... is it so difficult to imagine misdirected frustration could turn violent? </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### Ignorance? The Chinese virus was brought to the US by travelers, many of them travelers from China. In the absence of testing it's a reasonable presumption that your risk of getting infected by a Chinese virus is higher in Chinatown, at least initially. Does avoiding Chinatown make you into an "ignorant asshole"?</div><div><br></div><div>So did this "misdirected frustration" actually turn violent? Is there a spike in anti-Asian hate crimes? How many Asians have been victimized recently? Who were the perpetrators? Anything similar to the Rodney King riots?</div><div><br></div><div>Anti-American, leftist mass media (I am repeating myself here) promote the narrative of Americans being just bad, hateful people. When the facts on the ground do not fit the story, when the supply of real hate crimes does not meet the demand, there are many Jussie Smollets willing to create fake ones. That's why I am highly suspicious of those ritual condemnation stories about the ugly mainstream Americans, ignorant assholes, stupid, filthy and rural.</div><div> --------------------------</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> I've seen fb posts "fuck china" from people who i know haven't been more than 50 miles from their rural American home their whole life. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### Well, the CCP fucked us and the rest of the world royally. It's time for some disengagement, for mounting a defense against the economic warfare Chicoms employed against the US.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafal </div></div></div>
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