Argumentative Penguin
1 min readMay 26, 2021

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Your point about the media coverage is well made and a good thinking point for everyone. You have conflated the figures for asian people killed in unprovoked attacks and black people killed by the police. These are different - the fact they are the same number is neither here nor there. Asian people are significantly less likely to be killed by the police when adjusted for population size. https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793 - The American police force has a heavy bias towards killing black people.

Across the article, you've consistently cherry picked figures in favour of your arugment. The 1931 lynchings and 2020 deaths are different things and cannot be compared . For one thing, it ignore deaths caused by other means such as 'self defence', suicide brought on by economic impoverishment and people 'going missing'. These figures cannot be held together and declared comparable in any meaningful way.

That doesn't mean that there isn't abhorrent racism being directed towards Asian people - there certainly is, but this isn't reflected in the figures you've provided and when making a case like this you need to be careful to show your working. Your article invites people to check your working, I have and I don't believe your argument is fair. This is true of most identity politics arguments made by humans of all skin colours and races. American propaganda is neither here nor there - I believe statistical analysis and figures.

https://medium.com/lucid-nightmare/mass-shootings-arent-about-racism-1eec3db4a708

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Argumentative Penguin
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