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Wrong. I don't know how I can make this any simpler for you.

One more time:

You complained that people aren't aware just how prevalent violence against Asians is, correct?

My point is that the lower the official records of anti-Asian violence against is, the fewer the reports of violence against Asians will be to the general public. Make sense so far?

As a result, the lower amount of reports about violence against Asians leads to less awareness of it. Understand?

My point is not that the official records accurately reflect the amount of violence against Asians, my point is that the lack of records lead to a lack of awareness.

Note that Vivify evaded this question:
Does Vivify accept the racist American position that Asian Americans or at least
Chinese Americans can or should be held responsible for whatever a foreign
government (the People's Republic of China) does and may be punished for it?


I didn't evade it; your posts are so long I tend to skip most of them. But to answer your question: no.

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First of all, why don't "other sources" matter to you when it comes to China committing genocide?

Regarding your post the difference is that about 51% of the U.S. population is female: only about 5% are Asian. That fact alone poses a challenge for Asians to get their message out to those "other sources" often enough.

The major point I'm making is that the lack of knowledge about anti-Asian violence may have less to do American not caring, as you like to claim, and more to do with steady decline in hate-crime cases against Asians, combined with a much lower population that receives less attention as a result of their smaller numbers.

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I understand the people who didn't intervene in this case were trained security staff who presumably ought to have had the physical strength, and the strength of numbers, to take action. But in the abstract, I think the honest answer for many posters (including myself) is that they do not know what they would have done. Unless they have been in a comparable situation, it's almost impossible to say how they would act. Let's imagine that I was the only witness to this. I am not especially strong physically, nor do I have any training in martial arts. I would have been frightened for my own safety; and so, while I hope I would have tried to intervene, I fear I might have taken the coward's way out. To be honest, unless and until I am tested in that way, I don't know whether I'd pass or fail the test.

But I'm quite convinced that, if I failed to intervene, the reason for my failure would be plain old-fashioned fear; it would not be because of the racial background of the victim.

Few people have a right to feel self-righteous about the behaviour of ordinary Germans in the 1930s. My gentile grandmother left Germany in order to marry my Jewish grandfather; her sisters stayed in Berlin through the war, and I suppose made the kind of uneasy compromises that many other people made in that place and at that time. I don't think my grandmother was a better or stronger woman than my great-aunts. She was in love, and acted accordingly.

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I don't mind your asking, but I never spoke to them about it, for two very practical reasons: 1) because my father was a late child, I was myself young when my grandmother and her sisters died, and 2) my great-aunts spoke almost no English and I only schoolboy German (in the early postwar years, it was hard to bring up a child speaking German in the UK, so my grandparents chose to raise their children monolingually in English).

I think one of the great-aunts at least was still in Berlin at the end of the war; she had been widowed during the conflict, her husband having been killed on the Western Front. However, she lived in the West (proper, not West Berlin) during the period of division. The other great-aunt may by then have relocated to Western Germany. She married a man who became a corporate executive and enjoyed a prosperous life.

The person who might know more of their experiences than I do is my aunt (Dad's elder sister) - she's the member of the UK-based part of family who speaks the best German. But from what I know of their characters, my great-aunts were likely to prefer not to talk about their wartime or Occupation-era experience.

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