Republicans Join Virtue-Signaling Democrats to Pass Anti-Asian Hate Bill
Drew Allen / American Greatness/ April 24, 2021
Per CNN, “The Senate passed with a wide bipartisan majority Thursday a bill denouncing discrimination against Asian communities in the United States.” I’m neither surprised by the inept CNN writer’s poorly constructed opening sentence nor by the latest Democratic Party virtue-signaling extravaganza. I am, however, deeply perturbed by the near-unanimous Republican support of this pathetic bill.
Discrimination is already unlawful. Those with a capacity for rational thought might recall that discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin was outlawed in 1964 in something called the Civil Rights Act. Discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity has also been outlawed.
Ten white people were murdered in Boulder, Colorado by a Syrian immigrant. Where is the anti-white hate crime bill? Why not just pass an anti-hate bill that condemns hate against anyone? That would be stupid and redundant, of course, just like the stupid bill Republicans just helped to pass.
This anti-Asian hate bill isn’t about anti-Asian hate. The false narrative of the Democratic Party has long been that Republicans and Donald Trump are responsible for a rise in reported hate crimes against Asian Americans. The Democrats have alleged that calling COVID-19 the “Chinese Virus” or “Wuhan Virus”—a virus that originated in Wuhan, China—is hate speech inciting violence. How about the Spanish flu? Is that also hate speech? Are German Americans at risk if we mention the Holocaust? Are Democrats at risk of hate crimes if we remind Americans that they are the party of slavery?