Attacks on Asians Not ‘White Supremacy,’ Just ‘Thugs,’ Researcher Says

Attacks on Asians Not ‘White Supremacy,’ Just ‘Thugs,’ Researcher Says
A police officer on a foot patrol in Chinatown in San Francisco on March 18, 2021. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Petr Svab
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The notion that white supremacists are responsible for violent attacks on Asians falls apart under scrutiny, according to a political science researcher who collected and analyzed a database of such attacks.

Wilfred Reilly, assistant professor at Kentucky State University, collected publicly available information on about 100 attacks on Asians reported in the media in the past 14 months or so.

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