Notes on: Reilly, W. (2021). Crime Against Asians Isn't Due to White Supremacy. The data show it. Commentary. https://www.commentary.org/articles/wilfred-reilly/crime-against-asians-isnt-due-to-white-supremacy/ There is an ongoing wave of white supremacist attacks against Asian-Americans, allegedly.  There has been a rise in violent crimes targeting Asians in 2020, and media outlets, like CNN, have been describing this as pro-Trump. [Other sources I have read say it is partly due to Asians beingblamed for Covid!]. Large urban marches have been organised suggesting blacks and Asians together take on white supremacy. However, relevant data, 'puts the lie to this narrative'. Violence against Asian-Americans is 'a diverse and majority–minority affair' (37), with a Bureau of Justice Statistics report in 2019 showing  that [see below]. His own analysis on a set of more than 100 recent high profile cases 'reaches similar conclusions'. [Casual] textual analysis of past publications indicates that this has persisted for decades, and appears in recent attacks on Asians and Jews. However, CNN and others insist that white supremacists are responsible, and want to blame Trump. One report cites Asian politicians in support. Federal crime data provide 'little or no support' however (38). In 2018, 27.5% of violent attackers were black, 24% white, 21.4% Hispanic or other, and well under 25% were Asian. Asians are mostly safe with other Asians, while 62.1% of attackers of whites during the same year were white, and 70.3% of all attackers of blacks were black. So most crime is 'intra racial… especially since the person most likely to kill you is, generally speaking, your husband or wife' Recent hate crime data in 2020 tell the same story. There is a wave of violence against a small and successful community, but it is diverse — of 205 hate attackers of Asians, 95 were white, 30 black, seven Latino, 18 racially mixed, and 70 not conclusively identified. His own data tells a similar story. He summarised victim and offender characteristics for more than a hundred of the most widely reported attacks on Asian-Americans in 2020 and 2021. His data included 23 assaults in which the attacker was black, 23 in which the race of the attacker was unknown, 12 in which the attacker was white, five in which the assault was committed by a mixed race individual or group, five in which the attacker was Hispanic and one in which the attacker was Asian [he has a reference for this document]. Across the entire set, 41 attackers were black, 37 unknown race, 24 white, 10 biracial or mixed groups, seven Hispanic, two were Asians. Overall 40% were conclusively identified as white. In the more spectacular cases a black man was responsible and two African-American females. Those responsible are 'a very diverse group of thugs' (39). All the news stories suggest that this basic pattern has existed for some time. A story in 2010 noted that at least four high-profile attacks on Asians were by black Americans, and in 1992, an article was published about the 'often violent harassment of Asians by both blacks and urban whites' including a blockade of Korean grocery stores in Brooklyn. Asians are a classic '"model minority" or "middleman minority"' and are frequently targeted for violence by people motivated by jealousy, outgroup bias or just money. Jews have the same history although it is hard to disaggregate them from the larger white category in criminal statistics. However, Jews make up 11.7% of all hate crime targets and 60% of all targets motivated by religion [2018 figures]. The attackers of Jews are diverse again. During 2018 there were 258 anti-Jewish hate criminals [note that hate crimes including graffiti or '"knockout game" attacks']: 179 were white, 41 were black, 14 involve multiracial or sometimes large groups of individuals. There was a spike of violence against Jews on the East Coast in 2019 and 'many attackers (although by no means all) turned out to be people of colour' [he gives two spectacular examples]. This is not white supremacy! 'Many or most of the attackers of Asians and Jews are not white' some theorists have even tried to argue on occasion that there are '"black white supremacists"', that 'the racial biases of whites somehow "spill over" to people of colour and make us hate one another', but it still needs to be explained why this secondary bias peaked in the case of Asians last year as opposed to any other year that did not feature 'a pandemic and massive police pullbacks', why people of colour attack Asians more than whites and for that matter how 98% of minority Americans and about the same of white Americans managed to overcome 'this alleged conditioning and not commit racist crimes against anyone at all' (40). The implications matter. If the driving force behind urban crime is white supremacy, then defunding biased police forces and giving the money to Black Lives Matter might be the solution, but this will be 'diametrically opposed' to those who assume that 'the driving force is ill intent on the part of a diverse gang of thugs': the solution here would be 'the state harshly taking on crime' and this would do more to 'make Asian Lives Matter than all the protest signs in the world'.