As I reported yesterday, Stuff carefully avoided already-widely circulated descriptions of the Brooklyn subway attacker. Even when the FBI released his name and image, Stuff just quietly updated its report with the FBI’s tweet — and no comment.
But that doesn’t mean that my own coverage didn’t get something wrong, or at least not-quite-right, when I speculated that the attack was linked to a wave of recent anti-Asian violence perpetrated by black offenders in the US. Because, while it turns out that attacker Frank James is indeed a drooling racist, who calls Asians “slant-eyed fking piece of st”, he’s quite the broad-spectrum racist.
Exactly one month before a gunman carried out an elaborately planned attack on a New York City subway in a largely Latin-American neighborhood, Frank James went on a racist Youtube tirade against “Spanish-speakers,” threatening extermination and murder.
Ten people were shot and over two dozen injured during the rush-hour attack, when the suspect put on a gas mask, opened a canister that filled the train with smoke, and then opened fire inside the a Manhattan-bound N-train and on the platform […]
James published over 400 videos to his Youtube account, many of which were full of bigoted rants, conspiracy theories, and self-pity.
Racial tensions between blacks and Hispanics in the US are also commonplace, most notably in LA, where Hispanic gangs often violently drive out blacks from “their” neighbourhoods.
By his own admission, James also has a diagnosed mental illness. But, as happens so often with jihadists, mental illness does not preclude religious or racial fanaticism as immediate motivation for terror. On the other hand, the diagnosed mental disorders of Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik are almost always passed over in the rush to brand him a simple white supremacist.
To borrow a phrase from Frank James’ hated “Spanish speaking”: porque no los dos? (“Why not both?”).
Put simply, being a loony and being a racist or religious terrorist is not mutually exclusive.
Because Frank James was clearly very racist.
He also said Spanish-speakers were created to be laborers and “machines” and calling them a “drain on resources.
“You about to be exterminated,” he said, apparently directing his rant at the man named Ralph. “You and everything like you are about to be wiped off this fucking planet.”
Sunset Park, the neighborhood surrounding the 36th Street station, is 42% Latino, according to the most recent New York City community assessment.
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The area does also have a high percentage of Asian residents — 35%, which explains why photos of the aftermath of the attack showed a preponderance of conspicuously Asian victims. What it does not have much of are blacks: just 0.2% of the local population. So, either way, Frank James was in a veritable racist’s “target-rich environment”.
Because he doesn’t much like the white folks, either.
“These white motherf—ers, this is what they do,” he said. “Ultimately at the end of the day, they kill and commit genocide against each other. What do you think they gonna do to your black ass?”
In his rambling conspiracy theory, James claimed that a race war would follow the ongoing conflict in Europe.
“It’s just a matter of time before these white motherf—ers decide, ‘Hey listen. Enough is enough. These n—ers got to go,’” he said.
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James also spouted the same rhetoric as some of the legacy media’s favourite “white supremacists”, opining that “white people and black people… should not have any contact with each other”. In fact, blacks and whites, he said, “should not even be in the same hemisphere”. He was also enraged that Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Jackson is “married to a fcking white man”.
A Klansman couldn’t have put it more hatefully.
James reiterated that “the white mother fkers that I want to kill, you know, I reall want to kill them because they’re white”. He also posted about “kill all whites” on Facebook.
Interestingly, the NZ legacy media seem as reluctant to discuss James’ racism as they were to even mention his race. The NZ Herald merely mentions “bigoted comments… some against other black people” and that “he thought things would only change if certain people were ‘stomped, kicked and tortured’.” Gosh, which “certain people”? Well, we know the answer to that, though the Herald won’t tell us.
Like the Herald, Stuff is also drawing a discreet veil over James’ race-hatred.
In recent months, James railed in online videos about racism and violence in the US and about his experiences with mental health care in New York City, and he had criticised Adams’ policies on mental health and subway safety.
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Reading that, you’d almost think that the racist terrorist was the victim of racism.
Because every right-on legacy media journalist worth their salt knows that black people can’t be racist. Critical Race Theory says so.