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(Thanks to Asian Dude for this one!) Blog Purifying Flames questions the double standard of media coverage surrounding the Princeton attacks on Asian women. Why is it that these attacks are described merely as “lewd behavior,” when an almost-identical case involving all white female victims is referred to as “assault” and involves much harsher punishment?

As an example of the double standard being applied in the coverage of the recent Princeton assaults on Asian women, consider the case of the North Carolinan News & Observer.

Under the category of “Weird,” they chose to run a newswire story under the headline “Grad student accused of lewd behavior.” Lewd? Introducing his semen and urine into the digestive tracts of unsuspecting Asian women and exscinding parts of their bodies is more than lewd, one would think. Less than a month ago, when a dentist from North Carolina was accused of squirting his semen into the mouths of six patients, the same News & Observer ran the story under the headline “Former N.C. dentist could face assault charges in semen case.”

It went on to note that the former dentist, whose victims were white, faces up to 120 days in prison. Lohman, the suspect in the Princeton case, attacked 10 times the number of (Asian) women by his own admission. What kind of prison term is he facing? No one is even asking. Instead, they are characterizing the case as “weird,” “bizarre,” and “lewd,” an expression of a sexual fetish and a case of mere “harassment,” while speculating on the origins of his unusual desires.