interesting article on Chinese American shift to the right

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Anonymous wrote:And the generational divide:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/business/zohran-mamdani-chinese.html

Chinese Americans who immigrated here and who actually lived under communism are turning into hardcore Trump supporters. They are horrified at the messaging in NY wrt all the free stuff being promised, laxity on crime, and increasing taxes to make a bigger state. I didn't realize how badly Kamala had tanked with Chinese Americans. What a disaster.

Do you mean they are racist like every other ethnic group out there? KHarris getting way too much credit for having "tanked" with that group.

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Anonymous wrote:Many older Asians are quite racist against Blacks and Hispanics, plus are pretty religious and hate taxes as they move into higher income brackets. Therefore being Republican isn’t shocking.

And many do no believe women should be in leadership roles, so it isn’t shocking that they wouldn’t be for Kamala. Same with other immigrant cultures.

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Many immigrants are racist and sexist. Many blacks are conservative. Whites are all those too. Stop zoning in on one group. Humans are racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh the irony.

Some basic understanding of history would solve this problem. But let’s do the things that led to communism all over again, here.

+1 basically, the rich getting richer, poor getting poorer, seeing elites live it up (adding a ballroom to the WH) while people are going hungry, elite capitalists in bed with foreigners to the detriment of the local population ... that is what leads to uprisings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And the generational divide:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/business/zohran-mamdani-chinese.html

Chinese Americans who immigrated here and who actually lived under communism are turning into hardcore Trump supporters. They are horrified at the messaging in NY wrt all the free stuff being promised, laxity on crime, and increasing taxes to make a bigger state. I didn't realize how badly Kamala had tanked with Chinese Americans. What a disaster.

Does not really matter. Trump and MAGA will still round these immigrants up and deport them. They are immigrants. According to Trump and MAGA they are criminals and gang members.

[Anonymous]

Many immigrants even those on h-1b support Trump. It's about the economy, they are here for the economy. Economic tourists so to speak.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many immigrants even those on h-1b support Trump. It's about the economy, they are here for the economy. Economic tourists so to speak.

H-1B are not citizens and can’t vote, so they have no say.

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Anonymous wrote:Most of this thread feels bizarre, inorganic and built upon a rickety framework of bogus strawmen ("DeMS ArE CoMMuNIstS!!!" "deMs ArE RacISts whO HatE AsIAns!!!" etc)

I'm a Dem and even I have to admit that the far left of our party are, indeed communists. And equity policies almost always discriminate against Asians.

The equity policies were put in place before most Asians were even in this country, to rectify wrongs in history. The policies have nothing to do with Asians therefore.

Affirmative action was quiet and understated and most people agreed with it or at least didn't push back that hard. When it 'morphed" into DEI it was front and center and discrimination became more of a feature people took notice. What happened at Harvard is a great example of DEI discrimination against Asians.

Asians aren't the only faction of people in this country who have been discriminated against. Many wrongs don't make a right. Good riddance to bigotry in all its forms. It's fine by me if skin color, religious beliefs, sexual preference and other personal identity characteristics that have no bearing on the quality of an applicant's profile actually have no bearing on the quality of an applicant's profile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many immigrants even those on h-1b support Trump. It's about the economy, they are here for the economy. Economic tourists so to speak.

Well Trump tourism and the economy. How’d that work out for them?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:And the generational divide:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/business/zohran-mamdani-chinese.html

Chinese Americans who immigrated here and who actually lived under communism are turning into hardcore Trump supporters. They are horrified at the messaging in NY wrt all the free stuff being promised, laxity on crime, and increasing taxes to make a bigger state. I didn't realize how badly Kamala had tanked with Chinese Americans. What a disaster.

Does not really matter. Trump and MAGA will still round these immigrants up and deport them. They are immigrants. According to Trump and MAGA they are criminals and gang members.

Nah, they’re rich. He likes rich immigrants.

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Who cares?

If any minority wants snuggle up with MAGA, they had better be prepared to ride bare back on this bull.

I'll be enjoying watching them squirm.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: ("DeMS ArE CoMMuNIstS!!!" "deMs ArE RacISts whO HatE AsIAns!!!" etc)

True

False. Those are bogus talking points and strawmen that fall apart under scrutiny.

[Anonymous]

Someone was railing about "Harvard discriminates against Asians" - doesn't take much to see that US demographics are 7% Asian whereas Harvard student body is almost 24% Asian. How can it be "discrimination" when Asians have had admissions rates 3.5x more favorable than the general population?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone was railing about "Harvard discriminates against Asians" - doesn't take much to see that US demographics are 7% Asian whereas Harvard student body is almost 24% Asian. How can it be "discrimination" when Asians have had admissions rates 3.5x more favorable than the general population?

The fact that you know the student body is 24% Asian is the root of the problem itself. Who is keeping tabs on the student body demographics and why are they doing so? The student body should be made up of the most qualified applicants. Period, end of discussion. If that means the student body is 98% Asian or 2% Asian, so be it. Being "Asian" should not be a qualifying or disqualifying factor.

It's just astonishing to hear of ethnicity being something taken into consideration when people are applying for anything in 2025. What is wrong with these people?

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Anonymous wrote:Someone was railing about "Harvard discriminates against Asians" - doesn't take much to see that US demographics are 7% Asian whereas Harvard student body is almost 24% Asian. How can it be "discrimination" when Asians have had admissions rates 3.5x more favorable than the general population?

The fact that you know the student body is 24% Asian is the root of the problem itself. Who is keeping tabs on the student body demographics and why are they doing so? The student body should be made up of the most qualified applicants. Period, end of discussion. If that means the student body is 98% Asian or 2% Asian, so be it. Being "Asian" should not be a qualifying or disqualifying factor.

It's just astonishing to hear of ethnicity being something taken into consideration when people are applying for anything in 2025. What is wrong with these people?

Wtf. Do you're saying its astonishingly evil, horrible and discriminatory to merely report basic demographics??? Aside from failing to answer the question and articulate how Asians were supposedly discriminated against... You've failed massively in your faux outrage here.