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Anonymous
You are being obtuse. Meritocracy is under attack and Asians are under attack. |
Anonymous
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" The economic center of the world is moving back east and this century is an Asian century. "
Let me buttress your assertion with this anecdatum: over the past thirty years more lethal arms have been sold in Southeastern Asian than anywhere else ... and it isn't even close. You can strike "economic" and just say "the center of the world HAS moved back east to where it was pre-Colonialism." Europe has its head in the sand. |
Anonymous
Asian American here. DH and I are American. DH has served in the US military. Our kids are Americans. That’s like saying white people are missing out in Europe. |
Anonymous
One of the sources of Asian American resentment is the fact that whites and blacks consider Asians as other than. When someone says how good your English . Or how beautiful your eyes are. Or, heh heh, you must be good at math. Back handed compliments used to drive a wedge between. Remember that 2018 US Open women's tennis championship between one American legend and another American up and comer? Oh yeah, that's right. Naomi Osaka wasn't advertised by the white media as American because she had only lived 15 of her 18 years (at the time) in America, was an American citizen, and has a Haitian father. The fact that she now represents Japan for the Olympics now does not belie the fact that she is who she was. Many Americans have changed citizenship to participate in international sports. More recently, many millionaires and billionaires that helped create the problems we now face, have changed citizenshep merely to pay less in taxes. So many SJW whites bend over backwards for non-citizen hispanic children and use acronyms like DREAMers to show how American these non-citizens are. Many of those kids do work hard and probably should be allowed to stay in this country. Where is the support for Americans who are Asian and US citizens (as well as their non-citizen brothers and sisters)? Please stay on that soapbox and do the same for Asians instead of maintaining that southern white view on orientalism. |
Anonymous
Last time I checked, schools with high Asian A. Population are quite sought after. no, influx of Asian students doesn’t destroy the education. It does make many feel uncomfortable for reasons that are most likely different from what they claim to be. |
Anonymous
+ 100. Hit all the nails on the head! |
Anonymous
I don't think meritocracy is under attack. The notion of merit as measured overwhelmingly by metrics that clearly end up stratifying who is deemed meritorious by race (70% Asian) and income (2% low-income) is being revisited, and properly so. I guess you can keep posting variations of the same self-pitying comments, if it makes you feel better. By refusing to recognize what others point out repeatedly, however, you imply that a meritocracy, functioning at its best, rewards primarily Asians and the children of the well-to-do, and that others are less deserving. For if meritocracy and Asians were truly under attack, the proposals would be to dispense with TJ entirely and/or exclude Asians from the public schools, neither of which is on the table at all. |
Anonymous
What is this word salad about? If Naomi Osaka wanted to be recognized as American on the international stage, she'd compete as an American. She represents Japan not only at the Olympics, but at every WTA-sponsored event. Compare that to immigrants like Monica Seles and Martina Navritilova who proudly represented the USA about becoming US citizens. And, despite that, Osaka gets a huge amount of press in this country, not only because she is a top player but also because of her ties to the country and recent social activism. In no way, shape, or form is she short-changed - in fact, she is the highest-paid female athlete in the world now in terms of endorsements. You posters continue to treat efforts to provide greater opportunities for URMs as personal attacks, when that is not the intent. You create the wedge, and then you dive in headfirst. |
Anonymous
| I think the issue is with what constitutes merit. Does it make sense to completely get rid of a test that is supposed to measure an ability to handle and thrive at TJ? If so fine, but what will it be replaced with? How will we ensure which kids will do well there and which will not? |
Anonymous
dumb ass you are meritocracy [mer·i·toc·ra·cy] : a political system in which economic goods and/or political power are vested in individual people on the basis of talent, effort, and achievement, rather than wealth or social class. Ergo she who works hard and tests well should be the first in line. Or else just say that people ought to be quota'ed in based not upon merit or even skin color (the majority of Asia is not East Asia) but some concocted American SJW view of who deserves a hand up more from white colonialism. All you learned and know really happened in kindergarten. |
Anonymous
Agree with this. Meritocracy has long been under attack in politics and the corporate world. It's been definitely creeping into schools, through the overall dumbing down of learning via the use of large scale blanket approaches. Certainly TJ is quite meritocratic, but I do see a risk of that possibly changing, especially if the powers that be don't think carefully how they will implement a system that is *mostly* accurate at identifying the kids who want to be there and can succeed. It's possible there is no good solution other than picking an extreme (shutting it down, which would be sad), or opening a second school, given the large demand in this area. |
Anonymous
Had a white person previously posted that the cultural center of the world is moving back to Europe and this century is a European century. Which they didn't. |
Anonymous
Go back to whatever hole you crawled out of or away from. |
Anonymous
Are you kidding me? Naomi represented Japan after the US Open. She was an American citizen at the time but all they kept doing is bringing up her Japanness and did not mention once that she was a US citizen. She's not the only Asian the white media has done this to. Chloe Kim. Michelle Wie, and Jeremy Lin come to mind. Oh and how about the most famous Asian athlete ever? Oh yeah, Tiger Woods is only African-American. By the way, is every dual Israeli-American citizen not American as well? That list is quite long and quite prestigious and includes many Americans in government who have made positive contribution to America. Your arguments and "history" will continue to get diminished over time. Your statues and holidays are already falling to the wayside of history. |
Anonymous
Stop trying to cast us as anti-white when we speak out about discrimination against Asians. Do you call BLM supporters anti-white too? |