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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]"In the case of university admissions over the past decade, Asians serve as this sort of mask for white privilege," Chang says. "A mask that white privilege can wear in order to hide itself." A mask, he says, with the veneer of very real experiences of racism by Asian Americans.

"Is anti-Asian racism real? Yeah, absolutely," says OiYan Poon, a professor at Colorado State University who studies race-based admissions. "I have experienced it firsthand."

But according to her research, affirmative action is not the source of that racism.

"I've been pouring over the data for years," she says — including the admissions data of Harvard before the court in one of the case that just ended affirmative action. "There is no evidence that there's a practice of anti-Asian discrimination." [/quote]

Source: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/02/1183981097/affirmative-action-asian-americans-poc

Asians are useful idiots for white conservatives. [/quote]

I wonder how this will play out when the percentage of asians getting into elite schools next year is about the same as it was this year, but the percentage of white kids went up.  Will they see they got conned?[/quote]

Asians are already 4x overrepresented in elite schools.  Not sure what their complaint is, other than perhaps they think all Asians, and only Asians should be attending elite schools...[/quote]

OMG are you all this dense?  Or just pretending to be to allow this racism to go on?  The complaint is that Asians were denied admissions because of their race.  The ask is not that only Asians attend elite schools, but that EVERY student be judged on their own merits and not by their race.  I do not see how the percent of asians at elite schools vs general population is relevant at all, unless your basic assumption is racism (only looking at what is fair through the lens of race). [/quote]

Because if Asians are over-represented, Universities aren't disqualifying Asians because of their race. [/quote]

Really, logic/math is not your strong suit. Your statement above doesn't make any logical sense. Over represented based on what rubric? The whole point is while Asians were overrepresented based on their baseline population, they were [b]underrepresented based on merit[/b]. [/quote]

What does "merit" mean when you use the term? [/quote]

Universities are academic institutions.  merit is therefore showing an aptitude via grades, tests, or other metrics, for academic subjects [/quote]

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