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[quote=Anonymous]https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-pta-purge-of-asians-11626128073

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“The mostly-white Virginia PTA is trying to hijack our all-minority TJ victory because we are an inconvenient minority for them. The woke warriors are so afraid of our mostly immigrant, mostly Asian parents because we defy their narrative of oppressed minorities in a racist America. We’re unapologetic, and that scares them so much they don’t even realize how they are now perpetrators of a systemic racism and tyranny they claim to oppose.”

It’s certainly not bringing out the best in people who pride themselves on racial sensitivity. Virginia’s education secretary, Atif Qarni, likened Asian-American kids taking test preparation to athletes taking illegal performance-enhancing drugs. A member of the Fairfax County school board called the majority Asian-American TJ culture “toxic” for African-American students. When principal Ann N. Bonitatibus, who is white, sent out a note in June 2020 to parents and students raising the “equity gap,” she asked them, in the name of fighting racism, to check their privilege.

Apparently no progressive thinks the real answer might be to do as Mr. Jackson suggests: Improve the pipeline by giving black and Latino families better grade schools and better alternatives to lift achievement. This, of course, would require a hard conversation about how so many of our public schools are failing black and Latino children. Over and over, the answer instead is to eliminate elite guilt and embarrassment over racial achievement gaps by eliminating the tests that expose them.

Today’s targeting of successful Asian-American kids lacks the crudity of a Jim Crow lunch counter or a whites-only drinking fountain. But it is no less ugly—and no less racially discriminatory—for being more genteel.[/quote][/quote]

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