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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here the reason I ask is that the right seems to be fixated on admissions to schools like HYP and affirmative action. Why do they even want to be there? Why not just have right wing school with stellar academics, envy of everyone, plus no affirmative action? My theory is that they are simply incapable of duplicating the same caliber of school. They are loud, but not very patient or hard working. [/quote]

As it's already been pointed out, academics with no real-life experience tend to gravitate to political liberals.  It has more to do with the type of people who gravitate to the life of the university -  and nothing to do with the silly idea that political conservatives have no financial means of supporting a university.  [/quote]

Do you have experience at elite universities? You couldn't be more wrong.

Also, PP wasn't saying conservatives don't have the financial means to support a university; the issue is that right-wing politics (contemporarily conceived -- not right wing in the traditional sense, such as fiscal conservatism) are essentially incompatible with the culture of intellectual inquiry elite universities try to cultivate. [/quote]
+1  Many Trumpsters say they want to go back to the way American used to be. Conservatives do not like change (progress) of any sort. They don't like the fact that automation has killed jobs (never mind that it has created more high paying jobs); they don't like that women want more equality, or (gasp) gays. They don't like that science has taken over religiosity (think Isaac Newton, but on a smaller scale); they want our teens to stay ignorant about their bodies and sex so don't want sex ed taught in schools.

Not all conservatives are like this. There are sane ones, but the current R party seems to have been overtaken by these extreme conservatives they hate any kind of progress or enlightened thinking.[/quote]

Trump supports the current lawsuit against Harvard.  [/quote]

Do YOU support anti-Asian American systemic racial discrimination?[/quote]

Trump and his administration support the lawsuit against Harvard -  he does not support anti-Asian American systematic racial discrimination.  In fact, he supports justice, equality, freedom, and prosperity for all Americans.

Unemployment has been the lowest in memory, including for African-Americans.  The stock market's been up at least 30% since his inauguration.    [/quote]
oh please oh please, I am not happy about the discrimination of Asian Americans, but I also know that Trump is no friend to a group of people who are largely recent immigrants, made up of chain migration.  Why do you suppose support of Trump by Asian Americans is low if Asian Americans thought Trump was "on their side"?  This group used to vote R. No longer.[/quote]

You are clueless about Asian Americans (and I guess about Hispanics too).

Most are NOT, I insist most are NOT, recent immigrants.

Yes, they do care about immigration, and would love to see a rational system in place, but they know that Dems didn't move a finger in that direction when they got a chance.

Like most Americans, their priority os about jobs and the economy, probably followed by law and order.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if a majority of Asian Americans voted GOP in 2018 and 2020.[/quote]
haha... pp here.. I'm an Asian American immigrant. Most of my Asian American friends are immigrants; they were not born here. They came here when they were very young, and yes, most came through chain migration.  I used to be a R, too, but most of my Asian American friends are Dems now. I'm in Independent leaning D after Trump.

Asian immigrants really started to come here en masse in the 80s and 90s when racist laws were changed to allow in more non white immigrants.  Very few in the 70's (when I came).   IMO, that's "recent" enough in that the majority who vote came here in that time period.   The very recent ones cannot vote since it takes years to become citizens.  I'm from CA, home of the largest Asian American immigrant community.

You are the clueless one about Asian Americans, and probably Hispanics (lots of them in CA, too).  Look at how they have voted in the past 30 years.  They started out voting for Rs, but now most of them vote D.  You might want to think about why that is.

Your post was too funny, and ignorant.[/quote]

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