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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate the term biopic, but of course guys is a consideration. I am Indian American, born here. We value diversity in our family. We live in a country where race has become electrified. See the comments by JD about Usha and how Indians are made fun of on social media, how Trump refers to immigrants as illegals, and how her ghoulishly depicted the House Majority Leader inexplicably wearing a sombrero. I’m disgusted by many of the comments here, but clearly I’ve been deluding myself that the higher educated DCUM population is reasonable and not racist. Glad to see there are some white students who care to mix with others. [/quote]

But, Indians and Indian-Americans are not BIPOCs.[/quote]

Why?  Are they white?  BIPOCs are basically all non-white.  [/quote]

Indians are not URMs, because they benefit from unearned privilege.  This is why Indians and other Asian peoples are excluded from programs which take race into consideration, such as many scholarships set aside exclusively to benefit BIPOCs.[/quote]

Indians are not URM.  They are, however, BIPOCs.[/quote]

The central defining characteristic of being BIPOC is having experienced racism and oppression (particularly economic oppression) at the hands of whites and white culture. Indians have long had higher HHI and a far greater rate of college attainment than whites, proportionally. The same is true for other Asian peoples. Thus, by definition, Indians, Indian-Americans, and Asian peoples are not BIPOC. [/quote]

That is a completely ignorant statement considering the ugly history of anti Asian discrimination and hate crimes in the United States, starting as early as the Gold Rush era, and extending to the present day with Covid related hate crimes. The fact that a certain subsegment of the Asian population has tended to outperform in a small specific area of academics does not negate their minority status and relative lack of political and cultural representation/power in the US. Further, the above poster is conflating certain Asian groups like Indians and Chinese as representing the good fortunes of all Asian groups, which is another gross oversimplification. Should
we talk as if all white Southerners are racist redneck gunowners, or all black people are drug dealers and live in housing projects? [/quote]

You are grouping a lot of people from many different countries under the "Asian" label conveniently for your argument. Indians were not around during the Gold Rush. Filippinos have little in common with Chinese people.[/quote]

This grouping of many countries under the “Asian” group is a direct response to an earlier poster saying all Asian people are privileged and therefore not BIPOC. They are pointing out that Asians are a disparate group. You guys are agreeing with each other, dimwit. [/quote]

No, I was responding to the part that stated "The fact that a certain subsegment of the Asian population has tended to outperform in a small specific area of academics does not negate their minority status and relative lack of political and cultural representation/power in the US."[/quote]

Point is:

As a whole, Asians are privileged.  And that is why they cannot be included.[/quote]

What privilege do asians have?  Is it earned privilege or unearned privilege or does that distinction not matter to you?[/quote]

Asian privilege:
Building railroads 
Chinese Exclusion Act
Ineligible for buying or renting a house 
... [/quote]

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