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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While most posters on this forum are driven by a sense of propriety and not malice - casual anti-Asian racism can lead you here

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/16/us/metro-atlanta-shootings/index.html

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Some pro FCPS admin posters here may not recognize their own casual anti-Asian racism, but they are perpetuating the same old racial stereotype and prejudice towards Asian communities. They don't really have any hard evidence to back up their assertion but they claimed things like "most TJ parents are here illegally", "far far too many TJ kids having mental health issues", "they cheat and prep", etc. In today's environment causal racism is deadly. Before spewing out your own prejudice ask yourself if you have real data to back it up.[/quote]

1) The claim of "most TJ parents are here illegally" is not one shared by the vast majority of pro-reform individuals, and certainly not of groups advocating for reform. It's a disgusting and manifestly untrue statement that is expressly refuted by evidence.

2) The claim of "far too many TJ kids having mental health issues" is 100% true, but is not an anti-Asian racist claim because those mental health issues are in no way limited to the Asian population at TJ. Indeed, those issues are probably underreported within TJ's Asian community because of the stigma attached to mental health issues among those communities.

3) "They cheat and prep" are two different claims. Tons of people prep from across communities, but when you have 133 students who are all of Indian descent that all are claimed as success stories by ONE company that specializes in TJ prep, it's a short leap from there to "Asian students benefit disproportionally from TJ prep opportunities". The cheating piece is another story entirely. Again at TJ, that cuts across demographics as well.

There is a far greater level of casual racism that comes from people who presume that students from underrepresented groups are less likely to thrive at TJ because they aren't forced to reach a certain combination of percentile scores on a battery of standardized tests that they'll be far less familiar with than the kids who spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours doing prep work.[/quote]

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