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The messages to Chloe Kim are terrible!

I don't understand the backlash over the NYT article.  Why it is offensive to say Asian Americans are over-represented in figure skating if that is indeed a factual statement? It is the same thing as if someone said Black Americans are overrepresented in the NFL or Male Americans are over-represented in technology companies or Elderly Americans are over-represented in the Presidency.

How should it be worded appropriately to say that a certain group holds proportion of the group that is more than what is seen in the general population? [/quote]

"Over-represented" is not a neutral word.  They should have found a better term.[/quote]

Such as ? [/quote]

Such as not focusing on race.  Are blacks over-represented in basketball? In football? F*ck you racist hypocrites. [/quote]

Yes? I literally used an example of how black athletes are over represented in the NFL in my original comment, did you read that?

But by the way I completely agree with you that there should be less focus on race and identity politics in general. However, I do not think it is constructive to criticize fact based statements as racism. There will always be both over representation and under representation in all elements of US society because 100% perfect representation of the populace is nearly impossible. Organizations like the NYT seem to be hyper focused on some theoretical idea of perfect representation in all elements of society which is very divisive in my opinion.

No need to curse at strangers on the internet, maybe try to calm down and find allies instead of jumping to conclusions. [/quote]

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