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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not Asian but I hope they fight back. In my city, our number 1 magnet has a high Asian population. Similar things are happening with the admissions process. However, a large percentage of the Asian population have parents who are poor immigrants. People keep throwing the word "privilege" around. I am mot sure how being a poor immigrant and probably a high percentage are not documented make you privileged.

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Agree 100%.

The left - on every level - has increasingly fostered a hatred towards Asian people.

Their motive seems to be that the Asian experience in the United States simply obliterates the left’s narrative about “privilege.”

For example, the left pushes this idea:

- “the idea that hard work [b]alone[/b] leads to success is a racist micro-aggression”. (implying you are a racist if you say, teach your kids, or even think this is true).

Tired of it, and not following the democrats BS any longer.  Completely done with that party, and I am officially an independent now.[/quote]

FYP. My view is that the racist micro-aggression is the implication that the certain groups (URM, ED, etc.) aren't attaining success simply because they don't work hard. On the other hand, there's nothing racist about acknowledging that hard work is often [b]one component[/b] of success (though for some who are very advantaged, it isn't necessarily a [i]requirement[/i] either). That may seem like a subtle distinction to you, but it's an absolutely critical one... if you overindex just on "hard work" and believe in the oxymoronic platitude that anyone can just "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" if they simply have the will, etc. then yeah, that's ignoring a ton of structural and other factors, many/most of which have racist elements to them, and hence is an overall racist idea (even if that racism is born out of ignorance and oversimplification, rather than outright intent or contempt).[/quote]

BS.

Under your false belief system, systemic white racism would never allow poor, non-English speaking Asian immigrants to ever succeed in the US (and yet they overwhelmingly do).

You believe non-white (or using your intersectional / leftist term, BIPOC) people cannot “pull themselves up by their own boot straps” - and yet, that is exactly what Asian immigrants overwhelmingly do in the United States.[/quote]

To be fair, black folks have been pulling themselves up by the bootstraps for generations and have real (albeit insufficient) progress to show for it.  Of course, as a group, Asians are MUCH more successful. But then again, Asians are also much more successful than whites, as measured by academic achievement, representation in high-prestige professions, income, etc.

So I guess the question is what is it that keeps white folks (who enjoy privileges that Asians don't) from meeting the "Asian standard"? What explains this achievement gap? I mean, black folks have a real lived history with their hard work being unrequited, so one can sorta understand the lack of devotion to academic success, as misguided and self-defeating as that may be.  But what excuse do white folks have?

And how are Asians performing (or how will they perform) once we get to the 3rd, 4th, or 5th generation?

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