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[quote=Anonymous][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]

BIPOC is a term that excludes Asian immigrants or American born Asian-Americans.  As does the term URM.  By definition, they are not the subject of the discussion.  [/quote]

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/0/1041477.page#22129843[/quote]

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