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Article which counters the Asians as the " model minority" myth.

[b]"More than two in three Asian Americans – 69% – support affirmative action, and that’s been the case for nearly a decade. Within that demographic, support is highest among Korean Americans and Asian Indian Americans (at least 80%) and lowest among Chinese Americans, 59% of whom say they favor such policies. [/b]

Despite that polling data and widespread Asian American activism in support of affirmative action, Students for Fair Admissions – whose conservative donors have engaged in a larger crusade targeting issues including voting rights – have sought to paint a different picture. They are, critics say, using Asian Americans as a wedge to incite infighting among communities of color."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2022/11/06/affirmative-action-case-harvard-admissions-asian-americans/10599572002/

In the Affirmative Action cases before the Supreme Court, the conservative Students For Fair Admissions (SFFA) - led by Ed Blum - is using the Asian Americans to keep URMs marginalized.[/quote]

That sounds odd to me. I don't know any Asian who supports AA, myself included.

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I am Korean American and i do not know any Korean American supporting AA. In Fact, many are angry about it.[/quote]

You're part of the 31%. That's ok. Just don't be in denial that there are a decent Asians who support AA. There was a strong contingent who were at the Supreme Court during the actual hearing.

[b]What you you "angry" about?[/b]

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That just shows how clueless you are how Asians really feel. You must be white. [/quote]

Can't answer the question. Ok. [/quote]

Umm.. Asian people do not owe you the emotional and educational labor to explain why anti-Asian policies make them angry. Educate yourself please. [/quote]

STILL can't answer the question but want to babble nonsense.

Get off the thread

Bye. [/quote]

It's not that Asian posts can't answer the question. If you don't know the answer yourself, you don't belong here talking about us. What do you really know about how we, Asians, are feeling? I mean seriously, what do you know about Asians? [/quote]

A PP stated that he/ she was "angry" about affirmative action. Not angry in general. You need to read better.

Polls indicate that 69% of Asian Americans support affirmative action.

If some Asians are "angry" it's not because of affirmative action specifically, but because of straight racism and anti-Asian hate, mostly politicized by right wing politicians.
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You really don't understand Asian mindset/perspective. I am not the "angry" poster but that poster is correct. A lot of Asians I know (particularly parents with kids in MS/HS) are "angry" about AA. They don't see it as a tool to create diversity, they view it as a tool to screw Asian kids. What you are hearing thru out this thread is Asian posters (mostly older posters with kids in MS/HS maybe) saying they don't agree with AA and they are angry about it. And they do not believe the article is accurate - probably because they have never met anyone who support AA including myself. [/quote]

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