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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Racist" is being thrown around too casually.  People simply have different viewpoints of the concept of meritocracy.

It is no stretch to say that there is a significant cohort of the US Asian population that deeply believes in the concept of true meritocracy and that decisions should be made based on performance (test scores or other measures of ability).  There is another viewpoint (often put forward by liberals) that says that merit can only take us so far as a society, and the benefit of having a broader population represented is critical because of the concept of cohorts and underrepresented populations having "success" stories to look up to.

These two trains of thought are only generally clashing at the margins.[/quote]

Except it does sound like there's some racism going on, or at least implicit bias.  From the OP's description it sounds like AAPIs are the second biggest group in the school by a wide margin, and possibly a majority.  Yet hardly any of them are getting chosen for leadership/speaking positions.  By the OP's own words the leaders are mostly white kids with some URMs sprinkled in.  The AAPI kids are being ignored.

Yet the gut reaction by many people is to doubt or ignore that Asian Americans experience bias or racism.  That first reply is an example of it.  Totally ignored what's happening to the Asian American kids and focused on defending the selection of URMs.[/quote]

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