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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Asra Nomani is a nominally Muslim woman born in Mumbai who voted for Donald Trump, argued in favor of his ban on immigration from select Muslim-majority countries, and supports racial profiling against Muslims. Her views on Islam are fairly well-understood as "Islam should change fundamentally from what it has been for millenia" - why she feels the need to continue to self-identify with a religion she disagrees with on such a visceral level is a mystery to most who follow her career.

She currently has a senior at TJ and has been, very vocally and very recently, thunderously in support of the very narrow definition of merit that has been peddled by those seeking to maintain the status quo with respect to TJ admissions, and those seeking to break down the recent improvements in elite college admissions. It is no accident that she has taken up this mantle as her son begins the college application process.

She carries over 50,000 followers on Twitter due to her past as a professor at Georgetown and as a Wall Street Journal contributor. Both associations ended poorly. Her Twitter feed reads very much like Trump's - vicious, insecure, self-serving, jingoistic, and full of retweets of literally any account (human or bot) that appears to agree with her. Seemingly her favorite tactic is to intentionally misinterpret the arguments and intentions of anyone who disagrees with her and to lampoon them publicly.

Key example - she is claiming right now that the TJ PTSA is banned from these conversations. It is only Asra who is banned, but her intent is to inflame public opinion against meaningful change by claiming that Secy. Qarni is banning the entire TJ PTSA from the sessions. It's a clever tactic, and one that might be successful with an increasingly myopic community, but it's severely disingenuous and a perfect example of how she operates.[/quote]

Neither her views on Islam (I mean, what exactly are your credentials to assess them) nor her political affiliation should be a factor in the decision to allow or to ban her from these proceedings.  Half the country voted for Trump - will you ban them too? What is this discrimination based on political views? [/quote]

Did I say anything about the merits of her being banned? Crucially, I did not. The purpose of the biographical information is to provide context for her perspective. I am in favor of her being banned because of her inflammatory and derogatory rhetoric on various social media platforms which insinuates that Black and Hispanic students are inherently less qualified than Asian students - which I view as a moral rather than a political issue - but in this particular post I did not reference the merits of her being banned.

I would similarly argue that anyone who believes that slavery was a good thing should probably not have a voice in conversations about Confederate monuments.[/quote]

Interesting.  So you propose everyone who voted for Trump be banned from these proceedings? Or all Muslims? Or all Islam-critical Muslims?  Let's see a full list of your enlightened criteria on who should be allowed to participate in this debate. [/quote]

The list is:

Everyone who thinks that Black and Hispanic students are inherently less intelligent than white and Asian students shouldn't have a voice in this conversation. Period. If that happens to coincide with people who voted for Trump, so be it. I would hope that it isn't. [/quote]

I see.  Then why did you bring up her relationship with Islam? Why did you mention she was born in Mumbai? Did you imply that anyone born in Mumbai cannot opine on the state of TJ, or is somehow less than someone born in the US? Why did you bring up her voting record? Why not lead with what you REALLY consider objectionable? [/quote]

Her hypocrisy, opportunism, and overt AND covert racism are what are objectionable.[/quote]

How about your racism towards Asians? [/quote]

Citation needed[/quote]

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