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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]

I can’t imagine moving to Korea and expressing strong opinions about policies intended to redress historical discrimination in Korea.  My family in Japan have endured pretty horrific discrimination despite being born in Japan, and even so they would never presume to try to comment on policies in Japan related to Japan’s history.

As an American family whose family has been here since 1700 and whose family cemetery includes a lot of Civil War dead  —- STFU or go back to Korea. [/quote]

PP is an American.  Who the F are you to tell anyone to go anywhere [/quote]

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