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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Give it time, dear. NYC's Stuyvesant is like 75-80% Asian and the fact that half of them live at the poverty level doesn't stop the attacks claiming Asian privilege.
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Folks on this board love to compare TJ to Stuyvesant despite the fact that the Asian American community in NYC is wildly different, demographically and economically, than the Asian American community in NoVa. You can't claim marginalization just because a some folks whose parents came from the same landmass than yours happen to be poor in a totally different city. [/quote]

Sure, let's pretend that it's a complete coincidence that Asians dominate two of some of the most selective public schools in America.  Yes, the Asians at Stuy have nothing in common with Asians at TJ.

Let's also pretend that the Asian domination at Stuy causes no controversy whatsoever, or that their poverty level shields them from the attacks from equity advocates.[/quote]

Stuyvesant is basically proof that Asian Americans are not allowed to succeed.  Asians Americans in NYC are poor as dirt.  Yet, they still get vilified, and they still have a BOE that's hostile to them.

Would TJ and Stuyvesant get nearly as much hate if they were say 70% Latinos?  I suspect not.  Rather, I think the BOEs would be celebrating the success of Latinos in their school districts.

If Asian Americans at Stuyvesant can't be celebrated then under what scenario can the success of Asian Americans be celebrated?[/quote]

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