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I think the part of the issue that bothers me most is how much of a double standard there is between what counts as racism against African Americans and rasism
by Veelox 8y ago
I think the part of the issue that bothers me most is how much of a double standard there is between what counts as racism against African Americans and rasism against Asian Americans. Objectively, if you have two identical applications to Harvard except one is labeled black and the other is labeled Asian, the black one has a higher chance of success.
They do the same thing with fake job applications with white names and black names. When whites get called back at higher rates that rasism. Yet when it's Harvard doing it to Asians, that's okay.
This just rubs me the wrong way.
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- dang 8y agoMods didn't. Users flagged it.
- baud147258 8y agoThank you for the info.
- gaius 8y agoAs a non-white who doesn’t fit into any of the pre-defined buckets, race-specific programmes have always bothered me too. I never play the race card to gain advantage but hypothetically if I’m as generally discriminated against as a member of group X but there’s a quota for X that I’m not eligible for then I’ve been double-discriminated against.
- cowpewter 8y agoI've never thought about it that way, but as a mixed-race white/asian, I wonder if including that information rather than just letting them assume "white" from my name actually hurt me rather than helped me when I applied to (and did not get accepted to) the ivy league 20 years ago.
- gaius 8y agoOops I seem to have strayed off the narrative - can always tell when the West Coast comes online, regular as clockwork
- Eridrus 8y agoSo, I don't think this is about any of the racial groups, but more so about the fact that diversity advocates have latched onto a narrative of underrepresentation of minorities as the issue, which is basically asking for equality in outcomes (i.e. demographically proportionate representation), and Asian Americans (largely due to skilled immigration) do not fit this framing. Except for Asian Americans this is a narrative that works well for minorities, and also lets them push for affirmative action that may be necessary to correct past injustices.