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> This country is hellbent on disenfranchising high-achieving Asians, who have the misfortune of looking too "Other" and get marked as such in racial compositio
by anm89 6y ago
> This country is hellbent on disenfranchising high-achieving Asians, who have the misfortune of looking too "Other" and get marked as such in racial composition stats.
Being hyperbolic like this diminishes the rest of your point(which I'm generally inclined to agree with)
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoIt's not hyperbolic. The school board presented it as an explicit selling point of the merit lottery program (https://youtu.be/n3FS9TY0lcg?t=1669 https://youtu.be/n3FS9TY0lcg?t=1669) that Asians would be disenfranchised in favor of other races.
- anm89 6y agoA policy existing which hurts your group is not the state being hell bent on disenfranchising you. Hyperbolic.
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- SpicyLemonZest 6y ago"Oppressing" is a much more fraught judgement, I agree. But it seems clear that the architects of this policy think there are too many Asians and want to see fewer of them, and I'd characterize policies aimed at excluding specific racial groups as disenfranchisement.