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That's true, and those laws are supposed to right decades of misappropriation of education, finance, basic rights back to those that were wronged. The intent is
by batmaniam 4y ago
That's true, and those laws are supposed to right decades of misappropriation of education, finance, basic rights back to those that were wronged. The intent is sound, but the execution of it? I'm not sure it's been done fairly. Consider this:
Asians have been discriminated in many cases in the past as well. Goes way back to the days of slavery:
> After slavery was abolished in the United States, Chinese laborers were imported to the South as cheap labor to replace freed Blacks on the plantations [...] Starting as early as 1865, Southern newspapers began printing editorials and letters calling for Chinese labor to be the new labor supply.[2] This interest was sparked in part by accounts boasting that the Chinese contract labor attributed to the increase in Cuban agricultural imports. The Chinese effectively became the new labor supply but were positioned societally at the same level as African Americans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Labor_in_the_Southern_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Labor_in_the_Southern_...
Then you have the railroads era, WWII internments camp era, the Chinese Exclusion Act, 2021 Atlanta Spa shooting, and more. Then factor in all the other racist policies against Asians: minority roles in film, in white collar job sector, bamboo ceilings, violence/assaults against asians vs police response, US government witchhunt on Asian researchers during Covid, dealing with "Model Minority" myth...
Yet, Asians are constantly excluded when it comes to Affirmative action in these modern times, why is that? We can clearly see they've had an unpleasant history too, so why are institutions increasingly hostile against them? This isn't even restricted to Colleges, even though the lawsuit stemmed from it, we can see it affecting the workplace as well:
> "Asian Americans Are the Least Likely Group in the U.S. to Be Promoted to Management"
https://hbr.org/2018/05/asian-americans-are-the-least-likely-group-in-the-u-s-to-be-promoted-to-management https://hbr.org/2018/05/asian-americans-are-the-least-likely...
> "Pfizer defends exclusion of Asian and white applicants in fellowship, says it’s ‘non-discriminatory’"
https://www.yahoo.com/video/pfizer-defends-exclusion-asian-white-201725571.html https://www.yahoo.com/video/pfizer-defends-exclusion-asian-w...
We should embrace Asians to be part of the diversity and Affirmative Action policies, not reject them, so I feel the current implementation of AA needs to be addressed, which I hope the ongoing college lawsuit will do.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoUnspoken, but because they are perceived to be “working too hard” to succeed. For example, there are very few among the homeless population in CA. AA is not designed to solve this problem—of past transgressions that have been largely overcome.