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Whenever this obvious bs excuse is used, the glaring question becomes of why are Asians suppressed by it? If it's about classically suppressed races and system

Whenever this obvious bs excuse is used, the glaring question becomes of why are Asians suppressed by it? If it's about classically suppressed races and systematic racism, it's pretty hypocritical to be penalizing Asians. Especially when recent years have also seen a surge in people pretending to care about racism against Asians.

kelnos 3y ago
Because racism can have different effects depending on who is perpetrating it. The recent surge in racism against Asians has been mostly about verbal and physical violence directed against Asian people. For the most part, Asian people haven't been missing out on educational and professional opportunities because of it. That's not been the case for other manifestations of racism. There's really no hypocrisy here; you just seem to have adopted this very narrow, binary view of racism's effects and what needs to be done to correct those effects.
- dotnet00 3y ago
  Are you making the ridiculous implication that systematic racism against Asians hasn't existed prior to recent events? >For the most part, Asian people haven't been missing out on educational and professional opportunities because of it. Yes, no thanks to you! Apparently being willing to throw away our childhoods studying to make up for racism's effects means we deserve to face more racism.
wredue 3y ago
I don’t think I, or the idea of affirmative action said anything about racism against asians, in particular the recent surge (most probably due to Mr CHAI-NUH and his base). A system of “merit” simply cannot be built on top of a system of racism. Merit is a nice end goal, but making it merit based when you’ve already made it impossible for some races to get merit is racist. Personally, I think this is an “as a black man” reply to distract from the fact that you have zero actual response.

kelnos 3y ago

Because racism can have different effects depending on who is perpetrating it. The recent surge in racism against Asians has been mostly about verbal and physical violence directed against Asian people. For the most part, Asian people haven't been missing out on educational and professional opportunities because of it. That's not been the case for other manifestations of racism. There's really no hypocrisy here; you just seem to have adopted this very narrow, binary view of racism's effects and what needs to be done to correct those effects.

dotnet00 3y ago
Are you making the ridiculous implication that systematic racism against Asians hasn't existed prior to recent events? >For the most part, Asian people haven't been missing out on educational and professional opportunities because of it. Yes, no thanks to you! Apparently being willing to throw away our childhoods studying to make up for racism's effects means we deserve to face more racism.

wredue 3y ago

I don’t think I, or the idea of affirmative action said anything about racism against asians, in particular the recent surge (most probably due to Mr CHAI-NUH and his base). A system of “merit” simply cannot be built on top of a system of racism. Merit is a nice end goal, but making it merit based when you’ve already made it impossible for some races to get merit is racist. Personally, I think this is an “as a black man” reply to distract from the fact that you have zero actual response.