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New York Times apparently thinks Asians are now 'white'
American Thinker ^ | 05/30/2014 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 05/30/2014 10:33:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Its’ quite a telling moment from the Gray Lady, spotted by Eugene Volokh of The Washington Post:

 The New York Times Bits blog reports:

Google on Wednesday released statistics on the makeup of its work force, providing numbers that offer a stark glance at how Silicon Valley remains a white man’s world.

But wait — just a few paragraphs down, the post notes that non-Hispanic whites are 61 percent of the Google work force, slightly below the national average. (That average, according to 2006-10 numbers, is 67 percent.) Google is thus less white than the typical American company.

The New York Times is joining Apartheid-era South Africa in conferring “honorary white” status on Asians.


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California; US: New York
KEYWORDS: asians; california; google; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; nyt; race; whiteasians
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To: SeekAndFind
Wow. For centuries, the slur was they were "yellow." Now they're white?

Who's next, the redskin?

-PJ

21 posted on 05/30/2014 11:11:40 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: mkboyce

People from Spain, are they Hispanic, or Caucasian? Last time I checked Spain is still physically connected to Europe. And what of the Portuguese? I grew up with Black people who are related to the Ramapo Indians, aka Jackson Whites, they’re a mixture of Caucasian, Black as well as Lenape, Mohican, and some Tuscarora, technically these folks are TRI-racial. This is why the gov’t wasting resources and tax $$$ on classifying us by race and ethnicities is inherently racist.


22 posted on 05/30/2014 11:12:18 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Veto!

I’ve yet to meet a 50-50 anybody not side with their “minority” side. I can think of about half a dozen celebrities who were rejected and abandoned by their “parent of color”, and raised by their pale parent—only to say they consider themselves “colored”.

I’m not shocked at all by that. Mixing does create confusion for individuals that eventually will self-identify.


23 posted on 05/30/2014 11:17:35 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Bible Summary in a few verses: John 14:6, John 6:29, Romans 10:9-10)
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To: Political Junkie Too
Wow. For centuries, the slur was they were "yellow." Now they're white?

Do these women look Yellow to anybody?





The picture above is Chinese, the picture in the middle is Korean. The picture below is Japanese.
24 posted on 05/30/2014 11:21:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Impala64ssa

Spaniards are not “Hispanic”, neither are Portuguese and Brazilians, nor Francophones from Haiti, French Guiana and other islands throughout the Caribbean.

Though, ever since progressives have gotten “Hispanic” to mean ‘aggrieved racial minority’ (when they are not), they aren’t too keen to exclude.


25 posted on 05/30/2014 11:22:33 AM PDT by mkboyce
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To: Impala64ssa

To answer your first question. Caucasian is their race, Hispanic is their ethnicity. Just like German is an ethnicity. I’m of Spanish decent fwiw....

Portuguese are Caucasian also—just that they have another “ethnicity”. Lusitanian ethnicity, but they are a whole lot more complicated than Spaniards.

Hell....Moroccan’s are Caucasian as all North African Berbers & Arabs are.

Either way, you’re right that this is nothing more than gov’t stupidity and waste.


26 posted on 05/30/2014 11:24:35 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Bible Summary in a few verses: John 14:6, John 6:29, Romans 10:9-10)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Yes, you’re right. Hallie Berry is 50-50 but thinks of herself as black.

And come to think of it, a person I know rather well is 25% AmerInd and totally identifies with being an Indian, carting around all the resentment and anger towards the White Man that entails. I had to fire him as a friend. Of course, 1/4 Indian blood entitles him to certain benefits…just saying.


27 posted on 05/30/2014 11:26:24 AM PDT by Veto! (OpInions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: SeekAndFind; MNDude

New York Times apparently thinks Asians are now ‘white’

Is it because, as a demographic, they’re largely successful, family oriented Americans with a decent work ethic?


28 posted on 05/30/2014 11:29:48 AM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: PeteePie

RE: Is it because, as a demographic, they’re largely successful, family oriented Americans with a decent work ethic?

So what does that have to do with skin color?


29 posted on 05/30/2014 11:31:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Once you understand that The Left’s understanding of businesses is that they exist only for the purpose of providing jobs that pay at least a living wage; all that they do makes sense.

But the fact that you do not get a perfect mix of the racial profile of the state applying at your business doesn’t matter, you still are responsible to go out and find those elusive little minority workers to make sure you are in compliance with EEOC rules.

The mere fact that qualified minority workers for the jobs available are not to be found in the area does not matter you will be found guilty of discrimination if you are investigated. Even if you have an abundance of one minority a dearth in another minority will be proof of guilt.

Face it; it is impossible to comply in most cases.

30 posted on 05/30/2014 11:32:11 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Oberon

No that’s “acting white”.


31 posted on 05/30/2014 11:35:05 AM PDT by xp38
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To: SeekAndFind
I'm just saying what the slur was.

-PJ

32 posted on 05/30/2014 11:47:20 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Didn’t read Google’s filing but are Indians included as part of Asians? Have to believe there plenty of Indian engineers at Google and are you going to tell me they’re honorary whites as well? Sounds like the left is simply arguing Educated = Majority vs. Uneducated = Minority.


33 posted on 05/30/2014 11:48:43 AM PDT by Renkluaf
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To: Political Junkie Too

RE: I’m just saying what the slur was.

I realize that but realistically, why are they called “yellow” when their skin clearly isn’t?

Maybe some are yellowish, but not all.

Heck, some of them are WHITE than caucasians....


34 posted on 05/30/2014 11:52:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Hispanics can go either way with liberals. That is depending on what they are trying to promote at the time. George Zimmerman is a White person when they are promoting gun control as one example.


35 posted on 05/30/2014 11:56:39 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: SeekAndFind
It's probably dietary. Minerals in the soil affecting skin pigmentation.

-PJ

36 posted on 05/30/2014 12:03:02 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Oberon

Lefties used to charge `racism’ for calling Asian (meaning east Asian) students “grade grinds” because all they did was study & excel.

If a black student does the same, he/she is ACCUSED of “acting white” by da hood.

In terms of general societal behavior, east Asians and east Indians can be considered white. I dated a Korean gal for a while & neither we nor anyone else regarded that as race mixing.


37 posted on 05/30/2014 12:10:59 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: neodad

Hispanics are considered white if it furthers the agenda.


38 posted on 05/30/2014 12:11:14 PM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: neodad
It’s not that they’re white that matters to the NYT. It’s that they’re not black and not hispanic.

In more general terms, are they a "grievance" minority or not. The latter all get lumped into "white".

39 posted on 05/30/2014 12:15:15 PM PDT by kevkrom (I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The left is obsessed with dividing people into groups by race or anything else they can think of.


40 posted on 05/30/2014 12:18:00 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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