‘Fire Carranza!’: Why Asian-Americans Are Targeting Schools Chief. Protesters say the New York chancellor’s integration agenda harms their children, but he responds that it would benefit “all cultures and all ethnic groups.”

New York Times ^ | March 3, 2020 | Eliza Shapiro

[karpov]

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Mr. Carranza’s focus on racial inequality in city schools has drawn ire from prominent conservatives across the country, many of whom are white. But the Mexican-American chancellor has faced his strongest critics closer to home, from some of those in the city’s Asian community.

That rift, which is at the center of an emotional debate among families of color about merit and fairness in city schools, threatens to undermine the chancellor’s remaining two years as one of the most influential education officials in the country.

“You have this chancellor and this mayor who have all these great ideas, but the ideas don’t include Asians,” said Amy Tse, a Queens mother who frequently attends anti-Carranza allies.

“They never even mention Asians. It’s always a white-black thing.”

Mr. Carranza’s handling of a 2018 fight over how to enroll more black and Hispanic students in the city’s top public high schools offended and alienated many Asian-Americans — and not just parents.

Sen. John Liu, a Democratic state senator who represents a large Asian population in Queens, helped ensure that the specialized school plan failed in Albany this past summer. “It’s important to be a chancellor for all school kids,” Mr. Liu said. “Two years in, Carranza is falling behind on the curve on that.”

The chancellor has also faced criticism from Representative Grace Meng, a Queens Democrat, along with other Asian-American Democrats in the New York City Council and State Legislature.

And the chasm continues to deepen.

Since the start of this school year, Asian-American parents have accused Mr. Carranza of prejudice over a range of issues, from his decision not to fire an elected parent leader who called Asians “yellow folks” to the fact that the city considered relocating one of the chancellor’s upcoming town hall meetings from Chinatown

[karpov]

The groups in the Democratic coalition -- blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and Jews -- don't like each other. Asians who don't like racial preferences in education should vote Republican.

[bkopto]

Asians ought to wise up and stop voting for the people that hate them.

[Steely Tom]

Mr. Carranza’s focus on racial inequality in city schools has drawn ire from prominent conservatives across the country, many of whom are white. But the Mexican-American chancellor has faced his strongest critics closer to home, from some of those in the city’s Asian community.

In other words, ignore the New Yorkers who are angry with him because "prominent conservatives across the country who are white" have criticized him; this makes anyone who criticizes him a racist.

[bkopto]

The collectivists and identitarians are all about “science”, except when the science deals with genetics and IQ.

[BBQToadRibs]

Once you focus first and foremost on diversity quotas, you lose excellence. You are purposefully accepting that some of the best and brightest may not make the arbitrary diversity cut because of their skin color. Now where’s the real racism? And I’m not pushing whites forward. I’m saying let the scores, the accomplishments, maybe an essay speak for themselves and see what happens. We might surprise ourselves.

[A_Former_Democrat]

And rob them and beat them up

[EinNYC]

Carranza's ONLY focus has been "racial inequality". NOTHING done to improve academics at all. Despite it being a natural thing that there are different neighborhoods in a city, with different ethnic groups occupying them, different levels of wealth, different characters--name me one large city where this is not true--Carranza insists, good commie hardliner that he is, that EVERY neighborhood school must have identical percentages of given ethnic groups. Harlem schools must have X% of blacks, Y% of Hispanics, Z% of Asians, etc. And the lower East side must have the exact same percentages in its classrooms. Etc. Never mind that this forces kids to sometimes take 2 buses and a train to commute over an hour to school---EQUALITY must be the ruling principle.

I should also mention that there was a recent article in the NY Post detailing the hideously expensive over-the-top office Comrade Carranza just got built for himself to occupy in the education headquarters. That money could have been used to relieve class overcrowding, buy classroom supplies, anything else but his self-aggrandizement. Piece of dirt, go back where you came from!

[Ohioan]

Actually, these policies undermine the pros[ects of children of every race involved. No legitimate interest is served by the arbitrary experiments that try to force children into question begging experiments.

How The Left Keeps Minorities Dependent

[Lee25]

As Chinese American I have no sympathy towards those Asians in nyc
They got what they voted for.

[9YearLurker]

Yes, because those high-achieving Asian students will be so much better off “enriched” by the experience of being in more diverse classes geared for significantly lower-achieving students.

[bkopto]

I’m saying let the scores, the accomplishments, maybe an essay speak for themselves

The left believes only in equality of outcomes because they believe everyone is an identical blank slate when born.

Any deviation of outcome from the average, and in the case of some minorities, below average, is due to racism, white privilege, and a tilted playing field.

Therefore, the left will never accept the concept of a meritocracy.

[Gay State Conservative]

Study after study shows that in this country Asians do better in school...and in life (financially,at least)...than do whites,Hispanics or blacks. So it can't be denied that when SJWs try to screw with the education system it's Asians who have the most to lose.

[Gay State Conservative]

Do Asians in this country tend to vote Rat?

[ThunderStruck94]

Yup. Lock, stock and barrel. Only people who don’t take care of their own are conservative whites.

[dfwgator]

‘I don’t care if every seat is held by an Asian if they’ve earned the right to be there.’” - Ronald Reagan, the Governor of California

[blam]

"Asians who don't like racial preferences in education should vote Republican."

70% of them voted for Obama, twice.