Right.
For a while the bigoted left didn’t quite know what to do about the Orientals - they are generally quite smart, civilized, and build rather than destroy. On the other hand yellow is not white. What to do, what to do?
Apparently the path of least resistance is to treat them as white, and work to take them down with the white man.
Hard not to notice an inverse correlation between intelligence and virtue in the progressive value system.