Posted on 11/17/2020 7:39:20 AM PST by artichokegrower
One school district in Washington state has evidently decided that Asians no longer qualify as persons of color.
In their latest equity report, administrators at North Thurston Public Schools—which oversees some 16,000 students—lumped Asians in with whites and measured their academic achievements against "students of color," a category that includes "Black, Latinx, Native American, Pacific Islander, and Multi-Racial Students" who have experienced "persistent opportunity gaps."
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“Colored people” is racist.
“People of Color” is double-plus good.
The problem for them is that making this change kills the “white supremacy” narrative. Is it now white/Asian supremacy?
And how do they explain why Asians have more “opportunities” than other non-white races? How can a group who is a much smaller minority than some of these lower performing races somehow have more opportunities?
So, if Asians are now ‘white’ people, we only have a few more to go before we are all the ‘human’ race. It’s important to establish precedent ;)
Do Japanese-American students qualify as “Pacific Islanders”? Japan is an Island in the Pacific.
Subcontinent Indians here in the US tend to outperform even whites. That’s because most Indians that migrated here are from the most elite caste - brahmin.
Asian Americans are “people of color” when convenient for our rulers for electoral purposes but “Caucasian” for job and education purposes. Likewise, Hispanics are “people of color” when they vote correctly, as for Democrats, but become “white” when they support Trump or defend themselves against minority assault.
People on this thread can’t accept it.
Congratulations Asians on also now being on the short end of the diversity stick....and welcome to the Republican Party.
Asians have been on the short end of the diversity stick for awhile now.
Liberals: White privilege is bad!
Also liberals: Support affirmative action policies that require an Asian student to score 140 points higher on the SAT than a *white* student to get into Harvard. That's 270 points higher than a Hispanic student and 450 points higher than a black student.
As is New Zealand.
I suspect it’s the same way my husband came to the US at the age of 14 and yet speaks better English than many blacks who claim it as their native tongue. The same way my husband went to a high school in a bad neighborhood with rampant gang activity and yet has nothing worse than a couple of speeding tickets and a parking ticket on his record. The folks who insist that all cultures are equal and that *all* inequalities are the result of a poor environment have some ‘splainin to do.
I have no doubt that it is harder to succeed when you come from a poor single-family home. It’s just that these disadvantages are more class-based than race-based. Plenty of poor rural whites in this country disdain “book learning” and where is the affirmative action for them? Black or white, many poor communities have a “crabs in a bucket” mentality and shun those trying to escape the cycle of poverty.
“single-family home” should read “single-parent home”.
The Left has worked hard to convert them to the religion of victimhood, and racial politics and hatred, but its basically failed.
Affirmative action results in systemic racism.
Has been ever since, and long before it was published in the 90’s.
You just don’t see a lot of life changing inventions or Nobel Laureates coming out of Africa or Latin America.
Perhaps it’s the heat and humidity.
And yet my understanding is that they still vote largely Dem.
The other dirty secret is that Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese never have seen themselves as victims or oppressed. They believe in self-responsibility. They actually believe in the ability and potential of their own race
One situation we're had in Florida with Vietnamese is they came here - started little businesses like restaurants so they could feed and educate their children - thinking they would leave the business to their kids.
The problem was the kids grew up, went to college, because successful professionals and didn't want to run the restaurant. It's how we lost the Vietnamese Restaurant that made the best Summer Rolls in town.
The problem was the kids grew up, went to college, because successful professionals and didn't want to run the restaurant.
Back in college, our favorite late-night greek restaurant was run by an older Korean couple. We all thought - poor immigrants, forced by poverty to serve drunk college students gyros at 3 AM.
They were both were very friendly, Christian couple. Had a nice conversation with them once at closing time. Their 3 kids had attended Harvard, Stanford and UPenn. One was a surgeon, another a lawyer, and the 3rd an exec at Raytheon in N. Virginia. They only worked because they wanted to keep busy.
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