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| Critical Race Theory Has No Idea What To Do With Asian Americans |
| 2021-07-14 |
| h/t HotAir [Newsweek] - One of today's most vexing federal lawsuits is Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which has brought anti-Asian discrimination to the forefront of our discourse. Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) contends that Harvard's "race-conscious" admissions process violates the Constitution by disadvantaging Asian American applicants based solely upon their race, while Harvard argues that campus diversity goals justify its race-conscious process. Much of the reasoning behind Harvard's admissions process comes from critical race theory (CRT), a theory of race that actually originated at Harvard University. CRT teaches that America is divided into privileged and oppressed racial groups. All negative aspects of modern society flow from that overly simplistic dichotomy. Under the CRT framework, "white supremacy" covers many different phenomena. Everything from blatant discrimination to the existence of English grammar to choosing not to riot are sometimes included under the term. And in the words of "anti-racist" activist and author Ibram X. Kendi, "The only remedy to racist discrimination is anti-racist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination." In order to combat white supremacy—however broadly defined—critical race theorists view "anti-racist" discrimination as the only legitimate response. To put it another way "We know we can't compete on the level playing field". However, with the emergence of several racial groups that have come to be just as successful as whites, critical race theorists have come up with the term, "white adjacency." Robin DiAngelo, author of the now-infamous book White Fragility, defines it this way: "The closer you are to whiteness—the term often used is white-adjacent—you're still going to experience racism, but there are going to be some benefits due to your perceived proximity to whiteness. The further away you are, the more intense the oppression's going to be." According to CRT advocates, Asian Americans are the most "white-adjacent" minority. ...The idea of "white adjacency" hinges on the overwhelming success of Asian Americans in this country. It emerges from the fact that Asian Americans have the highest per-capita income, lowest per-capita crime rates and highest rates of college education. In fact, Asian Americans score better on average than whites on all of these metrics. And that's (IMO) one of the reasons why bastions of the Establishment, like Harvard, cooperate with "African-American" rabble rousers. The Establishment doesn't feel threatened by "African-Americans" (affirmative action gifts can always be taken away). The principal goal of any ruling class is to stay the ruling class - every other consideration is secondary. Let me go out on a limb & predict that - in a few years - Harvard will start discriminating against (some) "Hispanics". |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #11 Saying Asians enjoy white privilege is a tell. Privilege is cognitive ability. Europeans and Asians have, on average, much higher IQs than people from Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. |
| Posted by: Jean DuSable 2021-07-14 19:20 |
| #10 I thought this was established? Keep them out of college and beat them in the streets, blame White People. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-07-14 14:01 |
| #9 They also don't know what to do with African Immigrants who succeed. Something I noticed the other day, you don't see middle class successful black people on the news. It is either someone from the elite grifter class, your Sharptons and Obamas, or it is Dwantavious and Shawniqua from the 'hood engaging in unsocial behavior. One place you *do* see middle class blacks lately is on social media as they righteously rip the local school board/teacher's union a new one for trying to permanently handicap their children's future prospects. I take that as a good sign. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-07-14 13:45 |
| #8 They have lower crime rate, more stable families and higher per capital incomes than the average non Hispanic white Americana https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_income Re household income, that's only true, "from a certain point of view". The white number includes Hispanics. The ethnicities lower down the scale from Nigerians are Arabs and Hispanics. The numbers aren't controlled for household size. Three generations living and working under one roof? One household. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2021-07-14 13:31 |
| #7 They also don't know what to do with African Immigrants who succeed. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2021-07-14 12:48 |
| #6 Someone didn't get the talking points, the Marxist simply classify Asians as the new whites. They can do math so that kinda proves your point. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-07-14 11:51 |
| #5 |
| Posted by: Jiling Gravitch9209 v 2021-07-14 11:21 |
| #4 Success of Asian Americans debunks critical race theory, ‘Inconvenient Minority’ author says |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-07-14 10:14 |
| #3 even better problem for CRT is the Nigerian-American community They self identify ethnically as Nigerian, not African-American but they are black and probably have less Caucasian DNA then African Americans. They have lower crime rate, more stable families and higher per capital incomes than the average non Hispanic white American |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2021-07-14 09:46 |
| #2 Someone didn't get the talking points, the Marxist simply classify Asians as the new whites. Interesting how they separate out Hispanics of whom most consider themselves white while playing this Newspeak game. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-07-14 06:44 |
| #1 p.s. CRT knows perfectly well what to do with Asian Americans. Discrimination in places like Harvard, and physical attacks on the street by their "African American" thugs. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-07-14 02:29 |