2021-03-17 21:16:51
Lauren Chen @thelaurenchen special for @rtintl
Sorry, Asians! I guess we’re too successful for progressives to consider us “diverse”...
Thomas Jefferson High in Fairfax County is one the best public schools in America, and incidentally, also had a 70% Asian student population as of last year. In order to “boost diversity,” however, the school board recently agreed to do away with its previous academic admissions test, and will now have students include metrics such as socioeconomic status in their applications.
It’s predicted that Asian enrollment will drop to 31% under the new policies, and understandably, many Asian families with hopeful students in the area are furious and taking legal action against the county.
When it comes to their discrimination against whites, progressives assert that giving preferential treatment to non-white people is merely balancing the scales due to all the historical and systemic “advantages” that white people receive. But what’s their justification for practices that are blatantly anti-Asian? Asians are an even smaller racial minority in America than either Hispanics or blacks, they’ve also been subjected to historical oppression (hello, Chinese Exclusion Act!), and many Asian immigrants come from impoverished countries. None of the weak arguments activists use in defence of their anti-white bigotry apply to Asians, and yet we’ve seen Asians repeatedly targeted by social justice activists because of their academic and financial success.
As the left continues its march toward fringe identity politics and redistributive policies, it’s likely they’ll continue to identify Asians as “oppressors,” rather than the preferable “oppressed.” Already, we’ve seen some organizations refuse to categorize Asians as People of Color, which must have come as a surprise for all the Asians out there who had to learn that they had, apparently, become caucasian overnight.
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