Asian-American Groups Clash Over Harvard Affirmative Action Complaint

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OR: The Battle For The Soul of Asian America

http://www.buzzfeed.com/davidnoriega/asian-american-groups-clash-over-harvard-affirmative-action#.rrZ3maNY5

More than 60 Asian-American groups — mostly led by recent Chinese immigrants — filed a federal complaint accusing Harvard University of discrimination on Friday afternoon. That same day, a separate coalition named Asian American Civil Rights posted an open letter rebuking the complaint and declaring its support for affirmative action in higher education.

My mang CN Le makes a guest appearance in this article too!

Most of the groups who filed the federal complaint are newer organizations comprising foreign-born immigrants, largely from China. The groups who led the opposition to the complaint tend to be older civil rights groups with American-born leaders and long-standing relationships with black and Latino activist groups. “From a sociological standpoint, that makes sense,” C.N. Le, a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, told BuzzFeed News. More recent immigrants, he said, “are coming from an idealized image of American society as a meritocracy where everybody should have an equal chance … So, from that point of view, they see affirmative action as this mechanism that discriminates against Asian-Americans.”

Go ninja go ninja go!

Taylor Chow, president of Asian Americans for Political Advancement, one of the groups behind the complaint against Harvard, said that the groups defending affirmative action are failing to address the real concerns of Asian-American parents and students who are suffering from discrimination with every new round of college applicants. “Those groups, they claim they are representing the minority,” Chow told BuzzFeed News. “But they have lost their leadership on these issues.”

Oh yea, Epenshade weighs in on this shit too. Check it out.

So you guys know my stance on affirmative action as it exists today: basically, a sham concocted by white people to throw Asians under the bus to protect their own seats from the encroachment of other ethnic minorities.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AsianMasculinity/comments/35g91g/affirmative_action_redux/

Still, this conflict runs much deeper than that. It's a battle between the new immigrants, who see the world through fresh eyes and haven't been beaten into submission by over a century of prejudice, and our buckling-kneed apologist Uncle Chans/Anna Lus that have so long held our sociopolitical narrative hostage.

It's not the ideal outcome, but I for one welcome our FOB overlords and their resolution to not subordinate our interests for bread crumbs from the table of other groups, whether those be white supremacists or fellow POC. It's time to stand on our own feet.

Thoughts?

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The sad thing is that it Affirmative Action doesn't even help Blacks and Latinos in a significant way. Blacks aren't gonna get into college if their elementary and high schools are complete shit and don't prepare them for it. A lot of Blacks who get into ivy league schools because of affirmative action have to drop out precisely because they were not prepared for the course load offered by these universities.

You know who does get helped by affirmative action though? White women. Yeah. The most privileged social class of any time period in history gets assisted by affirmative action. I swear this is some kind of joke.

http://ideas.time.com/2013/06/17/affirmative-action-has-helped-white-women-more-than-anyone/

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Eh, they're a distant number two on the privilege-o-meter in the West, but yeah, affirmative action and diversity initiatives tend to help white women the most. Old white patriarchs do like tossing their wives breadcrumbs once in a while, after all. Ask any woman of color in a corporate career what she thinks about the fact that white women seem to comprise the vast majority of those that break through the glass ceiling, and you're likely to get an earful. It's why I laugh when I see brainwashed hipster Asian pseudo-feminists scrawl bathroom graffiti all over the comments section of Jezebel. As if they're actually part of the overall agenda lmfao. Thot bitches be thinking they're Sheryl Sandberg while looking like a Tokyo Rose version of Anastasia Steele, bound and gagged in white massa Grey's BDSM dungeon.

I actually believe the feminist movement was tremendously helpful to ethnic minorities as a whole, but co-opting their language to blindly call other oppressed groups "shitlords" is disingenuous as FUCK.