49% of asians voted Republican in 2014 as per exit polls. What we have seen recently is perhaps a transitory reaction to Drumpf.
In 2022, what percentage of asians do you see voting Republican? It could be high. Recent polls suggest that latinos are likely to be evenly split between Democrats and Republicans in 2022.
Chris, wanted to point out that what can be called "standardized testing" originated in China circa 2000 years ago. (I think Razib Khan has written about this history and maybe also Freddie De Boer.) Here is from wikipedia:
"The earliest evidence of standardized testing was in China, during the Han Dynasty,[5] where the imperial examinations covered the Six Arts which included music, archery, horsemanship, arithmetic, writing, and knowledge of the rituals and ceremonies of both public and private parts. These exams were used to select employees for the state bureaucracy. "
The constant hiding behind Asians to attack Affirmative Action is cowardly. The primary purposes of AA are (a) to benefit Blacks and Hispanics and (b) to hurt Whites. Asians get caught in the crossfire, since they (inconveniently) outperform Whites on tests/grades, but they're not the main target. You can tell because of how colleges have responded to these attacks in the past couple years: squeezing their White student percentage to the benefit of Asians and Hispanics. This will continue; if the only argument opponents of AA can come up with is "what about the Asians," the institutions that practice it (not just colleges, but virtually all major institutions) will just make an unprincipled exception for Asians and continue crapping all over Whites. (https://www.revolver.news/2022/06/colleges-are-ethnically-cleansing-americas-white-kulaks/)
tl;dr: White people are people too; you can and should oppose Affirmative Action because it's racist, discriminatory, and extremely harmful (that AA doctor will be doing surgery one day!), not just because it happens to hurt one non-White group, and you shouldn't twist and contort to find a way to blame it on Whites.
"In my more vindictive moments, part of me thinks Asian-Americans deserve this outcome for voting for Affirmative Action. No sympathy. Reap what you sew."
A very bad habit. I do the same thing when I think about people in California but is it fair to condemn a entire group of people who aren't even a monolithic group? You didn't even write asian-americans who vote Democrat just asian-americans. I mean compared to the african-american who are much more central to the Democrat voting bloc (even if they don't get much out of it).
The bigger issue I see is that there's really no pundit on the right for sane asian-americans to rally around. Even in the african-american population there are people like Candace Owens, Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder, etc. Do asian-americans have even one minor internet celebrity to point out these things? That's the biggest issue.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
49% of asians voted Republican in 2014 as per exit polls. What we have seen recently is perhaps a transitory reaction to Drumpf.
In 2022, what percentage of asians do you see voting Republican? It could be high. Recent polls suggest that latinos are likely to be evenly split between Democrats and Republicans in 2022.
Chris, wanted to point out that what can be called "standardized testing" originated in China circa 2000 years ago. (I think Razib Khan has written about this history and maybe also Freddie De Boer.) Here is from wikipedia:
"The earliest evidence of standardized testing was in China, during the Han Dynasty,[5] where the imperial examinations covered the Six Arts which included music, archery, horsemanship, arithmetic, writing, and knowledge of the rituals and ceremonies of both public and private parts. These exams were used to select employees for the state bureaucracy. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardized_test
Where are all these quotes from anonymous economists coming from?
Race suicide isn't good. The right way to criticize Harvard isn't who's not admitted (virtually noone is admitted), but who is.
Boo boo, I love seeing the elites and wannabe elites eating each other alive
The constant hiding behind Asians to attack Affirmative Action is cowardly. The primary purposes of AA are (a) to benefit Blacks and Hispanics and (b) to hurt Whites. Asians get caught in the crossfire, since they (inconveniently) outperform Whites on tests/grades, but they're not the main target. You can tell because of how colleges have responded to these attacks in the past couple years: squeezing their White student percentage to the benefit of Asians and Hispanics. This will continue; if the only argument opponents of AA can come up with is "what about the Asians," the institutions that practice it (not just colleges, but virtually all major institutions) will just make an unprincipled exception for Asians and continue crapping all over Whites. (https://www.revolver.news/2022/06/colleges-are-ethnically-cleansing-americas-white-kulaks/)
Likewise, this article spreads the myth that White women are the primary beneficiaries and spreaders of Affirmative Action, a way to somehow blame White people for the systematic discrimination against them (https://ideasanddata.wordpress.com/2022/05/25/white-women-and-affirmative-action/) (https://ideasanddata.wordpress.com/2020/06/03/american-racism-and-the-anti-white-left/). In reality, Blacks and Hispanics benefit from and support AA far more than White women do, and Asians mostly oppose it because they are directly harmed, not out of principle. Asians tend to be extremely "woke" as a group, probably as a result of educational polarization, and vote as you'd expect based on that. (https://twitter.com/TruueDiscipline/status/1487358044266643460) (https://twitter.com/TruueDiscipline/status/1494987751099232256)
tl;dr: White people are people too; you can and should oppose Affirmative Action because it's racist, discriminatory, and extremely harmful (that AA doctor will be doing surgery one day!), not just because it happens to hurt one non-White group, and you shouldn't twist and contort to find a way to blame it on Whites.
Chris, would you be willing to be interviewed by the Brown Pundits Podcast?:
https://www.brownpundits.com/
https://brownpundits.libsyn.com/
BTW, I just subscribed!
"In my more vindictive moments, part of me thinks Asian-Americans deserve this outcome for voting for Affirmative Action. No sympathy. Reap what you sew."
A very bad habit. I do the same thing when I think about people in California but is it fair to condemn a entire group of people who aren't even a monolithic group? You didn't even write asian-americans who vote Democrat just asian-americans. I mean compared to the african-american who are much more central to the Democrat voting bloc (even if they don't get much out of it).
The bigger issue I see is that there's really no pundit on the right for sane asian-americans to rally around. Even in the african-american population there are people like Candace Owens, Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder, etc. Do asian-americans have even one minor internet celebrity to point out these things? That's the biggest issue.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.