Last week, the Supreme Court made some progressive heads explode when it said it would hear affirmative action cases against Harvard and the University of North Carolina. In case you missed it, and you probably did, just two weeks after he was inaugurated, President Joe Biden’s Justice Department quietly dropped a suit against Yale alleging discrimination against white and Asian applicants.
In light of the Supreme Court’s decision, Kimmy Yam wrote a piece for NBC News examining how it’s “dangerous” to frame affirmative action as anti-Asian bias. One scholar even said it’s an old page out of the white supremacy handbook.
The experts have spoken! Thank goodness they're not misinforming people like podcasts do. pic.twitter.com/aFUdUpjUrr
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) February 1, 2022
In case you really think that moving away from testing wouldn't harm the median Asian American applicant pic.twitter.com/wqKKTkijYn
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) February 1, 2022
Yam writes:
After the Supreme Court announced Monday that it will hear the affirmative action cases against Harvard and the University of North Carolina, experts are cautioning against the framing of race-conscious admissions as a form of anti-Asian hate — a tactic that’s been employed by conservatives.
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“They weaponize concerns about anti-Asian attacks and violence against other minorities,” said Janelle Wong, a professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. “This is an old tactic in white supremacy’s playbook and should not be allowed to succeed.”
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Wong called the framing misleading.
“This invocation of anti-Asian discrimination by conservative activists intentionally confuses tragic attacks and anti-Asian violence with the essential path to educational opportunity for groups that have been and continue to face major barriers,” she said.
What? Who’s conflating anti-Asian violence with affirmative action? And what’s this about “a tactic that’s been employed by conservatives”? What about San Francisco School Board Commissioner Alison Collins, who’s black, tweeting that Asian-American students “use white supremacist thinking to assimilate and ‘get ahead'”?
I am so glad we have experts to clear all this stuff up now.
I had no idea how confused I was on so many topics.
— Confused in the middle (@ConfusedMiddle) February 1, 2022
Really glad to hear that One Scholar also weighed in.
— Bogdan Dzakovic (@santi_cazorler) February 1, 2022
"experts" "one scholar" well I'm sold
— Roy Ben-Tzvi (@Roy_Bntz) February 1, 2022
One "scholar" said…….
— Troy Thompson-aka: Flip Phone (@TroyThompson23) February 1, 2022
What type of experts? Asian experts? Bias experts? Affirmative action experts? Experts on what is dangerous? I know one thing for sure, the media is full of framing experts.
— Mark Edward (@AprioriTruth) February 1, 2022
I’m guessing the scholar is in a discipline that ends in “studies.”
— Mark Edward (@AprioriTruth) February 1, 2022
Correct: American Studies.
"Experts"
"Scholar"Whenever the language is this vague its definitely a "[something] Studies" person
— Rational Thinker 69 (@Rationalist69) February 1, 2022
Experts in what exactly? They've performed clinical trials? Run various statistical models? Spent years reading, analyzing, & debating historical documents in various languages? Performed field trials? Uncovered previously unknown sites, ruins, remains?
— Convex Mirror (@Mr_Monad) February 1, 2022
So the Asian kids suing Harvard and UNC are exercising their white supremacy?
— tiredinrhodeisland (@tiredinri) February 1, 2022
Yes, and they can, because they’re “white adjacent.”
Did we mention that scholar Janelle Wong is a professor of the University of Maryland, which divided its freshman class into “white or Asian students” and “students of color, minus Asian?”
Thank god, Asians will sleep better knowing sacrificing their success stoped someone’s version of white supremacy
— Shane O'Brien (@njdevilz324) February 1, 2022
"A number of Republican members of Congress, anti-affirmative action groups and others have in recent months conflated the race-conscious policy with the anti-Asian racism and pandemic-fueled violence against Asians" – I've never heard this claim and the author provides no source
— RocketMan (@rationaljustice) February 1, 2022
A clever Asian ploy to get out of being considered
"white" by the nutty progressives and back to being seen as Asian and not white.— Vanessa Atalanta Wisedog (@Wisedog4) February 1, 2022
This fraud Kimmy Yam literally writes the same article over and over again.
— AltAzn 🇺🇸 (@Alt_Azn) February 1, 2022
It’s true. She also wrote the piece about how, despite viral videos, it was mostly whites attacking Asian Americans. And who was her go-to source for that piece? Why, Professor Janelle Wong, of course.
Related:
NBC News assures us that despite viral images, it’s mostly white people who are assaulting Asian Americans https://t.co/Z4utAdkAVJ
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 15, 2021
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