Asians Now Learn Just How Much Affirmative Action Helped Them

[JoeB131]

Indians are, because of the H1B Visa. Asians have the widest ethnic income and weath gap of all populations.

Why do you keep lying?

 

[Dragonlady]

I agree, in principle; this should end.

In reality- these places are only kept afloat by the legacies, donors, and staff. What would Harvard be without their clubby alumni who have an outsized role in government and business in this country?

And this is the point. If black kids were really set on a college degree, they could go to UIC like I did. UIC was specifically built for the inner city demographic. But yet today, only 9% of the enrollment at UIC is black.



Are you saying UIC isn't a quality education?

the IVY league is desirable because a degree from one of these places is a golden ticket.

So you're fine with a cozy old boys' network because where would be without them? Never question the need for white privilege, especially for the rich people.

Poor kids aren't set on a college degree because it's never going to happen for them. The USA and Turkey are the only two first world nations that spend more money on educating poor children than they spend on the children of the rich.

This is the kind of systemic biases that are built right into all your economic structures, that enable the wealthy to increase their wealth and privilege and pass it on from generation to generation, by freezing everyone else out.

 

[JoeB131]

So you're fine with a cozy old boys' network because where would be without them? Never question the need for white privilege, especially for the rich people.

I guess. I'm white. I would never have gotten into Harvard no matter how much privilege I had. I'm grateful for what I was able to achieve against the odds. Working class kid with dead parents who worked two minimum wage jobs to pay for college and got a military scholarship.

Poor kids aren't set on a college degree because it's never going to happen for them. The USA and Turkey are the only two first world nations that spend more money on educating poor children than they spend on the children of the rich.

But here's the thing. Most Asians off the boat won't have it happen for them, but they make damned sure it happens for their kids. They have strong families and put a strong emphasis on education.

This is the kind of systemic biases that are built right into all your economic structures, that enable the wealthy to increase their wealth and privilege and pass it on from generation to generation, by freezing everyone else out.

I guess. I frankly am annoyed that our leadership in this country is mostly made up of idiot elites like Trump and Biden. But that's the system we have.

So I go back to my point. If you can't get into Harvard, go to UIC and make a good life for yourself. Life isn't fair.

 

[Unkotare]

30% of all Ivy League placements go to Athletes, ...

Ivy League schools don't give athletic scholarships.

 

[IM2]

So we have an Asian speking to their experence and we see some whites here still trying to argue as if what they say is how things are.

 

[JoeB131]

So we have an Asian speking to their experence and we see some whites here still trying to argue as if what they say is how things are.

One sad ass CRT victim doesn't count for all Asians, bud. Sorry.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

No time like the present.

Let's see if it happens.

Same reason guys like IM2 love it, it gives them someone to blame.

For instance, the history books go on and on about slavery, but won't talk about the almost as bad treatment of white immigrants in the industrial north, then that's being kind of selective.

You are kidding, right? White immigrants suffered nowhere near what black folks in slavery suffered. That's why you don't want CRT taught.

 

[whitehall]

The post is nothing but a racist rant directed at Asians.

 

[JoeB131]

Let's see if it happens.


You are kidding, right? White immigrants suffered nowhere near what black folks in slavery suffered. That's why you don't want CRT taught.

They didn't?

 

[JoeB131]

The post is nothing but a racist rant directed at Asians.

IM2 whiny realizes that Asians are making him look bad.

 

[IM2]

The post is nothing but a racist rant directed at Asians.

Wrong. How about you racists stop thinking you can talk for Asians?

 

[IM2]

In the early years of immigration the poor Irish and blacks were thrown together, very much part of the same class competing for the same jobs. In the census of 1850, the term mulatto appears for the first time due primarily to inter-marriage between Irish and African Americans. The Irish were often referred to as Negroes turned inside out and Negroes as smoked Irish. A famous quip of the time attributed to a black man went something like this: “My master is a great tyrant, he treats me like a common Irishman.” Free blacks and Irish were viewed by the Nativists as related, somehow similar, performing the same tasks in society. It was felt that if amalgamation between the races was to happen, it would happen between Irish and blacks. But, ultimately, the Irish made the decision to embrace whiteness, thus becoming part of the system which dominated and oppressed blacks.

An article by a black writer in an 1860 edition of the Liberator explained how the Irish ultimately attained their objectives: “Fifteen or twenty years ago, a Catholic priest in Philadelphia said to the Irish people in that city, ‘You are all poor, and chiefly laborers, the blacks are poor laborers; many of the native whites are laborers; now, if you wish to succeed, you must do everything that they do, no matter how degrading, and do it for less than they can afford to do it for.’ The Irish adopted this plan; they lived on less than the Americans could live upon, and worked for less, and the result is, that nearly all the menial employments are monopolized by the Irish, who now get as good prices as anybody. There were other avenues open to American white men, and though they have suffered much, the chief support of the Irish has come from the places from which we have been crowded.”

Once the Irish secured themselves in those jobs, they made sure blacks were kept out. They realized that as long as they continued to work alongside blacks, they would be considered no different. Later, as Irish became prominent in the labor movement, African Americans were excluded from participation.

And so, we have the tragic story of how one oppressed “race,” Irish Catholics, learned how to collaborate in the oppression of another “race,” Africans in America, in order to secure their place in the white republic. Becoming white meant losing their greenness, i.e., their Irish cultural heritage and the legacy of oppression and discrimination back home.”
-Art McDonald, Ph.D., “How the Irish Became White”

How the Irish Became White

 

[drudge X]

Asians were a protected group because of AA. That's a fact.

Bs...Asians don't need AA as proven in colleges.

 

[drudge X]

The classic white racist divide and conquer strategy.

Lol... desperate to call Asians "whites" because they are more successful than the rest?

See, blacks allowed Democrats to tell them that without us, the Republicans will commit genocide against blacks. Wanna succeed, do something yourself rather than waiting for this worthless government to do something for you.

 

[IM2]

Bs...Asians don't need AA as proven in colleges.

Asians did need AA. Or they would never have been admitted. That's why the percentage of Asians admitted into Yale in this year after AA was ended.

 

[drudge X]

Wrong. How about you racists stop thinking you can talk for Asians?

Lol...you wrote in the opening post that whites buttered up Asians. That's completely wrong. If someone says Democrats buttered up blacks, you would scream racism. Asians don't need whites to hold their hands. Asians know what's successful and worthy instead of looking at the Westernized world through a nefarious lens as a disguise for white supremacy. If whites or any ethnic group came out with an idea, system, creation or invention that works and benefitting humanity, Asians don't scream white supremacy. Asians embraced the idea and trying to make the idea better.

 

[drudge X]

Asians did need AA. Or they would never have been admitted. That's why the percentage of Asians admitted into Yale in this year after AA was ended.

Are you serious? Do you know how many hours an average Asian spent on homework compare with other ethnic groups? Studying hard doesn't pay off is what you are saying it seems.

 

[80zephyr]

HAHAHAHAHA... Asians scored the highest because white supremacy boosted Asians but kept black and Hispanics down.

Not only that. but Nigerians are doing better than almost anyone. Why?

 

[whitehall]

Wrong. How about you racists stop thinking you can talk for Asians?

You can talk for Asians? What the hell does that mean? Why cant racist anarchist s realize that nobody has to talk for Asians because they are part of the American culture.

 

[IM2]

Lol... desperate to call Asians "whites" because they are more successful than the rest?

See, blacks allowed Democrats to tell them that without us, the Republicans will commit genocide against blacks. Wanna succeed, do something yourself rather than waiting for this worthless government to do something for you.

You don't even know what AA is dumb ass. Nobody is calling Asians white. Whites like you try using Asians as a racial wedge to keep division and animosity going between non whites. Do not be white telling somebody to stop waiting for the goverment. Becuse everything you have is because of the government.

If we wanna succeed, we create laws excluding whites for 188 years, take their property, make it illegal for them to read or get educated, then make them chattel for a minimum of 88 years. Because that how whites made it junior.