You're full of shit, Joe. Asians were definitely discriminated against, a special law was passed they couldn't become U.S. citizens.
Sigh. Limits on immigration, which we've had all through our history, really, is hardly up there with the Genocide of Native Americans, or the Enslavement of blacks followed by Jim Crow. It's just not the same thing, or anywhere near. Should also point out that MOST Asian Americans are second or third generation... they came in long after those limits were gone.
"Hey, how did you get past the Anti-Chinese Immigration Law in 1890?"
"Um, I'm Vietnamese and I came here in the 1980's!"
They weren’t slaves?
I think some Chinese folks working the railroads in the west would disagree.
Okay, that happened back in the 1870's... to a very small group who really didn't establish large communities because they only brought over men. Most of them went home after making their money and lived like kings.
You can’t be racist against them? Why not, they look different. You can pick an Asian out of a line up.
So why don’t they suffer the same downfalls as blacks? Why don’t hey have such negative stereotypes (that they earned and keep earning, I might add).
Well, to start off with, nobody ever crossed a street to avoid an Asian. We could start there. Nor do the police racially profile them. Nor where there massive laws passed to keep them in their place for hundreds of years.
Because they take responsibility for themselves and struggled and made it. They don’t keep acting like fucking losers, committing crimes, living like degenerates and blaming everybody else.
Hey, the Cleaner called, they said they can't get the soot out of your Klan Robes by the Cross Burning on Saturday... they do have some nice brown shirts for you, though.
You fall into the trap of the "Model Minority" here... Why can't you be more like them? Well, because we aren't them. Entirely different history, entirely different place in society.
The thing is, blacks were brought here in chains to be cheap labor. Asians were invited over here, but only if they were bringing skills with them. They had a leg up from pretty much the start.