Look, we can endlessly research, write about and remonstrate regarding this nonsense or we can give it the back of the hand it deserves. Because if it continues it will tear us apart. The backlash is already growing and, if not calmed, it will be ugly and violent. Let's not kid ourselves. Every Democrat in the House voted for the …
Look, we can endlessly research, write about and remonstrate regarding this nonsense or we can give it the back of the hand it deserves. Because if it continues it will tear us apart. The backlash is already growing and, if not calmed, it will be ugly and violent. Let's not kid ourselves. Every Democrat in the House voted for the comical Hakeem Jeffries; a radical who supports slave reparations. The notion that people who never owned or profited from slavery must be made to pay "reparations" to people who were never enslaved. This needs to stop. It is sheer idiocy and lunacy. There is nothing wrong with casting a wide net for talent, giving people a helping hand and treating everyone with dignity and respect. But there is everything wrong with demonizing the white race and elevating others based solely on their lack of "whiteness." And, when you tell me that my children and grandchildren must be made to suffer for "crimes" I did not commit, I will not take that kindly. Or lightly. Do so and I will regard you as my mortal enemy.
Anyone including Jeffries who supports reparations for the infamy of an institution which ended 158 years ago is making the mistake of looking at the current state of this country through a very narrow lens. A lens through a Critical Race Theory camera - as in slaves then but because of supposedly structured racism endorsed by Whites who remain silent (and thus guilty), Blacks suffer a form of slavery now.
On the surface it looks like quite the American thing to do - let's throw a bunch of money at something and then the whole thing will just either go away, or be fixed. How simple. And catastrophic.
What they don't account for is the resentment of a majority of Americans (white, latino and black alike) who would rightly view this as a giveaway to people undeserving of it. For how can they deserve it? Their present lives are not the lives of their forebears of generations earlier. It will be seen as a handout. And thereby making an issue infinitely worse - a solution causing a much larger problem.
Their answer to a 19th Century problem would result in a very 21st Century schism that will make the present progressive vs MAGA shit storm look like a softball game.
I agree. And DEI doesn’t elevate Asian people either, even though Asians are not white and have faced discrimination. But according to critical race theory, whites must always oppress non-whites. So now Asians are being called “white-adjacent”!
The same is happening to some Latinos too. It’s ridiculous: if you start to do well as a minority, you magically become “white”. It’s a very racist way to look at the world, the irony is that the DEI pushers are the real white supremacists for thinking that white people are so superior that they are always oppressors.
My wife, an Asian, has expressed her frustrations with DEI at her biz (at best, it is massive a waste of time). As she's noted, she is a person of color, when its convenient for others. When its not convenient for others, she's not a person of color. She's being used by others when it helps them, excluding by the same folks when it doesn't.
The one thing she KNOWS, these people don't care about her.
It is so insidious. So many DEI advocates are willing to use others when they can be used, as opposed to helping people actually achieve what they are capable of.
I agree. These leftist nut jobs have more in common with the alt right than we realize. Both center white culture in their arguments. And I think that powerful white "progressives" use DEI as a firewall to contain Asian American ascendence in our country.
100 years ago, elite institutions began setting quotas on how many Jews could attend. They later reversed course and apologized to Jewish Americans for doing so. Will Asians get our apology 50 years from now?
And yes, radical leftists sound just like neo-Nazi types. They both think white people are superhumans that can control everyone.
Did they really "reverse course" re the Jews? And now with the BDS insanity the universities are entering pogrom territory. I wouldn't hold my breath for an apology for Asian quotas, Peng. Worse, the working class Asians in the big cites will never get apologies - or more important, justice - for their kids being subjected to quotas barring their attendance at the most prestigious technical and science high schools. Boy does being "white adjacent" have its price!!!!
That’s why it’s working class Asians that fight the hardest to preserve merit and oppose the critical race theorists that claim Asians are oppressors.
But affluent woke Asians are the ones that get jobs in journalism, media, activism, academia, etc. and act like they can speak for all of us.
I’m not holding my breath for an apology anytime soon. I know even if the Supreme Court knocks down affirmative action next year, colleges will still find a way to discriminate based on race.
"White-adjacent." Would be funny if not so dangerously pathetic. When you catch these nitwits in a trap of their own making, they just make up new language terms to escape. Through the looking glass.........Remember the famous lines of Humpty Dumpty about words meaning exactly what he meant them to be? All totalitarians must first control language.
Look, we can endlessly research, write about and remonstrate regarding this nonsense or we can give it the back of the hand it deserves. Because if it continues it will tear us apart. The backlash is already growing and, if not calmed, it will be ugly and violent. Let's not kid ourselves. Every Democrat in the House voted for the comical Hakeem Jeffries; a radical who supports slave reparations. The notion that people who never owned or profited from slavery must be made to pay "reparations" to people who were never enslaved. This needs to stop. It is sheer idiocy and lunacy. There is nothing wrong with casting a wide net for talent, giving people a helping hand and treating everyone with dignity and respect. But there is everything wrong with demonizing the white race and elevating others based solely on their lack of "whiteness." And, when you tell me that my children and grandchildren must be made to suffer for "crimes" I did not commit, I will not take that kindly. Or lightly. Do so and I will regard you as my mortal enemy.
Agreed, Bruce.
Anyone including Jeffries who supports reparations for the infamy of an institution which ended 158 years ago is making the mistake of looking at the current state of this country through a very narrow lens. A lens through a Critical Race Theory camera - as in slaves then but because of supposedly structured racism endorsed by Whites who remain silent (and thus guilty), Blacks suffer a form of slavery now.
On the surface it looks like quite the American thing to do - let's throw a bunch of money at something and then the whole thing will just either go away, or be fixed. How simple. And catastrophic.
What they don't account for is the resentment of a majority of Americans (white, latino and black alike) who would rightly view this as a giveaway to people undeserving of it. For how can they deserve it? Their present lives are not the lives of their forebears of generations earlier. It will be seen as a handout. And thereby making an issue infinitely worse - a solution causing a much larger problem.
Their answer to a 19th Century problem would result in a very 21st Century schism that will make the present progressive vs MAGA shit storm look like a softball game.
I agree. And DEI doesn’t elevate Asian people either, even though Asians are not white and have faced discrimination. But according to critical race theory, whites must always oppress non-whites. So now Asians are being called “white-adjacent”!
The same is happening to some Latinos too. It’s ridiculous: if you start to do well as a minority, you magically become “white”. It’s a very racist way to look at the world, the irony is that the DEI pushers are the real white supremacists for thinking that white people are so superior that they are always oppressors.
My wife, an Asian, has expressed her frustrations with DEI at her biz (at best, it is massive a waste of time). As she's noted, she is a person of color, when its convenient for others. When its not convenient for others, she's not a person of color. She's being used by others when it helps them, excluding by the same folks when it doesn't.
The one thing she KNOWS, these people don't care about her.
It is so insidious. So many DEI advocates are willing to use others when they can be used, as opposed to helping people actually achieve what they are capable of.
This is a movement that will and is beginning to bite itself in the butt
The sooner the better
I agree. These leftist nut jobs have more in common with the alt right than we realize. Both center white culture in their arguments. And I think that powerful white "progressives" use DEI as a firewall to contain Asian American ascendence in our country.
100 years ago, elite institutions began setting quotas on how many Jews could attend. They later reversed course and apologized to Jewish Americans for doing so. Will Asians get our apology 50 years from now?
And yes, radical leftists sound just like neo-Nazi types. They both think white people are superhumans that can control everyone.
Jews are being run off campuses now, so I guess Asians shouldn't wait for apologies. Even in 50 years
Yes, Amy Chua has written about this. Her books are illuminating. She was almost run off campus for her views too.
Did they really "reverse course" re the Jews? And now with the BDS insanity the universities are entering pogrom territory. I wouldn't hold my breath for an apology for Asian quotas, Peng. Worse, the working class Asians in the big cites will never get apologies - or more important, justice - for their kids being subjected to quotas barring their attendance at the most prestigious technical and science high schools. Boy does being "white adjacent" have its price!!!!
That’s why it’s working class Asians that fight the hardest to preserve merit and oppose the critical race theorists that claim Asians are oppressors.
But affluent woke Asians are the ones that get jobs in journalism, media, activism, academia, etc. and act like they can speak for all of us.
I’m not holding my breath for an apology anytime soon. I know even if the Supreme Court knocks down affirmative action next year, colleges will still find a way to discriminate based on race.
"White-adjacent." Would be funny if not so dangerously pathetic. When you catch these nitwits in a trap of their own making, they just make up new language terms to escape. Through the looking glass.........Remember the famous lines of Humpty Dumpty about words meaning exactly what he meant them to be? All totalitarians must first control language.