"Racial Balancing" Is Just A Fancy Way Of Saying "Racism" So It Sounds Like A Good Thing
In the WSJ, William McGurn writes of "Asian-Americans awakening to progressive plans to sacrifice their children in the name of equity and diversity." San Francisco is a major capital of this:
The school board scrapped merit-based admissions in favor of a lottery system at Lowell High School, crown jewel of the city's public system. The idea was to increase minority representation at the school.But as critics noted, Lowell was already 82% nonwhite. It's just that progressive math excludes Asian-Americans. Apparently it never occurs to the woke that the regular use of diversity to penalize Asian-American children for their hard work and achievement might itself be a form of systemic racism.
"The denial of equal rights to educational opportunity for Asian-American children by those claiming progressive values is particularly tragic in light of the recent pandemic of violence against Asian-Americans," says Lee Cheng, a co-founder and director of the Asian American Legal Foundation. "The street thugs and the educrats in San Francisco share many characteristics and prejudices. Both are racist. Some are just better dressed."
All three of the school-board members targeted for recall voted to drop merit from Lowell admissions. Ms. López, the president, also asserted that a merit-based system is inherently racist.
As for Ms. Collins, she has been too much even for her colleagues. She was stripped of her vice president title and committee assignments when tweets from 2016 emerged, one of which accused Asian-Americans of using "white supremacist thinking to assimilate and get ahead." Yet she remains on the board, which she is now suing for $87 million on grounds that she is the victim here.
In March, Harmeet Dhillon, a nationally prominent Indian-American attorney, sent a 14-page letter to the school board informing it that concerned alumni and Asian-Americans might sue over the Lowell decision. If so, they wouldn't be the first. Already filed are federal lawsuits in Fairfax, Va., and Boston over similar school-board decisions to toss merit in favor of racial balancing.
What all these moves have in common is that instead of lifting achievement and giving black and Latino parents more alternatives to help their children compete, the answer is simply to take seats from Asian-Americans and reassign them by race. All this is going on, moreover, as the Supreme Court is deciding whether to take a case alleging that Harvard is doing the same with its own admissions.
This school-board revolt is a reminder that even if the Supreme Court passes on the Harvard case, the issue won't go away. It will soon be back before the justices--maybe in one of these elite public high school cases.
"Asian-American bias is one of the last permitted bigotries in the United States," Ms. Dhillon says. "That needs to stop and it's up to the Supreme Court to do it."
Eliminate merit? I've got news for them: the rest of the world isn't going to do that.
It is funny that the Left is totally fine with 100% merit in sports and music even if 70% of football/basketball players are black (don't know the true % here just wild guess).
The fact is that inner city black boys especially have a culture of non-achievement, even bullying kids who study. In contrast, asian kids (including from India) study their butts off and don't spend all weekend hanging with their homies on the corner. Choices have consequences.
cc at July 28, 2021 9:21 AM
Asians are the new white people.
I R A Darth Aggie at July 28, 2021 11:17 AM
There IS institutional racism, and it's directed mostly at Asians. Literally. Institutions are literally saying they want less Asian people.
NicoleK at July 28, 2021 11:27 AM
So, the SF Board of Supervisors presses its anti Asian, pro ghetto black policies (gutting the school system, defining anything short of violent assault as a misdemeanor), and as a consequence the Asian exodus from the Bay Area accelerates.
The departing Asian/Americans take their incomes (and tax payments), Asian themed stores and businesses with them, removing them forever the deteriorating SF landscape, and leaving a empty wasteland.
Thus the SF death spiral gains even more momentum, until SF becomes a No-Go zone like Oakland, Richmond, most of Berkeley across the Bay, and not so far away Stockton until it reaches the point it can sink no further.
The last time I was in the Bay Area was over a decade ago, and I felt very un-safe, it is much worse now. I am glad I got out of California when I did, I am never going back.
Califugee at July 28, 2021 1:56 PM
Funny. I don't see this "Asian-American hate" in my limited circle out here in SC...
But, really? Is there a contest to see who's the biggest victim? Asians went to concentration camps for the duration of WW2. Blacks? Nope.
Asian units earned more awards than anybody else in WW2. Blacks? Did OK, and we all hear about the Tuskegee Airmen. Can you name the Asian unit(s)?
Somebody do something for real, please. Virtue signalling just isn't worthwhile.
Radwaste at July 28, 2021 4:40 PM
Second-generation Japanese-Americans (Nissei) made up the 442nd Regimental Combat Team the most decorated unit for its size in World War II. The RCT fought mostly in the Italian campaign and was credited with rescuing the 141st Battalion (the "Lost Battalion").
Japanese-American soldiers also fought in the 100th Infantry Regiment, a unit of the Hawaiian Army National Guard that was already fighting in Italy when the 442nd arrived. Japanese-Americans in Hawaii were not sent to concentration camps since they were integral to the island chain's economy and the anti-Asian sentiment rampant in California was not found in Hawaii.
Other Japanese-Americans served as interpreters for the Navy and the Army in the Pacific campaign.
Segregated African-American units in World War II included the 761st Tank Battalion, the 99th Pursuit Squadron (the original Tuskegee Airmen), the 332nd Fighter Group, and the Montford Point Marines.
The 761st was attached to Patton's Third Army and fought in the Battle of the Bulge as well as leading the breach of the Siegfried Line, Germany's last line of defense in the West.
The Montford Point Marines served in battles on Peleliu and Iwo Jima. Former NYC mayor, David Dinkins, was a Montford Point Marine.
More than 75% of the drivers of the Red Ball Express that kept Patton's rapidly advancing Third Army supplied between August and November 1944 were African-American.
All of the people in these units faced real and overt racism; none of this subtle "systemic" racism.
Conan the Grammarian at July 28, 2021 5:55 PM
“But, really? Is there a contest to see who's the biggest victim? Asians went to concentration camps for the duration of WW2.”
I know I’m banging my head against the wall here, but I really wish people would read more about these internment camps, and how they actually operated, who was in them, and why.
Most of the Japanese in the Camps in Colorado and Wyoming spent their time driving around the state in US government buses cheering on their boys basketball team which played all of the other local high school teams within driving distance.
Also recommended reading, the newspapers published in those camps in Japanese.
Compare and contrast them with the way both Japanese citizens, other Asians, and allied civilians and military, were treated by the Japanese military during the war. I think it is relevant. My mother knew many of the survivors of both the Japanese civilian camps, and many of the American military killed and captured on Corrigador.
Lots of good reading out there, that the Japanese government would like to see memory holed for all time.
This incident had a big impact on US government trust, and policies toward Japanese Issi and Nissi residing in the US during the War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau_incident
Isab at July 29, 2021 5:16 AM
There was quite a difference between the detention camps for Japanese-Americans in WWII, and the Nazi concentration camps - and for that matter, all the Soviet camps, whether "labor camps", "reeducation camps", or "POW camps", Japanese camps for POWs, enemy civilians, and political prisoners, and the German concentration camps and POW camps for Soviets. All of these had extremely high death rates, while few died in any of our camps. In contrast, in general British and American POWs in Germany were not starved, worked to death, or arbitrarily shot. The best conditions among the Axis were in the POW camps for British and American aviators; the Luftwaffe considered how many of their people were in British & American hands...
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The Niihau incident: One Japanese-American family on an isolated island helped a downed Japanese pilot. This help began before they knew the war had started, but continued after things became more clear - perhaps because the pilot was already in their home with the only gun on the island. And that was reason to relocate every person of Japanese descent on the west coast, natural-born American citizens included, and steal their property???
Meanwhile, hundreds of German-Americans did conspire to commit sabotage and espionage. The government didn't lock up the many millions of readily identifiable German-Americans, not even most of those who were not citizens, but only the few thousand for which there was reason for _individual_ suspicion.
markm at August 9, 2021 9:27 AM
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