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Re:Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination by kristianov on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @10:48PM (#30523418)
That they are Honorary Whites.
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Re:Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination by woodruffw on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @10:51PM (#30523434)
Nobody believes this, unless that's a particularly tortured way of describing the model minority[1] phenomenon.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_minority

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Re:Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination by bpodgursky on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @10:56PM (#30523472)
"White adjacent" is a real term used non-ironically by (at least some) progressives to describe Asians and some Middle Eastern groups.
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Re:Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination by lotsofpulp on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @11:02PM (#30523513)
I was recently informed that the term BIPOC is for every non white person except south and east and southeast Asians.

That one threw me for a loop.

Perhaps there should just be a word for descendants of people with lower socioeconomic status/power/opportunities.

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Re:Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination by syspec on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @11:07PM (#30523555)
Whoever told you that is an idiot, and the term biopic is also idiotic.

It basically means EVERYONE except white people - I think that does more harm that good

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Re:Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination by JohnWhigham on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @06:50AM (#30526274)
Perhaps there should just be a word for descendants of people with lower socioeconomic status/power/opportunities.

That'd be getting too close to the actual problem in society, we can't have that!

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Re:Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination by woodruffw on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @11:05PM (#30523541)
I've heard "White adjacent" before, including someone using it to describe me. I think that phrase, however you might feel about it, has a substantially different connotation than "Honorary White."
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Re:Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination by SyzygistSix on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @09:35AM (#30527744)
As stupid as the term seems the idea that they don't have the same problems that other minority communities currently have and enjoy the same degree of accomplishment and privilege (as much as I hate to use that word) as white people isn't entirely invalid.
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Re:Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination by ulucs on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @11:12PM (#30523600)
> Nobody believes this

Citation needed for that one.

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Re:Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination by rand85632 on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @11:26PM (#30523726)
Reverend Jessie Jackson counts Asians as being White
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Re:Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination by distantaidenn on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @12:36AM (#30524136)
What weight does Jessie Jackson's opinion hold? Believe it or not, he's often a target of jokes in Black America.
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