News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination by dahfizz on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @11:12PM (#30523599)
Okay, sure. In a perfect world we would have enough resources for everything. In the real world, affirmative action policies disadvantage asian people.

> Affirmative action makes the world a more just place.

The question you have been dancing around: why is it just to disadvantage Asians in favor of other minorities? What is the mainstream Progressive justification for discriminating against Asians?

Re:Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination by woodruffw on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @11:15PM (#30523625)
There is none, because there is no mainstream progressive position associated with discriminating against Asians. You can refer back to my original comment for why that is.

Edit: To be clear: what I'm claiming is that the "progressive" position is better associated with improving education overall. It's only through a particularly warped partisan lens does it become this ridiculous squabble over artificially scarce resources.

Re:Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination by gruez on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @11:54PM (#30523896)
>There is none, because there is no mainstream progressive position associated with discriminating against Asians.

Right, just as there's no political party/government whose position is runaway inflation. Yet, runaway inflation still happens, usually as a result of some sort of government policy. The fact that no one advocates for it directly is irrelevant. If you advocate for a policy, you're advocating for all of its effects, good or bad.