Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of legacy status in admissions

Re:Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of lega... by rayiner on Thursday July 20, 2023 @07:23PM (#36808153)

I think we’re making a similar point, but I’d frame it slightly differently. For Asians, racialization is situational. Growing up, I rarely thought about race. Outside of dating and sports, physical differences never came up.

And now, Asians are racialized from both sides. And on the left, it’s this pernicious sort of racialization where we’re “people of color” when they’re trying to show how big their coalition is, but expected to “check our privilege” like white people and defer to the interests of black people and Latinos.

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Re:Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of lega... by abduhl on Thursday July 20, 2023 @07:45PM (#36808324)

I agree we are making a similar point. My original post had a long rant about Asians only being minorities when it benefits someone's argument (on the left or right) but I deleted it before posting. Suffice to say that there is a long history of marginalizing racism against Asians in America (recall that the Chinese Exclusion Act or some form of it was in effect until the World War 2) and the fight that the left has put up to try to excuse or hide the clear facts that affirmative action policies have (had?) an adverse impact on Asians is the latest example of that.

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