[rczhang]

> Compared to slavery, the holocaust, having your land stolen away from you, and a fleeing refuge from war and poverty, these are small potatoes.

Fleeing refuge from war and poverty are literally the circumstances from which Chinese have arrived in the US for centuries (not to mention the more obvious groups like Vietnamese and Cambodian). Modern China has only been wealthy for a very short time, shorter than affirmative action policies in the US (I'm not trying to argue for or against AA, just want to point out the timeline).

Look, I'm not going to say Chinese suffered more during their great famine than Jews in the Holocaust. But I'm also not going to say the opposite. Everybody has suffered here, enough so that these events are burned into the consciousness of both groups. If you can only see the visual story of one of these, it's not because the other one doesn't exist, it's because you haven't sought it out.

[sfj]

You still don't get it, I'm not talking about myself, just how the public reacts. I don't think preferential treatment based on skin color is ever a good idea.