[seankimdesign]

Another day, another Asian gets the raw end of the stick.

"Pull yourself up by your bootstraps" they said. "Reach out and grab that American dream" they also said. So many of us listened and found a tiny slice of success in the academia despite being systematically opposed and ridiculed... and now what? We're somehow treated in the same vein as the 'oppressor' who have been enjoying their undue systematic advantage and our success must now be supressed?

We're still heavily underrepresented in Hollywood, most major sports leagues, the government, and practically most forms of leadership - yet we're finding ourselves constantly lumped in there as "whites and asians" when it's convenient for the narrative of racial inequality to construct a heart-wrenching story. Do people not see how backwards it all feels?

[tomp]

Just like you buy the propaganda that whites are “oppressors enjoying systemic advantages”, so do other people buy in the same propaganda but lump in Asians as well (i.e. “people doing better than me”).

[undefined1]

I'm genuinely curious why you're still pushing the oppressor narrative, given that you see how it's being used as a weapon to enforce equality of outcome? instead of equality of opportunity.

[ttt0]

People blamed white supremacy for the recent unprovoked attacks on asians by black perpetrators. Cognitive dissonance became really common on that side of the political spectrum.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-nationalism-isnt-american...

https://archive.md/sa3fA

[pc86]

Correction: Cognitive dissonance becomes really common at any political extreme.

[ttt0]

So it's unjust when it happens to asian kids, but it's fair game when it happens to white kids? That feels backwards, if you ask me.

[john_moscow]

Think deeper. The American dream died in 2008. We could have let the inefficient corrupt behemoths crash under their own weight and free the market for the next wave of companies. But instead we printed more money and bailed them out. Ans we keep doing it ever since [0]. It's not about Asian, Black, Russian, Jewish or whatever. It's that if you haven't bitten a large enough chunk of the pie before 2008, you are second class and are bound to working for those who had. And when people across the society get frustrated with their lives, the racial differences is the easiest thing to spot, so it metastasizes first.

U.S. is now as much "a land of opportunity" as Democratic Republic of Congo is "democratic" or People's Republic of Korea "people's".

[0] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m0, switch to the 25Y view