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News: Senate votes 92-6 to

artappraiser — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 22:12:49 +0000

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News: Senate votes 92-6 to proceed to Mazie Hirono’s bill to respond to hate crimes against Asian Americans.

This is to begin debate. There isn’t agreement yet on the outcome and senators retain the power to filibuster the vote to end debate, which again requires 60 votes.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) April 14, 2021

An interesting strategy from McConnell not to filibuster the bill on the front end; to have a debate, push amendments (of which Republicans have many) and engage Democrats.

There is still a 60-vote hurdle to move to a final vote.

A test case of whether this leads to an outcome.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) April 14, 2021

The six Republicans who voted NO on beginning debate over Mazie Hirono's Asian American hate crimes bill:

Cotton
Cruz
Hawley
Marshall
Paul
Tuberville
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) April 14, 2021

A reminder than McConnell has an Asian-American wife...born in Taiwan, immigrated at age 8, did quite well at climbing the ladder. That said I am sure both of them know of personal hateful harassment, including by protesters at their home, so I really do wonder what their feelings are on "hate cirmes".

Republicans leverage

artappraiser — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 01:13:56 +0000

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Republicans leverage attention on anti-Asian hate incidents in bid to overturn affirmative action

By David Nakamura @ WashingtonPost.com, April 6, 2021 at 7:57 p.m. EDT

Amid increased public attention on anti-Asian hate incidents, some Republicans and conservative-leaning advocacy groups are seeking to leverage the debate to bolster their long-standing efforts to overturn affirmative action policies at elite universities and high schools.

GOP lawmakers have railed against the admissions criteria used by Ivy League schools, saying they discriminate against Asian American students. Influential pundits, including podcast host Ben Shapiro, have made similar arguments on social media, suggesting that Democrats and liberal groups have been duplicitous in their advocacy.

And on Tuesday, a new coalition of Asian American groups, based mostly on the West Coast, called on the Justice Department to reinstate a Trump administration lawsuit — which the Biden administration dropped in February — that had accused Yale University of discriminating against White and Asian American students in its admissions.

“We condemn anti-Asian hate, but we call for action not empty rhetoric. People who are appalled by the broader attacks on Asians should be equally outraged by Asian students being deprived of their fair chance at a college education based on their race,” said Linda Yang, director of Washington Asians for Equality, a group formed in 2018 to oppose affirmative action measures in Washington state.

Yang, a co-founder of the new coalition, told reporters on a conference call that she hopes President Biden “has the courage to officially acknowledge that anti-Asian racism existed before covid-19” and direct the Justice Department to reinstate the Yale case.

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“This is a cynical use of a moment of real pain to further an agenda that [a majority of] the Asian American community does not even support,” said Janelle Wong, a professor at the University of Maryland and co-founder of AAPI Data, a demographic and policy research operation that conducts polling among Asian American and Pacific Islanders.

Surveys from AAPI Data in 2012 and 2016 showed that a drop in support for affirmative action among Asian Americans was attributed largely to more negative views specifically among Chinese Americans. Support among other Asian American groups held roughly steady at about 73 percent, the survey found.

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The debate has coincided with an effort from Students for Fair Admissions, led by the conservative legal strategist Ed Blum, to convince the Supreme Court to hear their lawsuit challenging Harvard University’s consideration of race in its admissions process, which they said harms Asian American students in favor of Blacks and Latinos. A federal judge ruled in Harvard’s favor in 2019, and the Boston-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit upheld the ruling in November, saying the university’s consideration of race was not “impermissibly extensive” and was “meaningful” because it helped maintain diversity.

During a House judiciary subcommittee hearing in March on anti-Asian violence, four GOP lawmakers requested in a letter to the Democratic chairs that they invite Yale President Peter Salovey to testify

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Opinion: Anti-China is not anti-Asian

Opinion by Tenzin Dorjee April 6, 2021 at 5:50 p.m. EDT

Tenzin Dorjee is a senior researcher at Tibet Action Institute and a PhD candidate in the political science department at Columbia University.

The Atlanta-area spa shootings — in which a White gunman allegedly slaughtered eight people, including six Asian women — have propelled the subject of anti-Asian violence to the center of the national conversation. For first-generation Asian Americans such as myself, who never begrudged our collective invisibility so long as our personal security was assured, it is profoundly disorienting to see our identity thrust into prominence precisely at the moment that our sense of local safety has been shattered.

Although prejudice against Asian Americans has deep roots in the nation’s historical institutions of racial exclusion, the current explosion of hate crimes against people of Asian descent is a consequence of the pandemic’s heavy toll on American society and the presence of a fragmented and defenseless minority that is easy to scapegoat. Many have correctly pointed out that President Donald Trump’s bigoted language contributed to the surge in racial violence targeting Asians.

However, some commentators are arguing that the U.S. foreign policy establishment’s criticism of the Chinese government is to blame for the domestic problem of anti-Asian violence. This specious claim, which China’s state-run media quickly exploited, has been most prominently advanced in the mainstream Western media by distinguished novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen and political scientist Janelle Wong, who claim that “bipartisan political rhetoric about Asia” and successive administrations’ “critical takes” on China fuel anti-Asian violence. This narrative, which weaponizes Asian American vulnerability to shield Beijing from international criticism, is as dangerous as it is fraudulent.

First of all, let’s be clear that there is no bipartisan political rhetoric targeting Asia, a continent of nearly 50 nations. Conflating Asia with China is the geopolitical equivalent of assuming all Asians are Chinese, precisely the kind of racial lumping that the writers themselves sensibly caution against.

To be sure, criticism of the Chinese government by policymakers in Washington has escalated in recent years. But the overwhelming volume of the rhetoric targeting Beijing has been prompted not by abstract geopolitical competition but by tangible grievances [....]

No one that writes regularly

ocean-kat — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 02:27:15 +0000

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No one that writes regularly for the New York Times magazine is an unknown.

Cut the bubble shit

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 01:23:25 +0000

In reply to We see different things in

Cut the bubble shit (repetitive as fuck) - moderator PP

We see different things in

rmrd0000 — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 01:20:39 +0000

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We see different things in the video

You get to make your own definitions at dagblog

Out in real life, reforms are beginning

Qualified immunity laws are changing for the NYPD

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/nyregion/nyc-qualified-immunity-police-reform.html

While you make jokes, mental health workers are being considered for use in certain situations

You post about Thomas Chatterton Williams, an unknown

The 1619 Project will be produced by Hulu

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/1619-project-docuseries-to-debut-on-hulu

You are in a bubble

You should.and others like me

artappraiser — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 23:09:08 +0000

In reply to The opinion of a person who

You should (and others like me,) for your own good. You come off very racist. We happen to tolerate that on Dagblog but that's unusual on social media. The mixed race and multiculti population of the U.S. grows everyday and your ideology is poison to it, it's clear that it comes from some kind of old timey bubble you are stuck in.

I posted this on March 20 on another thread. It's a great example of the anti-tribal future and it's coming on your kind just as fast as it is coming on the Trump fans. You are in the same boat as they are!

When she started singing Selena https://t.co/mShMAIdvqx pic.twitter.com/gpkscwvfYO
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) March 20, 2021

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by Dr. Remi Adekoya, (Teaches

artappraiser — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 22:42:56 +0000

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by Dr. Remi Adekoya, (Teaches Politics @UniofYork. Author of Biracial Britain: A Different Way of Looking at Race http://cutt.ly/bkK68CA.; born of Nigerian and Polish parents, British citizen.)

Brilliant piece by @RemiAdekoya1, author of Biracial Britain on "the tyranny of racial groupthink." https://t.co/CWs7sKvPSF
— Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR) (@fairforall_org) April 2, 2021

"There's probably dozens that

EmmaZahn — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 22:39:06 +0000

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"There's probably dozens that may rise above the pack but having done that are virtually indistinguishable from each other. Something beyond pure merit and qualifications has to be considered. I don't have a problem if after the merits are looked at race is one thing considered among those final top applicants."

I'd suggest using sortition to select between qualified contestants with the caveat that any individual personality traits found to be useful to the position be included in the qualifications -- but not race nor ethnicity. If it is generally agreed that either of those need to be addressed then some other way of evening the odds should be devised. I'd suggest something if I knew anything much about gambling.

The opinion of a person who

rmrd0000 — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 21:25:30 +0000

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The opinion of a person who pukes when the subject of race is discussed

Again, I don't take you seriously

you keep saying "all white"

artappraiser — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 21:02:56 +0000

In reply to I read the article. I

you keep saying "all white" as if white people think of themselves as a tribe. MOST OF US DON'T! There all manner of whypipple, a gazillion ethnicities and cultural heritages, all along the political spectrum. You also do that with black people and every other color. I FIND THAT RACIST.

You'd do a lot better interacting with people if you dropped using white as a synonym for "Republican" or "Trump voter" and black as a synonym for Democratic or liberal. There are political terms for a lot of things you talk about, you don't have to use skin color, that's racist on its face.

You also often talk as if we don't know about preferences and privilege. Do you really think most of us with parents without money didn't check out every damn scholarship possibly available for those we share genetics with when applying for college? I.E., if your father was a Polish American veteran and diabetes runs in your mother's family, you qualify to apply!

edit to add: Really, you often accuse everyone else of being in a bubble, the way you write sometimes makes it sound like you've never met more than one white person in your life, it sounds like you are living in totally segregated community your whole life or we are aliens or something.