Thread by @deonteleologist

"The left does not have an explanation for Asian American achievement from a critical race theory lens." The left also lacks an explanation of the pancreas from a critical race theory lens. Theories have specific purposes.

I just bought the e-book. Let's eat.🧵

Oh GOd. You'll never guess who authored the foreword. Rhymes with Shmimmy Momcepts.

According to @ConceptualJames, CRT accuses Asian Americans of being "model minorities," "white-adjacent," or just "white." And CRT alleges that Asians "push to succeed" bc of their anti-Blackness and desire to maintain their white (or yellow (Jesus, dude)) privilege

This is all bullshit, of course. And it's incredibly disrespectful to Asian critical race theorists, including founding members of the movement like @mari_matsuda.

James doesn't provide any examples or references for those claims, of course. That would require him to think hard.

Also, James not knowing how to write part 87,459: referring to participation in systemic racism as "Collusion in evil and oppression."

The American History Decider has logged on, folks.

He's also now logging off, without acknowledging the existence of @HPluckrose, his co-author who wrote the vast majority of the best-selling book he's taking credit for.

@HPluckrose I'm going to have a blast with Kenny as a writer. Preface, paragraph 1:

[M]any Asian Americans have developed professionally and ensconced themselves in lives of middle-class “stability,” despite looking and acting different from the average white guy. But how could this be?

Yes, Black Americans were enslaved, "forced to work in a colorized world" (?) and judged based on their skin color alone. But so were Asians, and this threatens the narrative.

The implication seems to be: Black people, figure it the fuck out.

According to Kenny, "preferential treatment, equity funding, and social currency" are acquired by disparaging the privileged.

Next, discussion of Harvard admissions. Less qualified White admits are only mentioned parenthetically, almost as if to say, "they're still victims"

Chapter 1: A Broken Meritocracy

Kenny spends a few pages introducing Thomas Jefferson HS, number one ranked in the nation, and how Asian American students now make up a large majority of the students admitted.

Kenny's killing it w/ his writing style. Floyd was murdered, but we'll let it slide.

This sparks the woke revolution, naturally.

Kenny references a study that found "poor and rich Asians alike study an average of thirteen hours per week, more than twice as much as the typical non-Hispanic white student." On this basis he argues many Asian cultural parenting styles are superior when it comes to education.

This is the funniest not intended to be funny paragraph I have ever read.

Given you are at a frat party, the probability that you will encounter a White girl rapping along to this specific Kanye West song is in fact equivalent to the odds of you hearing a Black man freestyling.

Okay, back to business. Time to talk about China.

No reference is given for the claim Mao killed 100 million of his own citizens. Wikipedia's figures: between 40 and 80 million.

Very strange to see Kenny getting this all wrong and have no citations. The Great Leap Forward was from 1958 to 1962, not 1955 to 1959.

Some Asian authors argue that there are ways in which Asians Americans are more similar to Whites than certain other racial minority groups.

Kenny is very worried about this: "In Left-speak, when a class is considered “privileged,” taking things from them is morally legitimate.

In a surprising twist, we are told that understanding this Leftist notion of privilege requires a brief detour into the work of John Rawls.

What ensues is a painfully pitiful attempt at Rawls exegesis.