Thread by @tznkai

I really don't think "people only pretend to care about Asians when they are political useful" is the argument Team Conservative wants to raise here.

https://twitter.com/bethanyshondark/status/1373970771001929731

Yes, I am not only more worried about people who look like my kids getting murdered than my kids not getting into Harvard, I can't even use the same parts of my brain to think about those two problems.

https://twitter.com/BusinessmanLego/status/1373986107138969605?s=20

I was going to make a joke about shrugging off racially motivated murder to own the libs but it's actually less surprising when I put it that way.

Also, elite universities are a dumpster fire.

https://twitter.com/tznkai/status/1192141593194700800?s=20

Also, also, the people I have seen most exercised about the murders of Asian Americans are themselves Asian Americans, who are often pretty annoyed about the anti-Asian college admissions discrimination thing.

But I guess you can ignore that in favor of white-on-white discourse.

Like, there's some actual nuance here in that Asian-American is a pretty useless category, and the community is split among and within ethnic lines on how we feel about affirmative action while we're all upset about people out to murder people who look like us. Shocking I know.

And even as there is some intra-community disagreement about affirmative action I think there's pretty wide consensus that the specific reasons that elite universities make up to deny Asian applicants (leadership and personality) are offensive bullshit.

I don't have much to say about the murders because what is there to say? It's what it looks like, it's awful, and all that's left is posturing.

This.

https://twitter.com/PropterMalone/status/1374004351581163523?s=20