Thread by @MsMelChen

The gulf between the Asian-American celebrity + Instagram activist class (most with fancy degrees) and working class immigrant Asians is HUGE.

At this point, the former’s interest in advancing its ideology & activism is antagonistic to the latter’s.

nytimes.com/2021/07/18/us/…

This tension between the progressive, utopian, luxury beliefs of an elite class is coming to a head with reality on the ground: crime is skyrocketing, as are homelessness, mental illness and drug overdose rates, and old vulnerable Asians are bearing the brunt.

The old trope

that a conservative is just a liberal mugged by reality seems to be highly reinforced by the political experiment that is San Francisco.

This article doesn’t even examine the other ways that progressive policies are red-pilling average Asian Americans - CRT in schools, the

upending of merit-based admissions in favor of racial quotas in service of “diversity,” the increasing acceptance of values that Asians hold dear as “white supremacy culture,” etc.

Of course, the activist class ignores this kind of systematic discrimination in favor of elite

pet causes like “representation in Hollywood” and “anti-Asian hate in the form of words like China virus.”

None of these issues will do anything to affect what working class Asians care about: safety, law and order, fairness in education, etc.

And lastly, note how quick leaders, activists and the media will immediately jump on “racial animus” and hate crime designation if the perpetrator was white (see Atlanta shooting case).

What we hesitate & defer judgement on, versus what we are quick to condemn as racial animus

does say a lot. Many in the larger Asian community - who don’t identify with the pan-ethnic label - are realizing that their leaders and activists are gaslighting them. The chatter in online forums/groups diverge wildly from media narratives.

Prepare for political consequences.