1/ THREAD on Asian identity politics and why its claims are bullshit. Recently with "stop Asian hate" on the left and claims that Asians are oppressed by AA and CRT, there appears to have been a rise in Asian identity politics in the USA
2/ I decided to look at some of the grievances of the Azn identity politics people by reading through the subreddit r/Aznidentity. This subreddit is more vitriolic than the mainstream, as shown below, but a lot of the claims are repeated by mainstream asian identity activists. 
3/ As @RichardHanania has noted, mainstream azn activism tends to skew very female, but this subreddit is a more aggressive masculine take on Asian activism. Heres a leftist slate article about it. slate.com/technology/202…
4/ Anyways, the asian activists complain endlessly about white racism, the truth is they have an in-group preference, while whites don't: ljzigerell.com/?p=9002
5/ Asian activists often complain about being bullied as kids, but Asians the are least likely to be bullied "Fewer Asian-American students (17 percent) reported being bullied at school than did any other ethnic groups." apa.org/pi/oema/resour…
6/ They complain about white male fetishization of Asian women, but white men mostly find white women most attractive. Asian women being more likely to date out is driven by Asian female preferences: web.archive.org/web/2010011805…
7/ Also many Asian activists complain that this supposed fetishization causes AW to be a unique risk of sexual violence, but AW appear to be least likely to be raped (7% vs 18% for white and 18% for black) endsexualviolence.org/where_we_stand…
8/ I remember in the aftermath of the Spa shootings a NYT article reluctantly admitted this after laying it on thick about fetishization, but I can't find the article.
9/ Also, theres this supposed statistic that the AZN identity people go apeshit over, that a third of rapes in Korea are due to white men, turns out the source is one anecdotal report for one rape crisis center in Seoul: gordsellar.com/2017/03/29/kat…
10/ We hear complaints about white supremacist violence against asians, but in 2018 there was more Asian on white violence than vice-versa (78,790 vs. 43,917) Though this data is estimated by survey.
11/ Also despite the stereotype of the white male mass shooter, (which the aznidentity people frequently throw around) Asians appear to be more likely to be mass shooters. crimeresearch.org/2018/11/the-ra…
12/ Here we can see a top post celebrating a mass shooter who killed whites, u/hirudin does a great job standing up to the "self-defense" bullshit in the comments. reddit.com/r/aznidentity/…
13/ Another claim often made is that Asians make less money than whites when controlling for education, as made by Tim Wise in this article: medium.com/our-human-fami…
14/ But this shouldn't be a surprise because at every level of education, Asians do worse than whites on objective measures of skills: ideasanddata.wordpress.com/2020/06/03/ame…
15/ Theres also the claim that Asians are uniquely harmed by affirmative action. It's probably somewhat true at the highest levels. But if you looked at admission to the top 200 colleges solely on test scores the Asian percentage would decrease slightly.
16/ @Sean__Last looks at a bunch of studies that try to quantify this and finds that some studies show AA harming Asians, particularly those looking at med school and some helping Asians particularly those looking at law school ideasanddata.wordpress.com/2020/06/03/ame…
17/ Also as @ScottMGreer points out many AA programs simply split between whites and non-whites and Asians obviously benefit from those.
18/ And many Asian activists use the same logic of AA in areas they don't excel. When they are overrepresented it is due to merit, but when they are underrepresented in management positions, or perform poorly on Harvards personality score it must be discrimination.
19/ Heres a prominent Asian activist whining that Asians are underrepresented at Facebook leadership roles, using the disparity=discrimination argument he claims to be against when discussing other minorities. quillette.com/2021/07/21/sil…
20/ There could be plenty of valid reasons that Asians are underrepresented in management. As @akarlin0 points out Asians are underrepresented in voluntary activities that seem to suggest high openness. unz.com/akarlin/salon-…
21/ There is a large population that is susceptible to these grievance narrative, most Asians think there is at least some discrimination against them, think whites are responsible, and think that their identity is very important to them.
22/ Already we have seen a retaliatory attempted rape for supposed anti-Asian crimes, asian-dawn.com/2021/04/11/in-…
23/ This thread is certainly not meant to demonize Asians, but I think that anti-white Asian identity politics is based on lies. They aren't the "model minority", they've used other minority grievance groups as a model.
24/ If you think Ive misrepresented anything, please correct, im perfectly willing to accept I might not be looking at the full context surrounding something.
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