we also need to discuss what a single syllable color-like handle for asian we can adopt so as to put an end to this label-based exclusion. it's a rhetorical refusal of cultural citizenship that has gone on for too long because yellow isn't p.c. so how about gold, honey, or peach?
on the flip side, liberals must konw that the best way to really annoy white supremacists is to only speak of them as being from a country of origin by naming them a Brit or German, Irish or Scot, like they love to do for more recent non-European immigrants.
but they won't. liberal race ideology is the one that is obsessed with the color wars. black white brown etc. and they hate asians who disprove their narrative so they haven't even assigned us a color word despite YEARS of criticism that others us wrongly as perpetual foreigners.
racism is real, but the liberal color word hierarchy of oppression and very anti-DEI treatment of specifically south asians and east asians (se asians ignored bc there aren't enough of em outperforming their kids in schools to matter) is what fueled desperate white nationalism.
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Can't wait for strategically minded liberals to apply en masse to USMA/USNA/USAFA to gather evidence to prove once for all the corruption in their admissions processes.
They're removing the "complication" of more women in service. Make 'em squirm by lavishing attn on admissions.
I would watch out for any moves on their part to make acceptance to the service academies a binding contract, like ED.
But get the word out to liberals to complete a maximum # of applications to the three major service academies as a matter of course to help prevent corruption.
They need to get rid of every single loophole uncovered by the SFFA lawsuit. These are public schools being managed exactly like the most corrupt private schools.
Make them understand clearly that the American people, not the bureaucrats who run them, own the service academies.
It's great news that the military has pinned physical fitness standards for enlistment, combat roles, and special forces to male excellence.
Must mean white male nationalist conservatives are now 100% behind pinning academic fitness standards for admissions to Asian excellence.
Not sure where to find disaggregations more recent than 2020, which they're presumably not releasing bc the differences btwn white and Asian performance is even higher, given that white performance dropped while Asian peformance rose for math post-pandemic.
It's worth noting how
the refusal since ~2015 to release cross-tabulated data for race/sex erases Asian female performance compared to same for white males and females.
AP data for same haven't been public since 2022. Doesn't pass the smell test at all.
was thinking about how the inuit look super siberian but then other indigenous don't and then read about the kelp highway hypothesis of the coastal migration theory.
Was learning more about Greenland and what Denmark did there to indigenous girls in the latter half of the 20th century to control population. Eeeeeeeep.
white nationalists need to tone down the exceptionalism in the context of the true length of human history, and, before claiming moral high ground, confront in detail the eugenics practices that western civilization fully practiced against indigenous populations not so long ago.
It's not enough to make citations from centuries or millennia ago. You must learn significant chunks of languages that are dead.
It's overwhelming if you don't have solid grounding in languages that are living. That's why the country must treat literacy like the lifeline it is.
What has people unmoored from both history and present reality is that discourse surrounding education sugarcoats the danger of illiteracy.
It treats basic bare bones literacy as *optional*, when it's *vital* to integrate the now with what's gone before to meet the future whole.
It's maddening that even for English, many have stopped teaching children cursive. That blocks them from feeling, absorbing, and processing like rightful cultural heirs as they encounter primary documents from the tiny blip that is American history (still a couple of centuries!).
any body of rhetoric that uses the phrase "model minority myth" isn't there to protect underperforming minorities though that is what it looks like on the surface.
it's there to suppress + delegitimatize all upward mobility by minorities *regardless of magnitude of achievements*
it is there and was made ubiquitous so relentlessly because asian upward social mobility is terrifying for the mediocre political class that'd like to maintain its position without doing the same amount of work.
so instead, they create castes, locking asians into bamboo cages.
they throw crumbs to minorities, who, despite outnumbering asians, continue to underperform relative to time spent in the country or allowances made on their behalf, using said minorities to spread the idea of the "model minority myth", downplaying pesky high-performing asians.
american media so sterilized that they see a woman who isn't there to entertain them and decide it is a crisis.
intelligent asian women make liberals so uncomfortable that they need to produce devoted antifan commentary complete with indian guests renouncing "model minorities".
as if all american asian excellence in women can be, and thus is, faked.
they can't deny the intelligence so then they gather like hyenas and piranhas to shred the choices.. to.. excel..
as if this doesn't set up asian women to always lose. lose if you lose, lose if you win.
the lack of appreciation for power dynamics is stunning.
what would they rather have? people who aren't model minorities in politics? is mediocrity in politics what we're starved for?
all excellence is model and minority. that's how it works. stop shitting on just asian stars.