Author: 'Asian Americans showed that critical race theory cannot be true'
By: Anuli Ononye (MSN)
Interesting rebuttal.................
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Kenny Xu, author and president of the advocacy group Color Us United, told Hill.TV that "Asian Americans showed that critical race theory cannot be true."
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In discussing differences between Asian American and Black education achievement rates in the United States, Xu said the experiences and historical disadvantages in both communities were "of similar magnitude."
"We always try to posit the worst victim narrative that we could, and you just did for Black Americans, but I could do the same for Asian Americans," said Xu, author of "An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack of Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy."
Video: Author: 'Asian Americans showed that critical race theory cannot be true' (The Hill)
He went on to say that racial discrimination in the United States is no longer an issue for Asian and Black Americans and that "we are not living in that history today."
"Asian success was kept and was discriminated against in this country, but we're living in an era where that is no longer really the case," said Xu. "And so you have to really focus on what cultural values are and how that forms the discourse. And Asian Americans prove that you really can advance and achieve the American Dream."
Xu is head of Color Us United, a group founded in 2021 with a mission of "advocating for a race-blind America." In blogs on the Color Us United website, Xu has advocated against observance of Juneteenth as a federal holiday and against ethnic studies curricula in California.
Xu's remarks to Hill.TV on critical race theory come as numerous GOP-led states have taken action against critical race theory. At least 21 states this year have proposed legislation banning critical race theory in public schools.
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Shooting holes into.........well just about everything today
Who said they weren't still going to teach about slavery? That is ridiculous to even say let alone put into a meme and post for all to see.
That's just the level of crazy their rationalizations on the topic get to.
Beyond bat-shit crazy level really. Which is on the edge of the known crazy universe.
Seriously, who doesn’t want to teach kids about slavery? Where does this nonsense come from?
By the way CRT isn’t for teaching kids about slavery.
And wanting to to express some sort of disgust with "whitey" is exactly the same racist bullshit. Just a different subjective POV.
That doesn’t make any more sense than claiming people don’t want to teach kids about slavery. Where are you getting these? StupidMemes.com?
The biggest problem with pop-culture CRT is that it only talks about privilege and disadvantage. There isn't anything in pop-culture CRT that addresses opportunity. Pop-culture CRT doesn't incorporate the values of the Protestant work ethic.
In real life people experience a mix of privilege and disadvantage. Everyone has privileges and everyone has disadvantages. Real life isn't either/or; real life is both. And because life is a mix of privilege and disadvantage, people can't do anything they want to do. It's not fair that someone wants to be a rock star but has no natural talent. That someone can either complain about that disadvantage and always be disadvantaged - or - can work to overcome that disadvantage.
LeBron James can teach anyone to play basketball. But LeBron James cannot teach anyone to be LeBron James.
Do the only relatively better experiences of Asian Americans, which have not been all that good regarding racism, cancel out the suffering African Americans enduring during hundreds of years of generational human bondage, Jim Crow, legal segregation, institutional racial discrimination?
Get The Fuck Outta Here!
It’s pretty amusing to think that white people engaged in some gigantic conspiracy to rig the system on the basis of race so that Asians would have the highest income of any ethnic group.