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Are Asian-Americans Pawns in Affirmative Action Fight?

The American left’s response to the Justice Department condemning racial profiling against Asian-Americans and whites at Yale, is the typical check your white privilege and your a racist response:

The Justice Department’s latest accusation that Yale University discriminated against Asian American and white students is an attempt to pit marginalized students against each other, using Asian Americans as the conduit, experts say.

Several Asian American activists and scholars criticized the DOJ’s letter sent to the Ivy League institution on Thursday, in which the feds claimed the school “rejects scores of Asian American and white applicants each year based on their race, whom it otherwise would admit.” Critics say that in lumping white students with those of Asian descent, the administration is using Asian Americans as a pawn to dismantle affirmative action.

“This announcement is pure politics — a signal once again that the Trump administration will take extraordinary steps to protect white privilege and resort to unfounded racial attacks, right on the heels of Kamala Harris, a Black and Asian American woman, joining the top of the Democratic ticket,” Anurima Bhargava, who served as chief of the Educational Opportunities Section of the Civil Rights Division at DOJ during the Obama administration.

NBC News

You can read more at the link, but is there a more overused word than “racist” right now?

Yet despite all the discrimination Asian-Americans have faced in the past and even now by affirmative action policies in colleges, they have still been able to have by far the highest per capita household income of any race, even higher than whites.

The economic success Asian-Americans have had is why many are upset about being discriminated against at elite colleges because of their race.

Picture of the Day: Test Time In Korea

College entrance exam begins nationwide

Yuju, a member of girl group GFriend, poses with her test identification slip in front of Gwanak High School in Seoul’s Yeongdeungpo Ward on Nov. 12, 2015, before entering the school to sit for the state-administrated scholastic aptitude test. Some 630,000 students nationwide are taking the test to enter college in the spring semester that begins in March. (Yonhap)