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Why Asian Americans Shifted Right (Original Post) YoshidaYui Nov 22 OP
The next Asian Republicans give a shit about. czarjak Nov 23 #1
Yep endless summer Nov 23 #4
I dunno... Old Crow Nov 23 #2
The GOP seized the issue of identity politics mainer Nov 23 #3
Gender lines endless summer Nov 23 #5
I wonder if some of the right tilt comes from affirmative action. Lucky Luciano Nov 23 #6

czarjak

(12,530 posts)
1. The next Asian Republicans give a shit about.
Sat Nov 23, 2024, 12:24 AM
Nov 23

Will be the first Asian Republicans gives a shit about.

endless summer

(35 posts)
4. Yep
Sat Nov 23, 2024, 12:12 PM
Nov 23

1/2 Asian here, old enough to remember when Asians were targeted over COVID. Will never understand why members of a minority would vote for someone who ran an openly racist campaign. Guess they don’t realize they’re in line to be thrown under the bus.

Old Crow

(2,237 posts)
2. I dunno...
Sat Nov 23, 2024, 01:51 AM
Nov 23

I'm still shaking my head in disbelief over this election. I've seen so many different analyses and op-eds and theories. Bottom line, as best I can understand it, is this: Most Americans, from virtually every demographic, just don't care that much about democratic principles and the rule of law as most of us on DU. Their overriding concern is the cost of groceries and the interest they're paying on their credit card balances, both of which climbed sharply during the Biden presidency. That's pretty much the long and short of it. I'm not condoning those priorities, but simply acknowledging them.

mainer

(12,203 posts)
3. The GOP seized the issue of identity politics
Sat Nov 23, 2024, 09:05 AM
Nov 23

They beat us over the head with “Trans people are invading your bathrooms” and “they’re taking your rightful place in universities.” Asian Americans tend to be culturally conservative, and that tactic worked — on every segment of the electorate, not just Asians.

endless summer

(35 posts)
5. Gender lines
Sat Nov 23, 2024, 12:20 PM
Nov 23

Didn’t watch the entire video, as a half Asian it made me too mad. My understanding from an article I read after the election is that the vote was split by gender with most of the rightward movement coming from Asian males.

Lucky Luciano

(11,485 posts)
6. I wonder if some of the right tilt comes from affirmative action.
Sat Nov 23, 2024, 12:33 PM
Nov 23

There are a lot of Asian kids that are poor who crush it on competitive school entrance exams and come to dominate academically. For example, Stuyvesant HS in NYC is well over 50 percent Asian. A lot of people want to handicap Asians in the name of diversity…which makes sense if they were wealthy….but if they are not, it is just plain racist.

The Russians did this to Jews in their competitive entrance exams for college. For math, there were “coffin problems.” A coffin problem was a very creatively written problem that technically only required HS math skills, but also required extreme ingenuity to solve. Writing a coffin problem takes a lot of cleverness…great brain teasers. The coffin problems were only given to Jews to keep their admission numbers lower with the plausible deniability of discrimination because the solutions only required high school math to solve.

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