#winning

...is my middle name. No, seriously. Ask me why.

re/write:: thoughts on a. wallace & asian am response

miswritten:

callin you out on your bullshit.

[*i use the term ‘asian american’ here for convenience, not because i don’t have issues with how the term itself is constructed (exclusions of southeast asians, south asians, erasures of the differences and different positions of “asian” groups)].

  • i have not…

This is, by far, the most comprehensive and ideological (as opposed to, as the author notes, sexist and misogynistic; I use the term positively in this context) responses I’ve seen to the AW affair.

She brings up an interesting point - colleges used to enact Asian quotas, the state government enforces proposition 209, one can finish a degree at UCLA without taking a class about another culture, people of color are overrepresented in prison and underrepresented in schools, the country is absolutely ruthless towards immigrants, and this is what sets UCLA off and gets broadcast from Singapore to the UK?

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