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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1410372)	7/14/2023 6:08:17 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573928

"There is no such thing as pro-Asian affirmative action." That might explain why AA's were witnesses in favor of keeping it, and none were witnesses against it....or not. Harvard Senior Who Testified at Admissions Trial Says Many Asian-American Students Support Affirmative Action (chronicle.com) By Nell Gluckman OCTOBER 29, 2018 PAT GREENHOUSE, THE BOSTON GLOBE VIA GETTY IMAGES About 200 students, alumni, and employees of Harvard U. gathered in Harvard Square on October 14, 2018, as a lawsuit challenging the university’s use of race in admissions was about to open in federal court in Boston. Eight Harvard students and alumni testified on Monday in support of affirmative action in the trial challenging their college’s race-conscious admissions policy. These are the only students the judge will hear from; the anti-affirmative-action group that sued Harvard College as discriminating against Asian-American applicants will not call any of its members to the stand. One of the students, a senior named Thang Q. Diep, has already been mentioned several times in the trial. Diep immigrated from Vietnam to the San Fernando Valley, in California, when he was 8. He didn’t earn a perfect score on the SAT, but he graduated from Cleveland High School at the top of his class and wrote movingly about his chronicle.com -- "I guarantee you that "woke" culture is more of a "white liberal" thing than anything else." Woke is a Black creation. Woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) meaning "alert to racial prejudice and discrimination". Beginning in the 2010s, it came to encompass a broader awareness of social inequalities such as sexism. en.wikipedia.org.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1410372)	7/14/2023 7:07:03 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573928

The Chinese Exclusion Act is history but ancient? The law remained in force until the passage of the Magnuson Act in 1943, which repealed the exclusion and allowed 105 Chinese immigrants to enter the United States each year. Chinese immigration later increased with the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which abolished direct racial barriers, and later by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which abolished the National Origins Formula. [5]

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1410372)	7/15/2023 3:10:53 AM
From: Doren	Respond to of 1573928

> pro-Asian affirmative action My perception is that Asians have a strong intellectual work ethic, and thus are very successful gaining admissions. Affirmative action discriminates against them. Harvard revealed that 29.9% of admitted applicants are Asian American. Harvard admits record number of Asian American students while Black and Latino admissions drop I think we should end affirmative action AND legacy... I believe I benefited from both, but it just ain't fair. A better solution would be to end property tax based financing to finance all grammar/high schools equally per pupil. I think property tax based financing is the last bastion of government based blatant racism. Better to treat the underlying disease than to treat the results. My white liberal friends in the suburbs love property tax based financing. Because their kids benefit.