They're not 'thrown under the bus'. They're part of society, and society is taking some measures for people who have been wrongly harmed.
If Asians are discriminated against for generations and are harmed by those effects, then they deserve the same justice at some measures to help right that.
Same for whites. Let me know when thay happens.
Funny thing is, you don't see asians whining much about this. Then again, the asians don't have the cultural history of treating blacks as inferiors making them feel the same sort of resentment against helping blacks. That give you any clue about the racism under the surface?
Asians have their own racist history - Japanese treatment of Chinese is a particular sore spot and there are others.
There's a stereotype of the tension between the Korean corner store owner in black neighborhoods resentful of each other, but you don't see the same affirmative action ideology fury, just as in the civil rights movement you saw white fury at any equality for blacks by the white racists who were 'everyday people'.
I wanted to find pictures I've seen of white protest mobs that look like 1950's sitcom white families, except the housewives' faces are twisted into hateful yelling in mobs.
I didn't find those, but let's use this one to make a point. Look at the people. This is a May, 1963 photo of protesters sitting at a 'white' lunch counter. There is a Native American professor sitting next to the two black women. A white mob formed to protest them, and as the professor noted, he was covered in blood, saying "A huge mob gathered, with open police support while the three of us sat there for three hours. I was attacked with fists, brass knuckles and the broken portions of glass sugar containers, and was burned with cigarettes. Im covered with blood and we were all covered by salt, sugar, mustard, and various other things."
Look at those people. Everday people - but filled with some fury.
That's racism. It's the same mentality that pervades the fury against affirmative action.
Can you relate to the whites in the photo? No? It's not really different, just 'different times' so the issue has shifted. Before this photo, lynchings were popular, same mentality.
You don't see Mexicans, Asians, etc. with this fury about 'black equality'.
Now, whites want to say 'they don't hate blacks, they are happy for them to do well. Why, our President is half-black.'
But that's not understanding the fury peculiar to American whites against blacks. Which helps explain why whites find excuses to oppose removing inequality.
When there was racism, southern whites often really thought they were 'doing blacks a favor', 'caring for them'. Not as surprising as it might sound, since the north wasn't some pro-equal rights culture - they hated blacks, wanting them to be 'second class', just opposing slavery, generally, making it more of a north-south issue than white-black to many whites, perhaps.
The excuses kept coming - for 60 years, the issue of equality was dealth with by 'separate but equal', which wan't equal. And on and on to today, with affirmative action being attacked with fury as 'reverse racism', demanding that blacks not get equal opportunity by cynically misusing the arguments against racism.
Do whites really want blacks to do equally well? I have to say they'd usually say yes but not necessarily accurately.
Funny enough, an organization that seems to have racism beat better than maybe any other seems like the military, where between the disproportionate number of blacks and the nature of the service, 'they all bleed green' or whatever, the camaraderie forced on people, that they seem to not have 'race issue' much at all. But society does not require any of those things of people - and whites still just make excuses to be ignorant about the issues of race and what will help right wrongs.
So where's the line? I posted previously - but there are legitimate arguments against 'reparations' as 'going too far', history has a lot of injustice.
Do we give Mexico back their land, to we give Native Americans back their land, etc.?
Do Mexican hispanics give Mexico back to the natives from before Spain invaded?
Times and history go on with people conquering, and there's a point where it makes no sense to change wrongs, where that would cause worse new wrongs.
Just being 'the descendants of people who were wronged' doesn't entitle people to any compensation for those wrongs.
But there's enough of a direct cause from past policy to blacks today that the goal of 'equality of opportunity to overcome past discrimination' is sometimes justified IMO.
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