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Originally Posted by wittynickname
I think that a large part of the equation is that by and large, Asian-Americans are well educated in highly competitive fields, and thus they rarely turn to crime or substance abuse. That said, Indian-Americans are also Asian-Americans, and they face far more discrimination than would, say, a Chinese-American.
While black people are pretty much always victims of racism in this country, I think that other races face the heaviest racism in waves. Twenty years ago there wasn't as much vitriol against Latinos, because there wasn't the panic over illegal immigration that now exists. Americans of Middle-Eastern descent are currently facing intense racism because of fear of terrorism. When terrorism was kept in its bubble in the other hemisphere, Americans ignored it and people weren't as actively racist against people who might be from Pakistan/India/etc. Then 9/11 happened, and it gave a face to the fear, and people reacted with fear and hate.
Meanwhile, Asians are often given a pass on racism now, but in WW2 times, Japanese Americans were placed in internment camps, because white Americans were afraid after Pearl Harbor.
Hell, white people in America are sometimes racist if you're not the right kind of white, as in how they treated Irish immigrants in the past, etc.
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I think Asians have earned that pass. We try our best to assimilate. We didn't suddenly become well educated, we worked hard.
Perhaps I'm just cheerleading and I am wrong in thinking others an earn it too.
African-Americans have been suppressed forever and it's wrong. But I haven't heard Trump say disparaging things about them unless I'm mistaken.