Issues

Since 2020, anti-Asian violence and hate have skyrocketed. Most serious incidents happened in cities where violent crimes, homelessness, and mental illness are out of control: San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and other cities. Because of wrong focus by the America’s ruling class, the anti-Asian violence has not been effectively addressed

Key Facts:

• Due to defunding police and soft-on-crime policies, violent crimes in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, have skyrocketed since 2019. 
• Asians are increasingly robbed, pushed into subways, beaten, murdered by violent criminals, homeless, mental illness patients and even gangsters in these American cities. 
• Although anti-Asian hate crimes have been caught national attention, the violent crimes against Asians have not been addressed because of the Democrats’ attempt to dodge the root cause

Driven by the radical ideology of racial equity, the cancellation of standardized testing in college admissions is an assault on meritocracy, and it is widely used as a hidden tool to discriminate against Asian and other high-performing groups.

The radical left even labels standardized tests as “racist.”

Key Facts:

• In 1969, Bowdoin College in Maine became the first American college to make a standardized test optional in its admissions requirement. In 1985, proponents of racial equity formed FairTest to launch a nationwide movement of canceling a standardized test. 
• In 2019, 1,075, or 47%, of the nation’s 2,278 bachelor’s degree-granting institutions that had moved to test-optional admissions. 
• Taking advantage of George Floyd tragedy and COVID-19, the radical left accelerated their push for canceling standardized testing. In 2023, the colleges that made standardized testing optional have now ballooned to 1,839, or nearly 81%, of all colleges and universities. 85 colleges have become Test-free, refusing to consider standardized tests. 
• After totally canceling standardized testing, the University of California System’s Asian admission rate dropped by 11.4% from fall 2020 (35%) to fall 2022 (31%).

Besides higher education, the radical left have canceled the objective admission tests in America’s elite high schools, and made changes on many gifted/ magnet programs across the nation. 

Hardworking Asian and other Americans are increasingly victimized by such radical policies.

Key Facts:

• In New York City, the Democrats have made multiple attempts to “reform” its admissions test system of its elite specialized high schools, claiming “too many Asians”. 
• In the wake of the George Floyd tragedy, authorities in several of the nation’s elite high schools, including Boston Exam Schools, Lowell High School of San Francisco, and Thomas Jefferson High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, canceled the objective admissions tests, in order to achieve racial equity. 
• Starting in 2016, the school district of Montgomery County, Maryland, “reformed” its Gifted and Talented Programs. Since then, the Asian enrollment in these programs dropped dramatically, by 20% each year from 2016 to 2019.
• Driven by the racial equity ideology, New York, Washington, and other states followed the step and introduced policies to wash down gifted programs.

Asian Americans face several issues related to employment discrimination, including biases, stereotypes, and a war on merit that disadvantages Asian Americans who are often labeled as an “over-represented” minority in fields including technology, medicine, and science.

Key Facts:

• Asian Americans often face biases and stereotypes that may hinder their career progression. They are sometimes perceived as lacking leadership skills, being too passive, or being too focused on their technical abilities rather than on broader management skills. 
• The term ‘bamboo ceiling’ refers to the phenomenon whereby Asian Americans face barriers in advancing to higher levels of leadership within organizations. They may encounter limited opportunities for promotion and be overlooked for executive-level positions. 
• Being labeled as an overrepresented minority in science, technology and medicine, Asian Americans may face limitations in various DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) programs that aim to achieve skin-color diversity. 
• In 2015, the University of Louisville excluded whites and Asians from applying for an assistant professor position in its Physics Department. 
• In a lawsuit filed in 2018, YouTube is accused of discriminating against white and Asian males in its recruitment process.