How come white folks are against affirmative action when asian folks aren’t complaining?

Question by DJ ICE: How come white folks are against affirmative action when asian folks aren’t complaining?
Affirmative action isn’t about creating advantage for blacks. It’s there to eliminate disadvantage. Blacks people need it. White and asian folks don’t need it because they’re not at disadvantage.
Answers and Views:

Answer by KoolKid B-UP
not only blacks, i’m looking forward to applying for colleges.

Answer by нσиєу.
Affirmative Action isn’t just for Black people. It’s for all minorities…women included.

Answer by Thius
I give a damn.With or without it.

Answer by OMG it’s a ninja!
White women are the primary beneficiaries

Answer by miss g!
i would have to disagree with you there.

affirmative action was created in an attempt to create diversity in the work place, which i am all for. However, i don’t think race should be a factor in getting highered. If your qualified, you should get the job, no matter your color.

and it’s not just for black people, it’s for any minority, including women.

Answer by Mõrenα Latina
Well i think there are so many misconceptions about Affirmative Action…it benefits all minorities which include women too…basically it benefits oppressed groups.

And white women have benefited the most from Affirmative Action.

Answer by I know what I want
Well, actually, Asians have the biggest discrimination in corporate america when it comes to skilled jobs. They have the highest qualifications out of college, yet, the lowest rate of employment (Asian men). Asian women are opposite, they are the most favored group among white men when it comes to employment and promotion (but we all know what they have to do to get those promotions).

That’s why we see sooooo many Asian men operating stores and small businesses. White men discriminate them by far the most.

They never complain about it because they accept racism as a reality and know the only way out is by independent efforts.

Asians also do not qualify as a minority which makes it hard for them when it comes to entry level jobs and financial aid.

Answer by neet
Asians benefit from Affirmative Action too. So do white women. White women are AA’s biggest beneficiaries.

Answer by Upper Class White Trash©
Not everybody’s born on a level playing field. You’ve got to help lift people up and give them a chance, and that’s what affirmative action does. And it’s not just about race; it’s also about sex/gender .
BUT they need to do away with it because in reality all it has helped is women and white women more so at that

Answer by Spuddy
I hear that white women are the biggest beneficiaries to affirmative action. I don’t know if this is true, but if it is, as a white woman, I find this highly offensive. I don’t need some government mandated pity party to get ahead in life. I do just fine on my own. And if some place does not want to hire me because I am a woman, then that is their loss, not mine. I wouldn’t want to work for such people anyway.

Affirmative action is legalized discrimination against white males. If discrimination is so bad, then why do we sanction it? Why do we stop discriminating against one group just to turn around and do it to another? I hear all this mumbo jumbo about how affirmative action is necessary to “level the playing field,” but exactly when and how do we decide that the playing field has been leveled? Who is the authority that will announce this? Whites, as a group, are now outearned in annual income in the US by Arabs, Asians, Muslims, and African immigrants. Affirmative action is indefinite discrimination against whites. Give me a convincing argument that says that affirmative action against whites will one day be rescinded because it has been decided by someone of some sort of authority, I suppose, that the “playing field has been leveled.” That’s a rhetorical command, by the way. Affirmative action against whites will not be rescinded, even when whites are a small and oppressed minority in the US, because that is the goal of affirmative action and most of its supporters: to oppress whites. Affirmative action supporters will not stop until whites are at the level of the Untouchables of India.

Answer by path less travelled
The Asian example is wholly different from other influential ethnic peoples of color in the United States for several reasons. As regards education, one reason is that the Asian study ethic shares a common aim to go beyond the tradition found in the United States school system of learning. That is, they study longer — beginning at the earliest age and continue throughout high school; going to their dedicated community evening schools once the private or public day classes end, and can be in night school till as late as 10pm, 6 days a week for their entirety of years K-12. They make their advantage by tradition [but which comes with a dark price]. But in any case, at completion they will have fulfilled the whole game of education, and carry precisely better than traditional American students.

Now, when their skills surpassed the Anglo students in the universities, new admissions requirements were instituted to afford Anglo students an upper hand — proven out in the University of California system, in particular at ‘Berkeley.

And so whether one wishes to concede the importance and need of an Affirmative Action or not, he will observe indeed that ‘some form’ of affirmative action is and was instituted and maintained on behalf of Anglo students as has occurred for others: anyone is subject to require assistance from like programs or laws or protocol in education, employment or anything that should be regarded as a civil right.

The differences in acumen of Asians from non-Asians, including Anglo Americans, have little to do with some innate superior intellectual ability but rather the sheer unadulterated persistent practice and emphasis on education peculiar to the Asian culture, which Americans are rather lax about in comparison; and just the Asian’s different history with respect to the conditions under which they entered the United States — the Asian had choices; the Native- and the African American did not but who were the vanguard who underwent the great hardships and made the greatest changes by which all benefited.

Fascinating it is, however, that Asians who are not born to the USA have parents who aspire their children to come to the USA to get educated, which the children prefer, partially to get away from what severities are or were put upon them in their native countries — their parents’ determinations are cause for neuroses and anxieties that are beyond the pale in most instances. Again, the advantage Asians bear does come with a high price in terms of their finally merging into the overall American culture — Asians have yet so much to learn, and with that will come sacrifices as many other ethnic American minorities have long known and endured for four centuries.

Answer by ziggy
i’m white and i dont look down on affirmative action. i have no problem with it. you are right. but it pisses whites off because it reduces their pristine priveleged-ness when you give privelege to others. it threatens superficial, bland, petty, vapid white dominance.

Answer by Goblinboy765
that’s a bit racist