How progressive Bay Area educators justify their shocking bias against Asian-Americans

Anti-Asian bigotry has a long history in the Bay Area, from exploitation of Asian workers building railroads to the Chinese Exclusion Act and forced internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Sadly, the bigotry continues, now with discrimination against Asians in school admissions. Wencong Fa of the Pacific Legal Foundation explores in the Wall Street Journal.

A welcome discussion about anti-Asian rhetoric shouldn’t exempt progressive proponents of “equity” and racial balancing. Allison Collins, Vice President of the San Francisco Board of Education once accused Asian-Americans of using “white supremacist thinking to assimilate and get ahead” and called merit-based admissions at Lowell High School “racist” since the school was majority Asian-American.

These comments are not only hateful, but inaccurate. There is no inherent “problem” in a school having a majority Asian-American student boost. Not all disparities result from discrimination. Sometimes they merely reflect individual preferences. All Americans should aspire to make the nation one in which outcomes are determined by individual abilities, aspirations, and achievements. Educational institutions’ opposition to racial hatred is welcome. But it would be more credible if they didn’t engage in racial discrimination.

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