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...AAA should own up to the fact that its political activism is undemocratic, top-down, generated and directed by the few who comprise the executive steering committee. The AAA steering committee decided unilaterally to organize a petition drive against Proposition...
There was no general meeting to deliberate and vote on whether AAA should be doing this. Nor did the AAA steering committee solicit the views of the general membership two years ago, when AAA publicly condemned Professor Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. '53, issued demands for an ethnic studies curriculum, and called for an official investigation into the role of "institutionalized racism" at Harvard...
...highhanded political vanguardism of Harvard's AAA is endemic to many other left-wing Asian American "spokespeople" and advocacy groups. This became clear to me two summers ago after I interviewed some of the most powerful Asian American "advocates" in our country...
...this compels us to question the legitimacy of undemocratic ethnic organizations. Such groups essentially presume to speak on behalf of unheard, unconsulted and involuntary members. This problem inheres in AAA's very name...
...have a very strong stake in preventing AAA from acting like Bolsheviks, presumptuously throwing its political weight around with no regard for my views...