Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...article, entitled "Why Asian Americans should oppose Proposition 187," is written by a full-time volunteer with the Californians United Against Proposition 187 campaign in San Francisco. Unbelievably, at the top of this newsletter AAA claims to be merely "distributing information" on Proposition...
...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...
Henry Der was typical. He is president of one of the most prominent Asian American lobbies, Chinese for Affirmative Action, and virtually admitted to me that his advocacy group shuns democratic principles...
...Many [Asian] immigrant families do not have the benefits of full knowledge of the civil rights movement," he said. "Most Asian immigrant families would ask for meritocratic standards. These families don't understand that selection has never been based on meritocratic standards...
...organization supports affirmative action despite his acknowledgement that many, perhaps most, Chinese immigrant families oppose it. Der thinks he knows what's best for Asian Americans in spite of themselves...