> Filipinos do not have the same history in the USA as Black Americans. If there is an anti-Filipino bias then I’m all for correcting it. Are Filipinos disproportionately filling our prison system? Were their ancestors enslaved? Do they have social networks where nobody in their entire network has gone to college?
I thought we were talking about why racial quotas for Asian people were good, not some other topic.
Filipinos' ancestors were placed in human zoos in America in the 1900s. After the Japanese surrender in World War II, Americans continued bombing their villages. The US has bankrolled a dynasty of looters who have overseen the decline of the country in the postwar period and, recently, the slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent people flimsily accused of being affiliated with organized crime.
A lot of this is fairly typical of the US's treatment of any country where the US fought a war between World War II and the Vietnam War or any country where the US has had a preferred political party, so I don't have any particular argument for correcting injustices carried out by the US against Filipinos that does not also apply to a slight majority of South American countries. We do not currently have a program of racial quotas for South Americans though.
> Are you really trying to grapple with the problem here, or is it as simple to you as “we should never take steps to affirmatively correct past racial injustices”?
Perhaps it would help if you could reply to what I wrote, and not to what I did not write?
> Your deep concern with Jews being treated too well makes me suspect you aren’t arguing from a genuine place of concern about injustice, but carelessly lobbing white supremacist talking points.
Maybe you're thinking of some other comment you read elsewhere? I'm honestly not sure what to say. Maybe I could randomly impugn your motives as a proponent of the reinstatement of Japanese internment or whatever, if this is your preferred way to chat with people, and you are trying to show me how you would like to be treated.
To be clear, I am not concerned with Jews being treated too well. Jews seem to be treated appropriately now, as far as US college admissions go. They were treated unfairly in the past. We rightly see the way they were treated in the past as an injustice. Why do we not see it as an injustice when we apply the same rules to different minorities? That is the question I originally posed. So far you chose to reply to "It was wrong to do discriminate against Jews. Why is it right to discriminate against Filipinos?" by calling me a white supremacist.