The Upside of Asian Criticism

                                               The Upside of  Asian Criticism

The kerfluffle over racism aimed against American Asians has left me strangely optimistic.  (This does not include the self-destructive international image of America as a cruel and bigoted state, an image that is being used by the Chinese in their propaganda war against the West in Asia. That is not optimistic.) But the animosity toward Asians is a different kettle of the usual muckraking stew.

Bigotry exists. People generalize from their own personal experiences to include the larger group that an individual experience does not represent. This is the essence of bad science: large generalities from small samples. But that is not happening with the Asian community. They are not being punished by their fellows because they are seen as a negative subset on the population curve, they are being attacked because their attackers are envious of their familial and economic success. Bigots usually look down upon their targets. In the Asian community, their attackers are looking up.

The Asian community is seen as successful in a competitive environment, successful where their opponents are not. That implies the recognition of success, of a hierarchy that the culture values and appreciates.  

So, while some small number of idiots are acting on their limited views, their victims, Freedom's success stories, are being supported by the Left. That's progress.