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Stuyvesant admitted 534 Asian students and only 3 Black students. Cue all the wrong conversations about affirmative action and model minorities.🤷🏿♂️
Or, consider this:
Being raided by ICE, is traumatic. An Asian student having a parent killed or falsely imprisoned, causes their grades suffer.
Imagine increasing the number of ICE agents in NYC, and telling them specifically to target Asian students, until the probability of being ICE raided and stopped by armed agents while innocent, was 2X greater for Asian school kids than Black ones.
This would be very racist and xenophobic.
Then add more ICE agents and tell them to target Asian students, until Asian students are 5X more likely to be raided at gunpoint than Black students.
Then add more agents.
Now Asian high school students are 10X more likely to be raided. Asian graduation rates across the city decrease.
Add more ICE agents. Tell them to go after Asian students even harder. Deploy ICE agents that hate Asian people inside middle schools.
Asian students are now 20X more likely to be stopped at gunpoint than Black students. 49% of all Asian New Yorkers are now detained behind bars before they turn 23.
Half.
And make that ICE detention on Rikers island, the most dangerous jail in America.
In a city of only 1.7 million Asian people, some years would have 600,000+ reported ICE raids on them at gunpoint, and more non-reported.
That much hate concentrated on that few people, is not conducive to academic performance.
Asian students would now have the worst academic performance in NYC.
Some Asian students would be lucky, and would not get ICE raided ever. But some Asian students would be ICE raided *hundreds of times*.
Think about how annoying it would be as an Asian parent or student, to hear people debate endlessly on if there should be affirmative action to correct *historic*🤡 injustice, when you are still being ICE raided on the way to school today.
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Instead of 534, there might only be 3 Asian students accepted to Stuyvesant. It would be less about focus on academics, and more about survivorship bias.
Imagine trying to explain to people that if we unwound the racist ICE raids, that there would be hundreds of Asian students admitted.
And yes, I'm talking about racist over-policing and pretrial detention of innocent Black students.
There are ~2 million Black people in NYC, and at the peak of "stop and frisk" there were 600,000+ stops by armed cops, over 85% of which targeted Black and Afro Latino New Yorkers.
In my dystopian example, if I said that you could increase Asian academic performance, decrease chronic absenteeism, and increase Asian college attendance, by removing the ICE agents we have posted in middle schools, it would make sense.
IRL, cops in middle schools, decrease Black graduation rates🤷🏿♂️
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