The US Department of Justice is backing a 2014 lawsuit against Harvard University by Asian-American applicants that claims the college unlawfully suppresses the number of Asians admitted. The lawsuit goes to trial in October.
Asian-Americans have been divided over affirmative action for decades, long before New York City's mayor proposed an admissions overhaul to admit more blacks and Latinos into elite city schools currently dominated by Asians. In the 1980s, Chinese-Americans criticized a San Francisco public schools policy that required Chinese students to score higher than others to get into competitive Lowell High School.
Time and again, Chinese-American students consistently delivered top academic scores, only to be denied admission to their dream school. Parents bemoaned what they saw as an unfair racial advantage given to black and Latino children while their own children were overlooked.
Fox News' Jesse Watters, who hosts a segment titled "Watters' World" on The O'Reilly Factor , went to New York's Chinatown a few days ago under the guise of asking Chinese-Americans what they thought of America's relationship with China . Instead, he spent four minutes referencing every Asian stereotype imaginable, using his platform to characterize the community as an out-of-touch joke, and diminishing their culture to the laziest of tropes .