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coolbeans said:

the-pi-guy said:

There are tons of issues that underprivileged groups face. 

They frequently get harassed when something goes wrong. Some examples on the Sony side, when Santa Monica delayed God of War Ragnarok, Alanah Pearce got a large brunt of harassment for it. Despite the fact that she is just a writer on the game. 

The TLOU actress for Abby got attacked for playing that character, as if Abby was the real person. Despite the fact that it wasn't her decision, she wasn't the director or writer. 

Not to mention, the other billion problems underprivileged face in all walks of life. Harassment for being in the wrong place. Not getting the benefit of the doubt that a white male would have had in the same situation. Fewer chances of advancement. Underrepresented and blamed. 

And no, it is not problematic to talk about it. 

People need to grow up and stop trying to feel victimized, every time someone complains about the challenges they face, and stop trying to make these issues about them. 

Alright.  Like I mentioned with Ryuu up above, we're opening up another can of worms so I'll try to not muddy the thread discussions after this.  I follow your anecdotal examples and I would say that my 1st reply isn't trying to erase history.  I feel like part of your comment is confusing my critique of overwrought language as though nothing bad happens to minorities ever.  Maybe I'm misreading that.

For this ironic part, I can only come to two conclusions for this list of tropes: ignorance or disregard of any counter-evidence.  Like I said before, despite the wretched conditions East Asian immigrants faced in America, that community (or collection of sub-communities) has gone on to be so successful that affirmative action had tamped down on their opportunities the most as a percentage.  Hell, I can't help but balk at your list when talking about countries like USA, which have had legal minority-exclusive privileges like affirmative action locked in for decades (until just recently).

I'll just leave it at that for now.  My PMs are open if you're interested to discuss this more broadly.

A lot of these things are complicated. 

There are a lot historical and cultural reasons why Asian Americans are "doing well". A lot of them live in large cities where cost of living is more expensive. So they make more, but it doesn't translate to a higher quality of living. 

A lot of it is intentional. The US intentionally had open policies to bring in successful Asians. 

And now they get used as a prop to bang against "lesser minorities". "If Asian Americans can be doing so well, why can't black and Native American groups do so too?"

These are still issues. Affirmative Action doesn't erase all of the injustices, it even created some. It arguably benefitted white women more than these other groups.  

Again, Asian Americans doing well doesn't erase these other issues. It's cherry picking a specific statistic and hand waving the other 100 issues.