Asian Americans flex their voting power in SF school board recall

[Hamartia Antidote]

What you expect from loser to say? You think this reply is gold? lol..

I'm sure the next thing they'll say is Asians don't understand anything about growing up in poverty and trying to better themselves...so their viewpoint is irrelevant.

Face it...you guys are being voted up as white lackeys. Welcome to the other side..get ready to be blamed for everything now.

 

[American Pakistani]

Honestly the democrats are getting out of control. They declare every hard working folk as "racist". Asian including South asian are soon falling into this list because in many parts of United States, Asian Americans are on the top of the ladder in income, education, jobs, even private homes.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

Yes, by Lopez. If you read the twitter post by Gabriela Lopez you can see yet another person pulling out the standard "white supremacy" excuse instead of acknowledging bad management.

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They're incompetent but that doesn't mean SF is going to vote for Republicans any time soon lmao.

Honestly the democrats are getting out of control. They declare every hard working folk as "racist". Asian including South asian are soon falling into this list because in many parts of United States, Asian Americans are on the top of the ladder in income, education, jobs, even private homes.

Only because Asians live in expensive cities and more Asians work. Asians are severely underrepresented among top 0.1% elite.

But yes lmao they need to stop labeling arresting of criminals caught in the act to be racism. They need to stop labeling low test grades to be racism. Crime doesn't have a race... right? And low academic performance doesn't have a race... right?

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Honestly the democrats are getting out of control. They declare every hard working folk as "racist". Asian including South asian are soon falling into this list because in many parts of United States, Asian Americans are on the top of the ladder in income, education, jobs, even private homes.

That apparently automatically makes people a lackey of "the man".

 

[Zsari]

Uh oh...Asians and especially the Chinese have apparently joined the "white supremacists".

Chinese Americans have always been social conservatives. Most were republican supporters before it when full on white supremacist. Chinese Americans simply do not subscribe to the neo-liberal agendas. The heart of the problem is the increasing rift in the US politics where both the left and right are drifting towards the edge rather than the center that leave Chinese Americans as the odd ball out.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Most were republican supporters before it when full on white supremacist.

So what year was that supposedly....

If the definition of white supremacist is calling liberal leaders "irresponsible city destroyers" then that has been railed on since the 1980's.

Edit: apparently late 90's the lines crossed

Seems Obama election started a reverse trend.

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

San Francisco school board members Alison Collins, left, Faauuga Moliga and Gabriela López

Asian Americans flex their voting power in San Francisco school board recall

The recall effort was largely driven by Asian American parents who were discontent with the board's delay in reopening schools.

www.axios.com

Asian Americans proved themselves to be a critical voting bloc this week as San Francisco overwhelmingly voted to remove three school board members from office.
Why it matters: The recall effort was largely driven by Asian American parents who were discontent with the board's delay in reopening schools, accused board members of unfairly prioritizing efforts to rename schools and were upset about plans to install a lottery admissions system at a prestigious local high school.

• The controversy spiraled further out of control after one board member's 2016 tweets resurfaced. Commissioner Alison Collins had used racist tropes to accuse Asian Americans of indulging in "white supremacist thinking" while discussing anti-Blackness in Asian communities.
• The comments led to an immediate backlash in the city, which experienced a 567% spike in anti-AAPI hate crimes last year.

How it happened: School board President Gabriela López, Vice President Faauuga Moliga and Collins were targeted by an aggressive recall campaign throughout 2021.

• Proponents of the recall courted voters through Mandarin and Cantonese ads, emphasized the board's role in changing admissions policies and amplified outrage over Collins' old tweets, according to KQED.
• Opponents accused the campaign of diverting time and money from more urgent concerns, such as the district's need to address a $125 million budget deficit and replace its retiring superintendent, AP reports.
• But the effort paid off on Tuesday as each board member drew over 70% of votes supporting their removal, per results tallied by the San Francisco Department of Elections.

Worth noting: The special election was the city's first recall in nearly four decades. The other four board members were not eligible because they had not yet finished a full year of their term.
What's next: Mayor London Breed, who praised the parents "who tirelessly organized and advocated" after the election, will appoint replacements to the board.
The big picture: Asian Americans make up roughly 34% of the San Francisco population.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1494341613593579522

‘You Have to Give Us Respect’: How Asian Americans Fueled the San Francisco Recall (Published 2022)

The landslide vote to remove three school board members cut across ethnicities and income levels. But Chinese American voters and volunteers were crucial to victory, organizers say.

www.nytimes.com

Uh oh...Asians and especially the Chinese have apparently joined the "white supremacists".

About time someone stood up to racism from blacks and black degeneracy..........

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

Chinese Americans have always been social conservatives. Most were republican supporters before it when full on white supremacist. Chinese Americans simply do not subscribe to the neo-liberal agendas. The heart of the problem is the increasing rift in the US politics where both the left and right are drifting towards the edge rather than the center that leave Chinese Americans as the odd ball out.

Asian Americans’ political preferences have flipped from red to blue

Asian Americans were engaged in an electoral realignment long before Kamala Harris was added to the 2020 Democratic ticket.

theconversation.com

Al Gore did it but also remember the shifting demographics between 1990 and today. Prior to 1990 a larger portion of Asian Americans were Vietnamese and Filipino who are known to be very conservative. Chinese are more liberal both socially and economically than they are.

 

[Zsari]

So what year was that supposedly....

If the definition of white supremacist is calling liberal leaders "irresponsible city destroyers" that has been railed on since the 1980's.

In the 80s Chinese Americans were for the majority Republican voters. I’ll say that the Obama and Trump years were where the Republicans move itself to the far right in order to galvanize its base.