Crime Concerns Drove Asian Americans Away From New York Democrats.

[Cattledog]

One reason we lost house seats in NY.

Interviews with Asian American voters revealed that their discontent with the Democratic Party was, in many cases, deep-rooted and based on frustrations built over years. Many of them described becoming disillusioned with a party that they said had overlooked their support and veered too far to the left. They listed Democratic priorities related to education, criminal justice and illegal immigration as favoring other minority groups over Asian Americans, and blamed Democratic policies for a rise in certain crimes and for supporting safe injection sites.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/nyregion/asian-voters-republican-crime-nyc.html

[Lovie777]

1. And yet they helped the GQP who have hatred and violence towards them.....

And it will be the Democratic Party they will help them.

[live love laugh]

2. Such bullshit. The people who attacked them were GQP.

[Deep State Witch]

7. Not Necessarily

I have seen several news reports in the DC market where it's young black men attacking Asians.

[live love laugh]

9. Does that disqualify GQP influence?

[Tickle]

11. me to nt

[Jspur]

13. I have seen plenty of videos black people attacking Asians in the Bay Area

and New York city. It's been pretty much all over the country. The democrats have to acknowledge this is going on and not run away from it. The more they do the more they will get disdain from Asians. This also gets multiplied when Asians see Affirmative action preventing them or their kids getting into elite schools. I don't have a clear-cut answer for how to fix these problems, but they are now magnified.

[live love laugh]

15. So just because they're black they can't be GQP influenced?

[Mad_Machine76]

17. Citation Needed

as to how we're "running away from it"

[Sympthsical]

19. Your response is partly why they're pissed

You're dismissing problems and telling them what's up out of your useful political perspective.

People don't tend to like that sort of thing.

[Sympthsical]

3. AAPI hate gets talked around a lot

And the community is highly, highly aware of it.

If I repeated what my Democratic AAPI in-laws and friends say about how our side has handled anti-Asian hate crimes, my post would probably be hidden.

It's a problem.

[LexVegas]

4. Yep. We notice. nt

[BlueCheeseAgain]

5. Education is a big one too.

Many Asian Americans I know feel that colleges and elite high schools feel free to actively discriminate against them. They may agree that other minorities are underrepresented and should receive help, but they feel that the reforms always come at the expense of Asian Americans, and nobody ever cares.

The changes to the admissions systems at New York City's elite high schools hurt Asian American enrollment a lot. I wouldn't be surprised if that led to a change in voting patterns.

[JI7]

8. No, this is about the attacks against Asians which include some deaths

[Elessar Zappa]

10. But what do those attacks have to do with Democrats?

Why would we be blamed, it was Trump and the Republicans who ratcheted up the anti-Asian hatred during the pandemic.

[Mad_Machine76]

14. +1

"China Virus", "Kung Flu" Those were Republican-originated.

[JI7]

16. It's specially attacks by black people against Asians

and they feel democrats either don't condemn it as much or are not tough enough on crime as many of these people have criminal history.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

26. The snippet above does mention education, though.

They listed Democratic priorities related to education, criminal justice and illegal immigration as favoring other minority groups over Asian Americans

[Tickle]

12. There's a bit of an eruption

in Virginia with two or three counties withholding news of academic awards until it was too late to get scholarships and those who were affected by this were mostly Asians.

Here is a link https://www.yahoo.com/now/amid-probe-more-virginia-high-174654233.html


Author and journalist Asra Q. Nomani, whose own son was affected by the “years-long” practice at Thomas Jefferson, broke the news in a City Journal piece last month, noting that those most affected were Asian Americans.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

28. Yeah, the admissions changes at Thomas Jefferson got a lot of notice too.

Asian Americans made up over 70% of the student body before the proposed changes. Under the changes, Asian American enrollment fell from 73% to 54%; every other measured group increased their enrollment.

[Lovie777]

6. Oh I just noticed it's a NYT article ....

never mind.

[Takket]

18. did they miss the dozens of stories about Asians-Americans being beat in the streets by RW

terrorists?

[Sympthsical]

21. Are there a lot of those in Oakland?

Do you see the problem with your response?

[treestar]

20. So voting for Republicans will just increase it

similar to people so far left, they don't vote - let Republicans win, because that's how we will get progress. Dumb people exist everywhere.

[Sympthsical]

22. People don't support you if you don't support them

Human nature isn't a difficult thing to perceive.

We should be supporting the community more in what they've been dealing with, because we haven't been very good on it so far. Unless the attacker is a right-winger, it's see no evil hear no evil.

That has to change. If we're silent to violence - and a lot of us have been - are we not complicit?

[treestar]

24. why are we blamed for what Republicans do?

Can't please everybody. It's one group or another "punishing" the Democrats by shooting themselves in the foot. And not being part of it either. Be active in the party and make this known rather than sit back and say "they aren't doing enough for me."

[Sympthsical]

27. For what Republicans do?

Is that your argument?

Because if that's your argument, you're basically reading the article and saying, "Hold my beer. I can make the point for them."

[inthewind21]

23. Well

They got what they voted for. I'm sure McCarthy and the republicans will get right on their concerns. Let's see how they like the next few years.

[Cha]

25. The magats Are The VIOLINCE!

And, Fucking Traitors to the USA.

Please GET A GD CLUE.