>But first-generation Chinese Americans especially have been less committed to a particular party and have increasingly become concerned about crime and homelessness in American cities, which has punctured the sense of security they sought in the United States.
> More socially conservative than their American-born children, many Chinese immigrants have also been turned off by Democratic support for affirmative action because they believe it does not reward merit. Few see relevance in the fight for transgender rights. They have a sense that the Democratic Party is the defender of minority groups — just not their own.
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Rinse and repeat for Hispanics, Indians etc etc.
>Mr. Ly, the Rosemead mayor who has described himself as a “George W. Bush Republican,” said that Democrats could win back some Chinese Americans if they took the voters’ concerns more seriously. Too often, he suggested, Democrats have dismissed their perspectives as the product of misinformation or disinformation.
NYT is literally guilty of dismissing concerns as mis/disinformation in this article lmao
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It doesn’t help that a lot of Chinese Americans live in cities where the local Democrats are literally insane. Looking at you “temper tantrum” chesa boudin and that one school board lady who called Asians “house n-word”
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Have they, really?
>But first-generation Chinese Americans especially have been less committed to a particular party and have increasingly become concerned about crime and homelessness in American cities, which has punctured the sense of security they sought in the United States.
> More socially conservative than their American-born children, many Chinese immigrants have also been turned off by Democratic support for affirmative action because they believe it does not reward merit. Few see relevance in the fight for transgender rights. They have a sense that the Democratic Party is the defender of minority groups — just not their own.
/thread
Rinse and repeat for Hispanics, Indians etc etc.
>Mr. Ly, the Rosemead mayor who has described himself as a “George W. Bush Republican,” said that Democrats could win back some Chinese Americans if they took the voters’ concerns more seriously. Too often, he suggested, Democrats have dismissed their perspectives as the product of misinformation or disinformation.
NYT is literally guilty of dismissing concerns as mis/disinformation in this article lmao
It doesn’t help that a lot of Chinese Americans live in cities where the local Democrats are literally insane. Looking at you “temper tantrum” chesa boudin and that one school board lady who called Asians “house n-word”