COVID-19 Made Stereotyping Of Asians Uncool – Mostly To Gain Political Traction

Only a few years ago, American colleges used a “secret sauce” of race in admissions that voided test scores and replaced those with arbitrary demographic selection. Due to such clear racism, and despite being a minority with less than 5 percent of the population, Asians were least likely to be admitted to elite colleges if the alternatives were a more-favored minority with lower scores or qualifications. Asians were even less likely to be admitted than white students.

Asian students with European-sounding last names were told to check White on the ethnicity box, so they could avoid the “race penalty” getting into Berkeley or NYU and when a lawsuit was finally filed, it won at the Supreme Court. But even that court case was brought by a white student. Asians were so jaded by chronic progressive intolerance against them, they had just accepted their plight.

Not so since 2020. Suddenly, progressives who once discriminated against them loved Asians, and all it took was President Trump being critical of the Chinese government’s cover-up and disinformation related to investigating the SARS-CoV-2 virus that erupted in Wuhan in 2019.

Denial of the potential for a lab leak has changed. Dr. Fauci, a government disease expert since the Reagan years (hated by the left then because he said that gay men not using condoms was the problem and therefore using better judgment was the solution) is appearing today before Congress to discuss his involvement in helping funding coronavirus studies in Wuhan and then discussing preventing any talk of China as a potential lab leak while even the New York Times has a piece wondering how evidence for an accidental lab leak was swept under the rug by career bureaucrats.

Career government employees are 90% Democrats in Washington, D.C.  so it looked strange that they were engaged in blatant obstructionism in an election year (1) but it wasn’t a huge shock. That it cost so many lives, and then they managed to blame Republicans for that, will…