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This past June, the Supreme Court issued its decision

overturning affirmative action in college admissions.

And ever since then, something's been nagging at me that just won't quit.

It's got nothing to do with the course decision. This nagging

feeling that's bothering me has to do with how we in the media talked about one of

the groups at the heart of the case. It's about how we talked

about Asian American students. So whether in print, television, on social media, on the radio, including on this show, typically

the coverage would go something like this.

There'd be a headline, an introductory line, a couple of sentences about the legal background of the case, who was suing,

who was defending, then sound bites from various stakeholders in the case.

And when Asian American students were quoted, it'd likely be a sentence or two from one student who opposed affirmative action, maybe tied to the plaintiffs group.

And sometimes there'd be one student for affirmative action.

And then the story would move on.

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