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Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey

Ep 418 | An Inconvenience to Intersectionality: Asian-American Success | Guest: Kenny Xu

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey

Blaze Podcast Network

News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, News Commentary

4.619.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Today we're talking to Kenny Xu, author of "An Inconvenient Minority," about how the high rate of success among Asian Americans pokes holes in the Left's narrative about white supremacy in America. Xu points out the alarming decline in meritocracy in America, especially regarding college admissions, where institutional racism has returned in a bizarre way. --- Today's Sponsor: Annie's Kit Clubs has the Young Woodworkers Kit Club & the Creative Girls Club to help your kids develop actual skills, master real-world building or new crafting techniques while expressing their creativity. Go to AnniesKitClubs.com/ALLIE & save 75% off your first shipment! --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome to Relatable.

0:10.9

Today I am talking to author Kenizu.

0:14.4

He wrote a book called an inconvenient minority.

0:17.4

He is an Asian American and he talks about the success of Asian Americans and unfortunately

0:23.1

how they are being institutionally discriminated against, especially when it comes to college

0:28.8

admissions.

0:29.8

I mean his argument is basically that in the woke narrative of intersectionality, this

0:35.3

idea that white supremacy reigns supreme in the United States, Asian Americans are an

0:41.4

inconvenient wedge in that argument considering they have higher test scores, they have higher

0:47.4

graduation rates, they have higher median incomes than white Americans, they also have

0:52.4

higher family together to gather this rates and lower rates of crime and teen delinquency.

0:59.6

And so if it is true that white supremacy reigns in the United States, it is very hard

1:04.9

to account for why Asian Americans and even Asian immigrants, people who are not born

1:10.1

here, but become Americans in their lifetimes actually end up across a variety of categories

1:15.5

being on average more successful than white Americans.

1:19.2

And so we talk about that and some of the struggles that Asian Americans are facing because

1:24.0

of an assault against meritocracy, especially when it comes to academia.

1:28.0

So super interesting conversation that I'm excited for you guys to listen to without further

1:32.4

ado.

1:33.4

Here is Kenny Jew.

1:36.9

Kenny, thank you so much for joining us.

1:41.2

Can you tell everyone who may not know who you are and what you do?

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