Erin's just doing this because she actually loves seeing her name mentioned somewhere; it means she's "relevant". So of course she has to write up an article where she is at the center of it - again. Although she never did get to our actual criticisms and address them- which is par for the course for someone like her. For example, with many on this list including Asian congressmen, one important failing is refusing to stand for fair admissions for Asians applying to college. This topic matters not just in an of itself but it is also representative of the notion that Asians in America should be allowed to go as far as their abilities take them; on this score, we are stopped prematurely by white society in numerous ways such as artificial ceilings in the workplace org chart. Yet CAPAC and others oppose this.

So when she says "Just looking at their reasons for validating those on the list is that they are too “progressive”, “left wing”, support BLM and supporting Muslim causes. The thing is we need to be this way in order to further the cause. ", clearly she doesn't realize what we're saying is that Asian "activist" orgs end up supporting these other groups at our expense. We support Affirmative Action for blacks, hispanics while allowing the same admissions team to DENY admissions for Asians based on questionable grounds- even in many cases giving our rightful admission to whites on shaky grounds (where subconscious bias of the admissions team leads them to believe that playing an instrument for an Asian is "predictable" and participation in extracurriculars is simply "padding" one's application. They often refuse to believe someone with the last name Chang or Gupta could be well-rounded; yet which Asian activist prosecutes this bias?) .

It's the same thing for throwing Liang under the bus; happy to placate other minority groups, and slow...very slow to defend other Asians- for fear of being "ethnocentric" and garnering the contempt of the Progressive Coalition for not "complying". They put themselves (and their feelings) above the needs of the community. They are doormats. And they refuse to understand how they are routinely selling out the interests of the community they CLAIM to represent in exchange for plaudits and approval of that coalition- which seems to ask everything from Asians and grant little if anything back. They are suckers, they don't know how to negotiate, and they have no spine.

She doesn't even address the criticism of /u/shadowsweep that the site she writes for has routinely let whites write for it- and they've written critical things about Asians and objectified Asian women. And used the cover of a "pro-Asian" site in doing it. Which leads me to my next point......

The biggest fear we have is that Asians "in charge" don't know what they're doing. They don't realize how they've been USED by different groups for their purpose, how whites leverage certain themes opportunistically in subtle ways against us such as feminism (which they use to compel AFs' to label AM's as misogynistic but NOT white men as misgoynistic; even though the latter commits higher rates of rape, gender violence, etc.). Being exceedingly myopic, the only Hollywood abuse they seem to call out is "whitewashing" - and miss 95% of what Hollywood is actually doing in driving prescriptive stereotypes. Despite wearing these blinders, she knocks Kulture- and plays the AM vs. AF card as a reason to shun it; of course without citing examples because she doesn't have a leg to stand on in claiming Kulture is sexist. This is the mark of a useless activist- fomenting AF-AM tension, and ignoring/critiquing actual productive work.

It's time Erin realized; just calling yourself an "activist" doesn't make you one. You have to actually accomplish something; and that something has to benefit Asians, not whites, Muslims, or anyone else. Erin herself has done little except foster division between AM and AF; the Asian community would be better off if people like her were simply to be idle. Those in lockstep with whatever passes for "activism" in the Asian community have zero ability to introspect or be self-critical; her article demonstrates that clearly. What remains is for a new set of actual activists who unapologetically stand up for Asians to step up.