re: #83 iossarian

I don’t know enough about Orange County and its Vietnamese and Hispanic populations to comment on that specific case, but I do think it’s worth pointing out that there is a difference between a white politician disparaging black people and a black politician disparaging white people, which is the different history of oppression of one group by another.

Of course, on one level the actions are the same. But, for me, in order for there to be equality of condemnation, there has to be social/economic equality first.

I would say it is to the credit of the Vietnamese that they got here with just about nothing, had all those hurdles of language and culture to navigate, and nevertheless managed to escape their original social/economic inferiority.

These Vietnamese have no history of oppressing anybody.