# Asian electorate drifts to the right

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 23, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asian-electorate-drifts-to-the-right/921340 "2020-09-23T19:46:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asian-electorate-drifts-to-the-right/921340/89 "2020-09-27T01:00:07Z")

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> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> These are not, actually, the “relevant tenets of critical race theory” by any means. It’s a complicated idea, and it doesn’t exactly have a hard and fast definition, but it’s not hard to find the basics behind it – read the Wikipedia article. [Critical race theory - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory)

I don’t know if it “complicated” or elusive because it’s fuzzy and undisciplined.

> [@ISiddiqui](#):
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> As a South Asian myself, CRT makes a whole lot of sense to me.

Can you explain asian CRT because when I studied crt, there was no such thing as asian crt and the crit race theorists were struggling to figure out what to make of a minority group that was doing better than whties in many ways.

And sure not all asians are alike and aggregating asians has problems but so does chopping us up into little groups. The more granular you get the more precise you get in what we are but the less solidarity you have in a group that already has very low political power.

Actaully I think CRT deserves its own thread.

> [@What is Critical Race Theory?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-critical-race-theory/921629):
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> When i discuss critical race theory, I feel like some people on this board are talking past one another. I think critical race theory started off as a fringe legal concept that turned it’s back on logic and traditional analysis in favor of anecdote (lived experiences) and storytelling (narratives) and has somehow metastasized into other areas to explain racial disparities that defied explanation using traditional analysis. It has some value in helping us explain some issues involving race but …

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