{"id":446679,"date":"2021-04-23T17:36:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T21:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=446679"},"modified":"2021-04-23T17:36:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T21:36:04","slug":"free-beacon-investigates-why-dont-democrats-want-asians-to-succeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/free-beacon-investigates-why-dont-democrats-want-asians-to-succeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Beacon Investigates: Why Don\u2019t Democrats Want Asians to Succeed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffree-beacon-investigates-why-dont-democrats-want-asians-to-succeed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=446679&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3507.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly approved legislation to boost law enforcement efforts to combat anti-Asian hate crimes. Prior to the bill&#8217;s passage, however, Democrats united to block an amendment designed to discourage universities from discriminating against Asian Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment, submitted by Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), would have prohibited federal funding for universities whose admissions practices are detrimental to qualified Asian-American students. It failed on a party-line vote of 49-48. Sens. Mike Lee (R., Utah), Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), and Tina Smith (D., Minn.) did not vote.<\/p>\n<p>The vote came on the heels of the Biden administration&#8217;s controversial <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/justice-dept-abandons-admissions-discrimination-lawsuit-against-yale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decision<\/a> to drop a Justice Department lawsuit, initiated under former president Donald Trump, alleging that Yale University&#8217;s application process was unlawfully biased against Asians. A coalition of Asian-American groups has urged President Joe Biden to reinstate the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, an Asian-American Democrat, Andrew Yang, has established himself as the frontrunner to win the New York City mayoral race in November. Yet for some reason, the Democratic establishment and its ideological cohorts in the mainstream media do not appear eager to see Yang succeed.<\/p>\n<p>An anti-Yang hit piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/22\/nyregion\/andrew-yang-gays-stonewall.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published<\/a> in the <em>New York Times<\/em>, for example, accused Yang of making insensitive comments during a meeting with LBGT activists.\u00a0&#8220;I genuinely do love you and your community,&#8221;\u00a0he said, insensitively. &#8220;You&#8217;re so human and beautiful. You make New York City special. I have no idea how we ever lose to the Republicans given that you all are frankly in, like, leadership roles all over the Democratic Party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Times<\/em> piece goes on to suggest that Yang has always been a problematic candidate, noting that his 2020 presidential campaign &#8220;has been\u00a0trailed by allegations\u00a0of a \u2018bro&#8217; culture&#8221; and &#8220;in one of his own books,\u00a0he admits to having named his pectoral muscles, Lex and Rex.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In reality, media outlets have consistently struggled to cover Yang&#8217;s political ambitions. MSNBC&#8217;s coverage of Yang&#8217;s primary campaign was <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/andrew-yang-erasure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">especially bad<\/a>. Yang accused the Democratic-aligned network of &#8220;trying to\u00a0suppress and minimize my campaign because there are certain other candidates that they might favor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During the primary, Yang was routinely omitted from MSNBC graphics depicting the latest poll results, even though he polled higher than white rivals such as\u00a0Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) and Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.).\u00a0When MSNBC did cover Yang, he was repeatedly misidentified. On one occasion, he was &#8220;John Yang.&#8221; On another, the network\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/5835752\/msnbc-andrew-yang-billionaire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appeared to mistake<\/a>\u00a0him for a Japanese billionaire. (Yang&#8217;s parents emigrated from Taiwan, and his net worth is estimated at between $1 million and $4 million.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\" readability=\"37.231213872832\">\n<p>Yang also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/06\/28\/politics\/andrew-yang-claims-nbc-debate-microphone-off\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a>\u00a0NBC of muting his microphone during a June 2019 primary debate, preventing him from speaking unless called upon.<\/p>\n<p>These concerning developments raise a number of troubling questions. For example: Why don&#8217;t Democrats want Asians to succeed?\u00a0A<em> Washington<\/em>\u00a0<em>Free Beacon<\/em> investigation was unable to find a satisfactory explanation.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Media Suddenly Concerned About Anti-Asian Bias After Erasing Andrew Yang from 2020 Primary\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kwfGOIO4yQk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly approved legislation to boost law enforcement efforts to combat anti-Asian hate crimes. 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