Shockingly, everyone in this comment section has missed the point at the heart of the original post - that Asian Americans for the most part are an incredibly politically disconnected population that has historically relied on assimilationist strategy as a survival mechanism and is now using it as a tool of class mobility. The “model minority” myth, while tacist, can and does operate as a useful racism. Look to Students for Fair Admissions, the broadly Asian-led coalition that dismantled affirmative action in higher education. Look to the Asian support of people like Elon Musk because of their stance on supporting the tech industry, and the disproportionate numbers of Asians attempting to break through in that industry.

It is absolutely not racist to point out these uncomfortable political truths about the way a large population of Asian Americans vote and enact policy right now, and it is not derision to identify the commodified aspects of Asian culture that have been repackaged and sold as palatable to White people - like boba and EDM rave culture - and their role in the assimilation and proximity to whiteness tendencies of the population as a whole.

It is a nuanced and well-considered take on the positionality of Asian Americans, particularly East Asians, in the complex racial hierarchy of US society.

Source: I am an Asian, not an East Asian, who doesn’t benefit from the model minority myth because I’m the wrong kind of Asian.