Monday, February 9, 2015

Why are all South Asian American websites so Left?

Any thoughts? It's a consistent tendency that explicitly South Asian (de facto Indian) websites tend to have a Left inflection. This means that they're soaked in critical race theory assumptions, but also genuflect to broader Left liberal concerns and priorities (e.g., "black lives matter" or the boycott of Israel). My hypothesis is that it's a selection bias in the type of people who set up these websites, and read these websites. Though the average South Asian American is a liberal Democrat, they're not that political, and too busy to know much about "intersectionality." There are conservative South Asian Americans in the public intellectual space, but they are people like Avik Roy or Reihan Salam, whose focus is rarely on South Asians (though Reihan brings up his Bangladeshi background now and then).

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