U.S. Magistrate Judge Kenly Kato, nominated to a federal court in California, was asked about a 1995 book review in which she said neoconservative Asian Americans “internalize the dialogue of oppressors.”
Elizabeth Frantz / ReutersRepublican lawmakers grilled a Biden judicial pick on Tuesday, asking the Japanese American judge if affirmative action is akin to racial discrimination and bringing up a book review she wrote as a law student.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, asked Kato if she still believed that sentiment. The judge said she “had no idea what we were trying to convey.”The topic of the article was revived by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who prefaced his exchange with Kato by asking, “Is racial discrimination wrong?” Cruz said that Kato’s writing as a student conveyed that “to be sufficiently woke, an Asian American must support policies that discriminate against Asian Americans.” He
“They weaponize concerns about anti-Asian attacks and violence against other minorities,” Janelle Wong, a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, told NBC Asian America last month. “This is an old tactic in white supremacy’s playbook and should not be allowed to succeed.”
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