Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forum"I am Asian . . .
. . . so I know a lot of doctors."
Andrew Yang just said that in a debate. Whoa.
I also happen to know a lot of doctors. I wouldn't say, "I'm white so I know a lot of doctors."
And what would it say about me if I did?
Link to tweet
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
we can do it
(12,118 posts)First a bribe.....
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
babylonsister
(170,963 posts)they were lucky enough to have insurance.
He's obviously not a politician.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
mathematic
(1,430 posts)The line didn't land so it made it seem like he meant it seriously. It's strange and attention grabbing, which is what the Yang campaign is going for apparently.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)and it didn't seem that way to me.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
mathematic
(1,430 posts)It's along the lines of "I'm the opposite of Trump, an 'Asian man who likes math'", which he said in the last debate.
If you want an answer that refers to something concrete, you can see that he begins to crack a smile as he continues his response about doctors.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Hekate
(90,202 posts)Just to give it a little perspective.
Take an immigrant population that values education as the way to get ahead and knows how to push their kids to succeed in school, and in a generation or a generation and a half, you end up with doctors, engineers, and teachers in good numbers.
My husband grew up in New York and is Jewish. He knows this story from his generation (we are both now over 70)
I grew up in Hawaii pegged as a generic haole, and all through my school years my teachers and doctors were largely Japanese-American.
Yang is a Chinese name and he's a younger generation than me.
I think we are just looking at an immigrant-wave story.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden