By Louis Chan, AsAmNews National Correspondent
Users of Reddit’s Azn Identity forum overwhelmingly condemned an article in the New York Times that described Asian Americans as overrepresented in ice skating, as did many others on other social forums.
“Asians make up around 7 percent of the American population but have become vividly overrepresented in ice rinks and competitions at every level, from coast to coast,” the article reads.
The use of the term “overrepresented” quickly became a trigger for many.
“White people are overrepresented on stolen lands,” wrote Eastern_Lightning.
“You know why? asked Liberalism Must Die. “Because to them even 1 Asian is ‘overrepresented.”‘
“Overrepresented minority is an oxymoron,” said AyeMatter.
Similar comments can also be found on Twitter, with many of the remarks directed at reporter Andrew Keh who wrote the piece.
Keh later joined the discussion saying he used the word after speaking to multiple Asian American sociologists.
“It literally just means that participation is clearly disproportionate to the population stat cited in the same sentence. There’s no judment baked into it.”
His response did little to calm the storm.
Many questioned why the same sort of article hasn’t been written about Blacks in the NBA and NFL or Whites in ice hockey and baseball.
“This is what Nathan Chen gets for us Asians in America by winning an Olympic gold: a message that there are too many of us,” wrote Reddit user historybuff234.
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