Four suggestions for reducing violence/discrimination against Asians/sex workers:
* Allow anyone from anywhere in the world to live and work in the US. This would allow Asians who are currently trapped under autocratic regimes (Uighers, Hong Kong, North Koreans) to escape more easily. It would also allow the refugees who are already here illegally to a) have access to a much broader array of work, instead of only industries that tolerate illegal immigrants b) seek police protection without fear that they will be imprisoned or deported.
* Allow sex workers to operate legally, including brothels. Right now, it's hard for sex workers to join forces and work together for greater security, as they can be accused of brothel keeping, pimping, and sex trafficking. Those "crimes" are punished much more severely than working as individual prostitutes.
Decriminalizing sex work would also allow sex workers to call the police without fear that they will kidnapped, caged, and raped by police themselves.
* End race based discrimination against Asians in K-12 schools and Ivy League universities. Currently, most Ivy League universities demand much higher achievement from Asian students in order to have the same chance of admission as Black or Hispanic students. IMHO, the right approach is to fix whatever is causing Black and Hispanic students to underachieve rather than to actively discriminate against Asian or Jewish students.
* End state run schools and state subsidies for schooling. Allow children to attend school where-ever they wish, instead of forcing them to attend school where they happen to have been born. That way students who want to learn, can more easily escape the macho, anti-intellectual culture that is prevalent in many black and hispanic communities. Create community centers where people of all ages can learn entrepreneurship and value creation, instead of being taught to be helpless victims at the mercy of their past and other ethnic groups.
* Allow anyone from anywhere in the world to live and work in the US. This would allow Asians who are currently trapped under autocratic regimes (Uighers, Hong Kong, North Koreans) to escape more easily. It would also allow the refugees who are already here illegally to a) have access to a much broader array of work, instead of only industries that tolerate illegal immigrants b) seek police protection without fear that they will be imprisoned or deported.
* Allow sex workers to operate legally, including brothels. Right now, it's hard for sex workers to join forces and work together for greater security, as they can be accused of brothel keeping, pimping, and sex trafficking. Those "crimes" are punished much more severely than working as individual prostitutes.
Decriminalizing sex work would also allow sex workers to call the police without fear that they will kidnapped, caged, and raped by police themselves.
* End race based discrimination against Asians in K-12 schools and Ivy League universities. Currently, most Ivy League universities demand much higher achievement from Asian students in order to have the same chance of admission as Black or Hispanic students. IMHO, the right approach is to fix whatever is causing Black and Hispanic students to underachieve rather than to actively discriminate against Asian or Jewish students.
* End state run schools and state subsidies for schooling. Allow children to attend school where-ever they wish, instead of forcing them to attend school where they happen to have been born. That way students who want to learn, can more easily escape the macho, anti-intellectual culture that is prevalent in many black and hispanic communities. Create community centers where people of all ages can learn entrepreneurship and value creation, instead of being taught to be helpless victims at the mercy of their past and other ethnic groups.