Acceptable racism
Orcinus, who should really lay off the “smart quotes”, on why bigotry against Asian -Americans is een as more acceptable than other forms of racism:
Ignoring bigotry about Asians in fact underscores white Americans? unspoken attitudes about blacks as well. That is, they know that there is now a great social stigma attached to expressing commonly held views about blacks — that they are stupid and lazy and inclined to criminality, especially. So of course they don?t dare to express it, even if they may privately believe it. And even if they don?t believe it, they?re perfectly aware that this is the baseline view of African-Americans.
But when it comes to Asians, they don?t hold those particular views. Thus, by this logic, their attitudes about Asians can?t be bigoted — even though these views are that they are inscrutable and untrustworthy and, ultimately, insect-like.