I just wanted to weigh in with one thought: Racial preferences are a zero-sum game, meaning that for every person admitted to a school because of race, one person is not admitted because of race. Therefore, I’m not convinced that the scale of preferences really matters much; the costs (higher-merit folks denied) and benefits (lower-merit members of preferred groups accepted) are always in the exact same proportion

You can say, accurately, that Asians as a group are doing fine, but that doesn’t excuse the race-based discrimination that some members of the group face.