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It might be simpler to claim it's all Marxism for you, but perhaps that is because Marx was an outsize political thinker who has influenced the world as much as Adam Smith or whoever else you admire. But not everything you dislike is due to Marx (or Lenin), and even if they had a role to play, that's not an argument against what you want to disprove, any more than blaming Sun Tzu for every war in the world or Kautilya for how nasty politicians are nowadays.
Asians in US were systematically discriminated against for more than a century since forcefully trafficked as railroad labor - which you may not have heard about of course and escaping persecution and again being persecuted for their skin colour and treated like second class citizens. Persecuted again during 2nd world war as japs, and then after 9/11 as jihadis
Facing violence from whites and African Americans both - (black on Asian crime is
Far more than white on black crime - educate yourself about it - there is actual data on this)
And succeeding thanks to their work ethics (asian work ethics is staff of legends even in Silicon Valley or general US folklore)
Now you want to sacrifice their careers under the bus of some vague social justice
This is what real racism looks like
Segregation in the US is still in living memory and the economic and social damage caused by such policies can arguably never be repaired, and definitely not eradicated from black communities in a generation or two.
Sure, it might be unfair if you're the self-described lazy brother of Mindy Kaling whose grades were too crap to get into medical school, but slavery and not getting any reparations for it isn't fair either, is it? So which is more unfair?
Aren't Asian Americans, including South Asians, the most well-off ethnic group in the US? (Answer, yes, they are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_income - i.e., their median income is higher than Caucasian Americans', and twice as much as African Americans').
“I believe that affirmative action is a system of legalised racial discrimination that has destroyed the dreams and aspirations of millions of people whose only fault is the colour of their skin or the shape of their eyes"
https://www.thequint.com/us-nri-news/asian-americans-hardest-hit-by-affirmative-action-almost-black-author-vijay-chokal-ingam-mindy-kaling-brother
He is among the activists who want the US Supreme Court to rule against affirmative action