links for 2007-05-15
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Viva la revolución! – Asia Pacific Arts
Thx Geraly. “Viva recalls the story of a Hapa woman named Barbie, played by Anna Biller…and her struggle to find herself, happiness, love (and potentially a few STD’s) in 1970s Southern California during the sexual revolution”
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Imus producer: Sharpton a ‘race-baiter’ – Yahoo! News
Thx Ananser. “Bernard McGuirk, Don Imus’ former producer, and Al Sharpton, together on combative debate for Fox News Channel’s “Hannity & Colmes” show last Friday. McGuirk called Sharpton a “race-baiter” looking for attention, while Sharpton said Imus and
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Too Hot for School?- eastbayexpress.com (CA)
Thx Ananser. “He defends his use of “darkie” as similar to blacks using the N-word. “I use ‘darkie’ every day,” he said. “I use it in the context that I’m Indian and I’m black. I’m a darkie.”
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Violence Against Immigrants Builds
Thx Tereza. “Plots to attack immigrants with grenades and semi-automatic weapons were uncovered in Alabama, Maryland and Washington, D.C. The lack of official condemnation of, and the lack of media attention to, this violence has created a national numbne
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UK pop starlets vie for America’s heart of darkness
Thx Ananser, who says: “Best dissection yet on the Joss Stone/Amy Winehouse/Lily Allen issue.”
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Two more shock jocks fired over racist prank
Thx Tereza. One month after the firing of radio host Don Imus, a pair of suspended New York shock jocks have been permanently pulled from the air by CBS Radio for a prank phone call rife with offensive Asian stereotypes.
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GQ EDITOR RIPPED FOR SLUR – New York Post Page Six Online Edition
Thx Ananser and Johnny. “GQ editor Jim Nelson uses the phrase “Asian whores” twice in the May issue in the Letter from the Editor discussing the hit DVD “The Secret,” which preaches the power of positive thinking.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
Lyonside wrote:
Re: Too Hot For School…
Dude, let’s get beyond the sexism, racism, and machismo – the dude sounds positively bi-polar (no disrespect to those with the disorder, and you who have it or know people who do know that severe case + no medication = scary scene), and really should be evaluated before being in contact with students.
Other than that, I can see this guy as a self-hating minority – he hates liberals (let’s see him get his job in, say, 1956), and he seems to think that he can use racial epithets and taunts on minorities because he is one (hrm. isn’t that a better reason NOT to?). He also has no boundaries for appropriate ways to deal with minors and typically teenage expressions of sexuality (other than by responding in kind).
What a lovely guy. Actually, I think I had his evil white twin as an adjunct professor or two – but as an adjunct, the school could just not renew their contracts… I doubt this HS is so lucky.
Posted 15 May 2007 at 8:17 am ¶
Brad wrote:
While it is good news to hear that Law enforcement isn’t ignoring home based threats to national security, I find the media blackout on the white racist terror plot story to be completely hypocritical. While the media says all the right things about don’t judge all muslims to be terrorists and such and yet only focus terror related stories only on muslims. Cheers to the Law enforcement for stopping this plot from being carried out.
Posted 15 May 2007 at 10:08 am ¶
wendi wrote:
Why doesn’t the GQ editor’s use of slurs surprise me? After all, they are the same magazine that decided to portray Asian/Asian-American women as the object of Quentin Tarantino’s sexual exploits:
http://mattersofrace.blogspot.com/2007/04/quentin-tarantino-in-gqgod-help-him.html
and a take on it from Angry Asian Man: http://www.angryasianman.com/2007/04/tired-of-tarantino.html
Posted 15 May 2007 at 10:12 am ¶
Katie wrote:
Re: GQ Editor –
He explains his actions by saying he’s “skewering a Western attitude that one ought to find noxious. The notion that Westerners can have and exploit whatever they want.”
So, to steal someone else’s line, what would you say if you were REALLY trying to insult me?
I love the twisted logic of this. “I’m only doing this bad thing so that people will learn that it is bad and not do it.”
Posted 15 May 2007 at 10:13 am ¶
summer wrote:
re: too hot for school
thank you, lyonside. racism aside, this guy sounds like a nut job. screaming in your face one minute, laughing the next. yikes! he’s completely self-righteous and arrogant. he can curse but no one else can? people who think that they cannot be wrong and are above the rules and law scare me.
on the flipside, I do agree that it’s a crying shame that the grad students had misspellings in the letter about him — including his name. come on Mills — step your game up.
Posted 15 May 2007 at 10:31 am ¶