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Oh how surprising. Racism on Digg. “A stereotypical and some might say, slightly offensive look at how Chinese speak English. ” SLIGHTLY??
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“Imagine the unease about outsourcing now, except that these were “insourcing” Chinese people to the west. So the laborers came face to face with the people who were threatening their livelihoods. It wasn’t pretty.”
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“In “Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans,” she tells the story of the “thousands of Chinese people who were violently herded onto railroad cars, steamers or logging rafts, marched out of town or killed,” from the Pacific coast
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Sedaris pulls her “ching chong” shit at BlogHer. Really glad I wasn’t there in person to fly off the handle.
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“I want to be the black Madonna.” – Rihanna. I guess Rihanna doesn’t know that Madonna has been black, Italian, Latina, Asian and any other culture under the colonized sun. In order to be the black Madonna, Rihanna would first have to be white.
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“Two weeks ago, Mila Miller, a black Canadian woman was the first top ten finalist eliminated from Canadian Idol. Last week, Khalila Glanville, another black Canadian woman, was the next to go. This week, Martha Joy Lim, a Portuguese-Filipina Canadian was
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“In experiment after experiment…people’s mistakes, although rare, follow a pattern: they shoot more unarmed blacks than unarmed whites, and they fail to shoot more whites than blacks who turn out to be holding weapons.”
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“Black Entertainment Television is not known as a popular source for animated programs, but the network is trying to change that with releases featuring the voices of actors Vin Diesel and Orlando Jones.”
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“African American identity was built on two criteria: African ancestry and an ancestral connection to chattel slavery…The second was assumed: If you were black in this country, somebody in your family had been enslaved.”
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“Formed a decade ago by Juan Miguel Mas, this company of obese dancers has become a cultural phenomenon in Cuba, breaking stereotypes here of dance, redefining the aesthetics of beauty and, along the way, raising the self-esteem of heavyset people.”
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“According to the lawsuit the Chicago Niketown store and its managers used racial slurs against its black employees and shoppers, segregated jobs so that the higher paid jobs went to white workers…”
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Sigh…
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“The German bookmarking service removed their logo. The laughing Asian Wong is gone – American users were outraged over the depiction and accused the German creators of racism”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
atlasien wrote:
If she keeps doing it, someday some Asian woman is going to get up out of the audience and give Amy Sedaris a beat down.
Now that would be funny. And I hope it gets posted on Youtube :p
Posted 02 Aug 2007 at 12:32 pm ¶
Wondering wrote:
“If she keeps doing it, someday some Asian woman is going to get up out of the audience and give Amy Sedaris a beat down.”
You mean like Katy Chen, the interviewer who (I think) giggles at the “ching chong” remark? Wonder if she’s friend’s with Rosie’s hairstylist.
Posted 02 Aug 2007 at 1:57 pm ¶
Jay wrote:
If she keeps doing it, someday some Asian woman is going to get up out of the audience and give Amy Sedaris a beat down.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but I don’t think it’s going to happen in this lifetime.
It does rankle me that essentially all of the comments on the BlogHer commenters essentially said, “well, this is kinda sorta offensive but she’s funny so it’s okay” because I’m not sure they’d say the same thing if the shoe was on the other foot. Besides, most of the Asian American comedians I’ve seen (and probably the ones that break out) are mostly self-deprecating, either to themselves or their own culture.
Posted 02 Aug 2007 at 6:59 pm ¶
A wrote:
I think I hear it too, but I think she seems like a person who just doesn’t get it. Her caption below the video makes her sound a bit nervous, not sure if it’s wrong or just in fun. That’s a damn disrespectful thing to do to a person though.
Posted 02 Aug 2007 at 10:37 pm ¶
lemure wrote:
I almost wish Asian people had a Charles Barron figure, although his behavior embarrasses me.
Posted 03 Aug 2007 at 10:39 am ¶