“CHINK”: If you need reminding of this, why are you even subscribing to this newsletter?

DRIVING: You’re not allowed to make this comment unless you’ve been to China/Vietnam/Thailand and seen a ding-up. Plus have the statistics to back this up. You have? OK

EYE SHAPE: See ‘CHINK’

FOOD: Is there a compelling reason to draw a connection between Lin and fortune cookies, takeout boxes or similar imagery? NO. But for the purposes of deadlines, laziness and the stresses of the 24/hour news cycle, TAKE it AWAY! (Also, suggest doing something funny about his shirt number and ordering ‘the number 5′, you know, on a menu; can’t think of one now but you’re the journalists!)

MARTIAL ARTS: People, the David Carradine references are old. Like 1970s old. Besides, most kung fu these days is practiced by white folks.

“ME LOVE YOU LIN TIME”: We spent about four hours in the office spitballing, just to come up with this piece of gold and we’re damned if anyone else is going to use it

Also banned: the offensive stereotype that Chinese don’t have a sense of humour

Resisting Defamation since 1989 has worked to let everyone know that the diverse white Americans are, in fact, diverse and Americans, and that any label given to us that papers over both those critical elements in our identity is bigoted. The diverse white Americans do have the same right as members of of other demographics have, after all, to name ourselves.

We were disappointed this week to see that the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) claims to have the right to name us “Caucasian” which has obviously been deliberately chosen to smother awareness in various segments of our multi-racial society about our diversity and our nationality. In a word, the AAJA told us our name based on its claim to supremacy.

The AAJA decided that we were “Caucasian” in this sentence: “Stop to think: Would a similar statement be made about an athlete who is Caucasian, African American or Latino?” What a supremacist insult.

Let’s compare “Asian American” with “Caucasian” to illustrate AAJA bigotry.

The word “Asian” explicitly invites awareness of diversity, including as that continent does national origins from Turkey and Israel in its west all the way across the world’s largest land mass to Korea and Japan. “Caucasian” is explicitly designed to smother our diversity.

The word “American” explicitly claims nationality, while “Caucasian” is explicitly designed to smother our nationality.

“Caucasian” is very clearly chosen as a label for us by the AAJA because it is a label that strips us of our diversity and nationality. The label reflects more racism, verbal thuggery, and bigotry. We can name ourselves, thank you very much.