Comments on: Goddamnit, Asian Americans

By: Bobby

Bobby — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 04:32:59 +0000

I wonder where all the loving outraged Chinese were last year protesting all the people in China who hung signs on their businesses and cars saying Kill all the Japanese? Hypocrites!

By: hehe

hehe — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 07:31:52 +0000

Why do Asian Americans care in the first place ? They’re Americans. If all the people in China get killed, they’ll still be slurping their smoothies and eating their donuts.

By: SinoSoul

SinoSoul — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:55:18 +0000

I’m going to the flip side. EFF Jimmy Kimmel. You’re telling me these kids aren’t a lil bit scripted? You’re saying 6YOs don’t pickup things from adults? And they’re totally naivete? That kids don’t repeat everything adults say?

Spoken like a bunch of non-parents, cuz my 2YO will repeat “gdamnit you f**tard Chinese driver” faster than the next Confederate.

Instead of brushing off the comment, JK took the blurt to another level. For that, he’s the only one responsible, because he deemed it funny. Because he’s not funny.

There are some red lines that shouldn’t be crossed. 1: saying Holocaust is OK. 2: hypothetical genocide. You can call every single AA slanty-eyed shitty drivers, but to make fun of killing 1.3B people? That’s not funny you ahole (unless it’s the Koreans).

By: AtTheBackoftheHill

AtTheBackoftheHill — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:07:41 +0000

First off, Jimmy Kimmel presents absurd, silly, and often lame humour late at night. So I rather doubt that many people who are upset regularly watch his show, or they would understand both the context and the style of “humour”. Cited out of context, almost anything can be offensive. The six year old’s statement was almost certainly cited out of context by people determined to be offended.

Secondly, I live near Chinatown, and use Cantonese on a daily basis. I have not yet heard anyone mention the Jimmy Kimmel show in ANY context in Cantonese (although if they did mention it in Mandarin, it would have gone right by me; I don’t speak passable Mandarin, and I am totally uninterested in what those dull irony-impaired Northerners have to say).

Third issue: Holy sh*t! We had a protest here in San Francisco? When was it, and where? Why didn’t I find out about it till just now? How many people attended? Was it more than ten?

Fourth item: The Global Times (環球時報) is the mouthpiece of the party. Here in San Francisco I have seen numerous Chinese newspapers for sale, many of which I read irregularly. I have no clue where the Global Times may be found. I’ve never seen a copy lying around in my favourite bakery. Must be too damned high-class and literate for the simple Toishanese bankers, entrepreneurs, and waiters. It’s probably avidly read by the China experts across the bay at UC Berkeley, though. As well as members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (Bob Avakian’s bunch of fevered Maoists).

By: Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:14:08 +0000

By and large, no — I mean, the US-based fifty-centers probably getting in on the fun too, but I’ve also been seeing anger at this from US-based Chinese friends who are very far from stupid, and are not ‘nationalist’ in the way the term is usually used.

I think this only makes sense if you assume that it’s not really about Jimmy Kimmel — that the whole thing really has to do with the perceptible change in US attitudes towards China over the past few years.

By: Chinese Netizen

Chinese Netizen — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 10:23:47 +0000

Are these Asian Americans the same people that wave the CCP flag in adoration every time an oil slick headed PRC official arrives at an American airport?

By: name

name — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:18:08 +0000

Is there really an “Asian American” opinion on this issue? This protesters remind me so much of those nationalist mobs in the PRC who pretend to express the hurt feelings of “China”. I don’t see “the Asian American opinion” there, I just see a bunch of ignorants with tasteless placards.

In fact I don’t see race. People tell me I am white and I believe them because I understand Laowai Comics.

By: bag-o-dicks

bag-o-dicks — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 04:36:17 +0000

I’m glad you finally agree with me that Asian Americans have the most absurd persecution complex of any minority in the western world.