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- N: Ignore my post above. Writing on a phone between traffic lights are not a great idea. @king My point is, we should...
- N: @king You’re missing my point completely. Can’t you see it’s tge lack of critique and...
- King: Hey there Mojo: I’m not so much arguing that the government is either monolith or that it is dead set...
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- Elagabalus: I guess the term ‘Yellow Cab’ wouldn’t apply here. I think ‘Yellow Limo’...
- N: After Jake Cherry and Murdoch, the next batter up is Tony Blair? It would be hilarious if true.
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- indieking: AA indie scene sucks, indie film from AA who goes back to HK to get support sucks, so how are you going to...
- Dman: Instead watch Byron Bigwowo favorite Asian American playwright David Henry Hwang semi-autobiographical teleplay...
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- bigWOWO: Here’s Ken Tanaka’s follow up: It’s pretty funny! It reminds me of Smelly Guys Is A Bad...
- K. Wallace: I once asked my lab partner in college where she was from (she happened to be asian american) At first I...
- John Doe: Along with all the where you are from questions, I wonder what would have been the reaction if the leaker...
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- Bint: Building up a strong economy and branding take a whole lot of time, years and even decades. Among these two,...
- Nottyboy: I don’t think that quality assurance scandals like the ones about the toxic baby formula help. I...
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- King: Well, it’s an interesting idea… but you do realize that you’re taking an article that is...
- Thak: @2nd Choice, This is true. White women like to comfort/delude themselves with the false belief that Asian men...
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- Pozhal: King, No, most authors do not become face recognizable until they’ve had their movies made into...
- King: I think that most authors do not become face recognizable until they have had several best sellers.
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- King: ^ me too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =z-q29hbEP04
- robocop: @kobukson I’d buy that for a dollar
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- King: ^ Ha! Yes, using the word “Scientific” in the title means that it can’t be possibly be...
- burrdi hurr: ITT: Insecure white guy, butthurt because of scientific racism. Featured word: SCIENTIFIC. You act like...
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- bigWOWO: John, I agree. My hope is that these cars will get better in time. I remember when the pocket calculator...
- John Doe: “but hey if that doesn’t work there’s been an idea of a thorium power plant for a while now:”...
- John Doe: Tommy, If I remember by college science class correctly, that video just describes a basic hydrogen fuel...
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- bigWOWO: BTW, I LOVED the last chapter, even though some people thought it was hard to relate to the rest of the...
- bigWOWO: Auvo T, That’s awesome! I think you’ll like the book. It’s specifically about...
- Auvo T: So we are mislead, Rovaniemi is the name of the family, not the town (in Finland) where they live. The book...
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- N: On the other hand, how many of you guys actually remember Hatoyama Yukio, an ex-Prime Minister in Japan that...
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- Chr..: “Amy Chua’s method is not recognizably Chinese or very Asian, sure she has the face of one but...
- tone: Just to interrupt for one moment here, I’ve tried to stress this to many people but nobody seems to...
- bigWOWO: Wow, that’s some story. I need to check out that documentary. I think one important point in this...
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- smh: You know…Zhang Ziyi has consistently dated Chinese guys. Vivi Nevo was the only white guy she dated afaik....
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- Lingyai: Yeah I wanted to comment but ES said pretty much what I would. Thanks for saving me the time
- bigWOWO: Eurasian, I totally agree. To be quite honest, for me, as a person who has been following race since high...
- Eurasian Sensation: Seems like there are a few different issues at play here. I think a lot of people in public...
- Lingyai: Yeah I wanted to comment but ES said pretty much what I would. Thanks for saving me the time
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- N: @john doe Anyone who thinks the way that israel is created is acceptable should be happy to give back New Nexico,...
- John Doe: ^Yes Chr, I do know. Given all that doesn’t it make sense that Europe bear the burden of creating the...
- Chr..: Do you guys not realize that the State of Israel was created because of European anti-Semitism, and its...
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- Raguel: Very good, Pozhal and Chr. Now hug each other with tears welling in your eyes like long lost lovers, and...
- Chr..: @ Pozhal Your observation seems to be inaccurate with Asian Women who are with White men. A lot of those men...
- Pozhal: Women in general have more STDs than men because of the 80-20 theory, which states that roughly speaking, 20%...
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Tag Archives: Orientalism
Snowlipsism
Thanks to TZ and King for our internal discussion.
Here is a Fighting 44s koan that Xian wrote a while back: If a tree falls in the forest and there’s no White Man to hear it, did it really fall?
Posted in Asian American, Education, Knowledge, media
Tagged Asian racism, HBD, human biodiversity, Orientalism
12 Comments
The End of History and the Last Asian Man
A Canadian-Chinese Work of Orientalist White-Worshipping Glory
Orientalists–you people are everywhere. Here I am, getting set in writing my piece for the Thymos Book Project, and you Orientalist Mofo’s have to lob another one in my direction. I guess the upside is that you’re providing a good lead-in to my introduction of the Thymos Book Project–which will come as soon as I’m done with my first draft. I’m sorry, but I’m not going to let your issues interfere with my work.
Posted in media
Tagged deception, interracial relationships, media, Orientalism, racism, white privilege
26 Comments
David Carradine Dead
David Carradine
This is shocking. Wow. Out of nowhere.
David Carradine was the actor assigned to the leading character in the TV show Kung Fu, a role that Bruce Lee invented but was denied since he, ironically, wasn’t White. Since those days, David Carradine, with his slow moving Tai Chi, created a faux-Asian image that Americans bought like crazy. Being White helped launch and solidify his career as a leading role and figure in Orientalist Asian American culture, most recently in Tarantino’s Kill Bill films.
"What Color is That Baby?"
Bob Herbert writes a poignant Op-Ed about media coverage and race in today’s NY Times.
“What color is that baby?” he asked.
A tremendous silence fell over the room. Everyone understood what he meant. If the baby was white, the chances were much better that the story was worth big play. It might be something to get excited about.
This is the concept of Orientalism in a nutshell. People have certain ideas of what races are supposed to be, what people of certain races are supposed to act like, and how we should feel about people depending on what race they are. People are supposed to feel sad when White people get murdered. They don’t extend the same empathy if the victims are Black, Latino, or Asian. Those stories get cut before they’re even written.
