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I agree with everything you said. About #1…I think...
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Tag Archives: racism
Superbowl Recipe and Xenophobic Superbowl Ad
It was Superbowl weekend. Did y’all see it? I didn’t see it all, but it gave me an excellent excuse to try this awesome hot Asian wings recipe from Kai:
It was absolutely delicious. I was, however, surprised that the Sriracha sauce isn’t as spicy after cooking, and I wish I’d put in that “Asian chili flakes” that Kai said would “burn your ass.” The older I get, the more I find myself craving extremely spicy food.
Two podcasts that address racism in the military, and Danny Chen the person
1. Check out this old podcast (before I had my awesome mic!) in July of 2009 that I did with my good friend Hoang Nguyen for the Thymos Book Project: http://thymos.org/book-project/ It’s the first interview. (For those waiting for the book project, it’s coming out in the next few months!) Hoang is a former Marine who served in Iraq during the first Bush’s administration, and he talks about racism in the Marines. He talks about one issue he had with a Vietnam vet where he had to leave his platoon for a little while in order to prevent violence.
Posted in Asian American, Citizenship, racism
Tagged Dan Choi, Hoang Nguyen, Kwong Eng, military, racism
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Don’t Check Asian
Thank you, Dali, for sending this article: Some Asians’ College Strategy: Don’t Check Asian. The article interviews some hapa Asian women with White last names (because their fathers are White) who decided to better their chances of getting into good colleges by checking the White box or not checking a race at all on the application. We’ve seen people who are full Asian actually change their last names to get around admission policy racism, but it’s probably a LOT easier to just be born with a White last name. What this also means is that if you’re an Asian American female who wants to do what’s best for your kids, it might make sense to just join the Club.
Posted in Asian American, Education
Tagged affirmative action, Asian Female Celebrity Club, racism
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The Hoodwinking of Asian America
"“I had read nothing like this before, so it almost feels like I’ve lived my life to this point in preparation for this role.” --Actress Jennifer Lim
I saw this yesterday. It’s about David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish, and it was one of the most e-mailed articles. Thank goodness it was Thanksgiving, and I knew better than to let the orientalists ruin my day. Even after all these years, I’m always surprised at the propaganda that certain Asian American playwrights and film producers throw at us.
“Touch” by Minh Duc Nguyen (Trailer Review)
bigWOWO rating: Avoid this racist bullshit. Seriously, given the crap we’ve gone through, it’s not overkill to protest the minute you see something like this.
Check out the trailer for Touch. It’s…OMG…yet ANOTHER WM/AF movie with Asian men in the background. And not only is it yet ANOTHER WM/AF movie, it’s a WM/AF movie by…bada boom bada bing…an Asian American guy (Minh Duc Nguyen)! And it’s produced by an Asian woman (Mellissa Tong)! Reminds me of Red Doors and Falling From…I mean, For…Grace–the racist legacy continues. It’s funny that I wrote about the exclusion of the Asian American heterosexual male among Asian Americans, and sure enough there’s a whole lot of stuff coming out that excludes Asian American heterosexual men, as if the universe had come together to help me prove my point. Check out the info on some of these movies: they’re winning Asian American movie awards. Did I or did I not speak the truth about our exclusion?
The Perversity of Human Biodiversity, a.k.a. “Scientific” Racism
"Look at my graph, and don't blame racism, cuz racism is a thing of the past. Hmm, I wonder if I can dryclean my white shirt and white hood together.""
After years of debating and exploring “Human Biodiversity” (HBD), a.k.a. “Scientific” Racism, I thought it might be good for me to say my final word–much as I did with the Pick Up Artist debate. I’m under no illusions: I’m sure there are more words that people will share as the years go on. As long as there is an IR disparity, there will be PUA, and as long as there is racism, there will be scientific racists, so I know that this discussion will most likely continue long after this post. But it’s been some time since the HBDers have brought anything new to the table, so it’s unlikely that my views will change much on this topic in the future. It’s time to settle up.
Thomas Jane and His Racist Swipe At Sung Kang
N’Jaila Rhee and Marissa Lee posted this story about Thomas Jane, an actor whom I had never heard of. Sylvester Stallone was directing a movie called Headshot, and Jane was fired and replaced by Sung Kang, the dude from Fast and Furious. Jane was pissed off, and he did what any disgruntled racist White man would do. He took a racist swipe at Sung Kang, his replacement.
Jane says his would-be partner Stallone didn’t even seem to care that he’d left: “I didn’t get a call from Stallone. I was a little upset about that,” Jane says, adding, “Maybe they didn’t want anybody on the movie with a bigger dick than him.”
Whites Claim Racial Oppression, and Chinese Men Have the Most Typical Face on the Planet
It looks like White America is under attack. Well, according to some people anyway: Are Whites Racially Oppressed?
Speaking of internet celebrities, they mentioned VDare, which is the online home of Steve Sailer, who is the the Human Biodiversity king. It says:
Peter Brimelow, author of “Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster,” asserts that much of white America’s anxiety derives from living under a black president and changing demographics.
Diversity, he says, “is not strength.”
Brimelow’s website, VDARE.COM, has been described as a hate site by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group that tracks extremist groups in the U.S.
Universal Humans and the Privilege of Whiteness
In the YA Literature thread, King, Kobukson and I had an interesting discussion with Oriental Right, formerly known as Asian of Reason. Some of you remember AOR–he is a “human biodiversity” proponent from Johns Hopkins who believes that black people on average are not as intelligent as White people, and Asian men aren’t as masculine as White men. With all due credit to him, he defended these views in a podcast with me, Alpha, and King (who is black), which we recorded here: Podcast. Although everyone disagreed with his views and the logical leaps he took to stand behind his beliefs, people respected him for having the courage to step up.
Posted in Asian American, Features, Writing
Tagged human biodiversity, literature, racism, Writing
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David Duke and Dukian Doppelgangers
- David Duke
A “doppelganger,” in the game Dungeons and Dragons, is a monster that changes shapes to mimic other humanoid creatures. In the X-men, the same kind of creature is called a shapeshifter. On the internet, a doppelganger is one who pretends to be someone that he or she is not. It is a form of troll. On Asian American sites, common doppelgangers tell people that they’re Asian when they really aren’t.
