Posted on 03/14/2023 9:44:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The one year I don’t go to the movies, the Asians dominate the 95th Academy Awards. The film Everything Everywhere All at Once scored seven wins, including Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. I have yet to see the film, but any movie that combines the immigrant experience with the multiverse (not MCU) must be quite the trip. The plot revolves around a Chinese immigrant laundromat worker who must set things right in several parallel universes featuring herself to avoid a calamity. It has historic for actress Michelle Yeoh, the first Asian woman to win in the category. But other actors clinched career milestones: Jamie Lee Curtis won Best Supporting Actress. And Ke Huy Quan, whom you might remember as 'Short Round' from Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom and 'Data' from The Goonies, won Best Supporting Actor.
The problem is how some outlets reported on Yeoh’s win.
“Michelle Yeoh makes #Oscars95 history as the first actress who identifies as Asian to win in the Best Actress category,” wrote Entertainment Tonight.
“Michelle Yeoh wins the Oscar for best actress, making history as the first person who identifies as Asian to win the award,” posted NPR.
Michelle Yeoh makes #Oscars95 history as the first actress who identifies as Asian to win in the Best Actress category.
pic.twitter.com/4IiguLEmM9— Entertainment Tonight (@etnow) March 13, 2023
#BREAKING: Michelle Yeoh wins the Oscar for best actress making history as the first person who identifies as Asian to win the award.https://t.co/u3f8TpIZZl— NPR (@NPR) March 13, 2023
“Identifies as Asian” https://t.co/UaxfOghmQG— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) March 13, 2023
“Identifies as Asian” is an odd way to describe someone of that race . There are no Rachel Dolezal games at play. Ms. Yeoh is an Asian woman and still stunning. The Woke Left is desperately trying to lecture us about why this is an appropriate description because back in the 1930s, there was another Asian actress, Merle Oberon, who was nominated for the same award for The Black Angel (1935). The difference is that Ms. Oberon hid her East Asian heritage; she was biracial.
But we all know that’s crap because racial identity is at the core of the far left, along with the authoritarian enforcement measures that go with it. It’s why these people go nuts when someone of a differing racial background tries to do something like cook another culture’s food. Yes, people have been canceled over such infractions. They’re trying to frame it as Yeoh being liberated to identify as she wishes with his win. And while it is historic and a significant moment in Oscar history, it leeches into the silly games, where the Left condones people identifying as they like until it becomes problematic, which is a criterion that’s beyond subjective.
Just say she’s the first Asian to win because that’s a fact. Oberon didn’t win Best Actress in the 1930s.
Also, when The New York Times gets it right on the first pitch, you know you screwed up.
Michelle Yeoh won the best actress for her role in “Everything, Everywhere All at Once.” The victory makes her the first Asian star to win best actress in the 95-year history of the Academy Awards.
https://t.co/GTL1F2zZyT pic.twitter.com/N3Q3BrgEMV— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 13, 2023
I’m done with Hollywood. Top gun Maverick blew the doors off in the box office for 2022. Yet it won nothing? I’m with Tom Cruise on this one. Hollywood has gone woke, let it go broke.
A cis-Asian? They must be pretty bigoted.
Michelle who?
Good for the Asians of the theater.
They are just as creative as other groups. If their work serves to entertain and enlighten, they have earned that time in the limelight.
Some themes are universal.
Be careful, be very careful.
Many, many moons ago Asians were one of the protected groups. Then, they began excelling at places like the University of California college system. So much so that the UC system began considering them no different than those evil, privileged whites.
Well, I think I have a way for the stone-cold UC racists to justify their racism. A brand new category:
CaucASIANS.
Asia includes all countries from Turkey all the way to Japan
And most of Russia. Hard to believe the actress is first Asian. First Oriental may be.
Michelle Yeoh. She played a Bond girl in Tomorrow Never Dies with Pierce Brosnan and she played a Starship captain on Star Trek: Discovery
People identify as Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Swedish, Vietnamese, Irish, Greek, Lithuanian, Laotian, English, Cambodian, Swiss, etc.
White American liberals want them to identify as their ethnic group so it's easier to catalogue the grievances white American liberals want to tag them with, so white American liberals can virtue signal their sympathy.
When I was a kid in the 50’s, the term for people from the Orient, was Orientals.
The US is a weird place, seen from Asia, with respect to “Asians”. In Asia there is no such thing as a general Asian identity. The very idea is absurd. An Indian is not a Chinese, a Filipino is not a Korean.
In the US it exists, but as a white people thing. That any Asians take up such rhetorical tics is to fit in with white (mainly liberal subculture) expectations.
I looked and it did win for Best Sound but your point is still valid.
She is from the Malaysian Chinese community, that is, an overseas Chinese. That’s quite a distinct group. They tend to be middle class and above in Yeoh’s generation, but their ancestors are in the extremely poor peasantry of Cantonese and Fukien/Fujian (China’s Dogpatch) origins, which were mostly shipped out as indentured labor.
A very good book on the subject is “World on Fire” Amy Chua(yes, the “Tiger Mother”).
This was supposed to be a Jackie Chan movie.
The change to the female star seems to have worked out well.
People don’t identify with continent but white liberal Americans? Is the key that they’re not called white liberal North Americans?
And that was no Occident.
👍🏻🤣
Very good. They’re just proxy Whites, anyway./sarc
i saw it on an airplane with the sound off most of the time.
it had some interesting aspects, such as an alternative existence in which individuals existed as animated rocks on a desert planet.
however the general premise seemed overworked, and additionally burdened with somewhat trite asian tropes (no matter who produced and directed).
i am willing to be corrected, especially since i did not get the opportunity to view the film in an optimal manner.
on TG2, the production goal seemed to be to tell a good story in an exciting way, without too many oscar pretentions, and in those aspects, it seemed to succeed very well.
Talk about discrimination...
Did you know that the only Irishman who has identified as an ‘Irishman’, and who’s ever won the best actor award is Daniel Day Lewis? He’s won the award 3 times, and Gangs of New York wasn’t one of them.
The Banshees of Inisherin was nominated for 9 Academy Awards this year and won none.
Did you know that Irish actors and filmmakers have only been nominated for 104 Academy awards in it’s history, and that they have only won 18 times in total?
Now that... Is discrimination, and it happens every year during Irish History month.
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