Why I hate race-baiting columns

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 3/1/7 | Debra J. Saunders

[SmithL]

WHAT PEOPLE in the news business want to know is: How did the "Why I hate blacks" column by Kenneth Eng that ran in AsianWeek Feb. 23 ever make it by the paper's editors?

AsianWeek announced yesterday that Eng had been dismissed and editor-at-large Ted Fang acknowledged a "failing of our editorial process" at a press conference with the NAACP.

I still want to know: Did editors think that running a racist column would be cutting edge? That an Asian Ann Coulter wannabe would create buzz? That they could get away with running racist copy because it is a publication serving an Asian-American audience?

Presumably AsianWeek management will provide an explanation at a Friday town meeting billed as an open discussion on "the media's role and responsibility in fostering dialogue that leads to a greater understanding between Asian and African American communities."

That's high-minded language from a paper that published a column that listed among "reasons we should discriminate against blacks" the assertion that blacks are "weak-willed" and "the only race that has been enslaved for 300 years."

No AsianWeek manager can claim surprise at the column. Eng is a self-described "Asian supremacist," who wrote a "Why I hate Asians" column in January. In November he wrote, "White people hate us and will always hate us." Unlike the anti-black column, those columns sparked no Chronicle story and no City Hall resolution against AsianWeek.

"It's kind of shocking that those two other articles did not bring the level of attention" to AsianWeek as the anti-black article,...Jew believes the anti-Asian and anti-white columns should have received the same scrutiny as the anti-black screed.

Except the Special City has a way of making excuses for bigotry and intolerance -- when they percolate from the left or ethnic groups.

[2banana]

Why I hate liberals who try to turn this kind of thing into a "Why I hate conservative" column

[RexBeach]

Does Debra think that Ann Coulter is a racist?

[Mark was here]

What is race baiting anyway? Isn't it simply asking honest questions that lead to uncomfortable answers?

[darkwing104]

Problem is, I've seen more hate coming from liberals that would even scare Satan.

[razorback-bert]

I never see columns such as this one about "black supremacists".

[benjamin032]

So an "Asian Ann Coulter wannabe" is a racist? I wonder if the author has looked in any mirrors to find racism.

[Old Professer]

Torricelli invented the mercury barometer to gauge the atmospheric pressure; a scientific endeavor to satisfy a curious mind.

He died much later from the cumulative mercury poising.

I see a parallel in this case.

[Lee'sGhost]

"What is race baiting anyway? Isn't it simply asking honest questions that lead to uncomfortable answers?"

No, race baiting is interjecting race into an issue as a cause for whatever the issue is when in actuality race had nothing to do with it.

[martin_fierro]

Presumably AsianWeek management will provide an explanation at a Friday town meeting billed as an open discussion on "the media's role and responsibility in fostering dialogue that leads to a greater understanding between Asian and African American communities."

Oh, I'm sure that will be enlightening.

[BamaAndy]

See how the libs lie--inferring that Ms. Coulter is a racist truns me off her original point and dismissive of her article--libs lie. Debra Saunders: you're a lib. So you lie. Evident here, babe.

[gcruse]

"Debra Saunders: you're a lib. So you lie."

That's true to the extent she is a liberal. Except Debra isn't a liberal. I'll give her the interpretation of using Ann in the sense of being deliberately outrageous.

[Elsie]

I never see columns such as this one about "black supremacists".

You need to search for something from Farrakhan!