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Outrage as US comedian mocks Asian Americans
news.yahoo.com ^ | 3/29/14 | unknown

Posted on 03/29/2014 6:23:24 AM PDT by armydawg505

Washington (AFP) - Social media erupted in outrage and counter-attacks Friday after US comedian Stephen Colbert used language that mocked Asian Americans in what was intended as an anti-racist jibe.

Colbert, who is liberal but parodies a blustery conservative on his late night talk show, took aim at the Washington Redskins football team whose name is considered offensive by many Native Americans.

Colbert mocked team owner Dan Snyder who has announced a fund to support Native Americans while rejecting calls to change the name.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: hahaha; stephencolbert
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To: armydawg505
No radio disc jockey would dare to play this one today:

Chinese Rock and Egg Roll--Buddy Hackett (1956)

Note the references to Dungaree Doll and Seventeen.

41 posted on 03/29/2014 7:54:00 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: cripplecreek

I find that racial stereotypes are quite funny.

Americans have just become a bunch of I’m offended drones of some sort.


42 posted on 03/29/2014 7:56:19 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: armydawg505
Has there ever been a totally dumber group of folks than white, left wing liberals?

Probably not. Not just dumb, but self-genocidal.

43 posted on 03/29/2014 7:56:45 AM PDT by MCH
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To: Vision

The problems aren’t with the offenders but with the offended.

Hell, I’m not offended by being called a cracker and can’t really think of a single word that could offend me.


44 posted on 03/29/2014 7:57:48 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek
Well thank you Martin Luther Hong.

: )

You're welcome.

45 posted on 03/29/2014 7:58:21 AM PDT by wai-ming
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To: cripplecreek
"Gran Torino"

Quintessential Clint Eastwood AND a good life lesson.

46 posted on 03/29/2014 7:58:53 AM PDT by moovova
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To: chris37

My great grandfather was a Polish Jew who picked up the nickname “Frenchy” somewhere along the line.


47 posted on 03/29/2014 7:59:43 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Vendome

Fluctuations.


48 posted on 03/29/2014 8:00:05 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: cripplecreek
I think everybody needs to get the hell over it.

Yes, AFTER progressives get their noses rubbed good and hard in the s&*^ pile they've left in our society.

49 posted on 03/29/2014 8:00:29 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: wai-ming
All I know is that I've seen Carlos Mencia, George Lopez, and almost ANY black comedian absolutely denigrate, ridicule and stereotype the common white man RELENTLESSLY. They are the acceptable PC targets.

The ‘audience’ which includes blacks and latinos laughs hysterically, and the whites in the audience are socially required to laugh to show they are not racist. This is because ‘society’ - Obama/Democrat/Liberal/Media political correctness dictate they can say NOTHING precisely because they are BORN racist and have no say in the matter because they are white. Pathetic duplicity and hypocrisy at its worst.

And, it is this allowance for hypocrisy that prompts their young to focus on and target unsuspecting whites as the bad fall-guy for all their problems. In the end, we have the Knockout Game, black teenager feral mobs and dozens of other manifestations. And in that same end, I have a 45 ACP 1911 with backup magazines with me at all times.

50 posted on 03/29/2014 8:02:13 AM PDT by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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To: cripplecreek

LOL!!!

Too funny.

Luv that movie.


51 posted on 03/29/2014 8:05:42 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: armydawg505

If Stephen Colbert isn’t fired by his network for his anti-Asian comments, as Don Imus and Paula Deen were for their anti-Black comments, it will prove that Asian-Americans are, in fact, unfairly discriminated against, as they contend.

If Stephen Colbert gets to keep his job, it will be because the media considers an anti-Black ‘’nappy-headed’’ joke an outrageous offense while an Anti-Asian joke is acceptable.

As for the Washington football team, American Indians have themselves accepted the term ‘’Native Americans’’ to describe themselves, so why doesn’t the owner of the Washington team change its name to the Washington Native Americans?


52 posted on 03/29/2014 8:11:54 AM PDT by Bluestocking
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To: Vision
Asians have no right to racial grievances in the US.

Asians do have a right to freedom of speech. They have a right to speak out when they are disrespected.

If Blacks have a right to racial grievances, then so should people of all races. Otherwise, no one should.

I have not seen the "right to racial grievances" anywhere in the Constitution. Problem is, liberals assume that there is such a right for "protected" minorities, and they use this supposed right as a means to suppress the non-protected races.

I don't think (most) Asians are looking for "protected" status. They just want to expose the hypocrisy of granting it to one race and not the others.

Perhaps Caucasian-Americans should join them in their quest to expose the double standard.

53 posted on 03/29/2014 8:21:34 AM PDT by wai-ming
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"I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand,
Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain.
He was looking for the place called Lee Ho Fook's,
Going to get a big dish of beef chow mein."

54 posted on 03/29/2014 8:21:42 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: cripplecreek

This has tickled my funny bone this morning :D


55 posted on 03/29/2014 8:24:57 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

thanks!


56 posted on 03/29/2014 8:25:21 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: Clemenza
I had a good friend, Danny Wong, whom I used to call a Slant Eyed Heathen. His come back, I can't be a heathen I am a Baptist.

Another good friend is Armenian whom I called a Monophysite Heretic, it got him interested in his heritage and he appropriated all my books on Byzantium to research his families past.

57 posted on 03/29/2014 8:25:46 AM PDT by Little Bill (EVICT Queen Jean)
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To: armydawg505
"Has there ever been a totally dumber group of folks than white, left wing liberals?"

Yes. The people who keep voting them into office.

58 posted on 03/29/2014 8:26:12 AM PDT by 60Gunner (Fight with your head high, or grovel with your head low.)
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To: Little Bill

My Hispanic friend named Charlie who I call my chocolate chip chewing Chicano chum.


59 posted on 03/29/2014 8:33:19 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek
I think everybody needs to get the hell over it.

Indeed; this has become the Age of Taking Offense. Whatever happened to the philosophy of "sticks and stones"? Shows as recent as "Seinfeld" could probably not be made today because it would offend this or that group.

60 posted on 03/29/2014 8:35:24 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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