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Commentary: The casual racism of mispronouncing an Asian person's name
LA Times via MSN ^ | 04/05/2021 | Ashley Lee

Posted on 04/06/2021 1:37:27 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen

The Times recently reported on the outcry following the L.A. theater community's Ovation Awards, where organizers mispronounced the name of an Asian American nominee and displayed a photo of the wrong actor.

If anyone doubts the racially based sting that comes with such insults to one's professional endeavors, just read the emails that rolled in to The Times after publication of our article. One reader said the Ovation reaction was just an example of "Asian victimhood."

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


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To: Kid Shelleen

How about si se pawadweh?


61 posted on 04/06/2021 2:22:30 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Oh Horse Feathers!

I still have so much trouble pronouncing my grandson’s middle name that my DIL has asked me nicely not to try.

I doubt she thinks it is racsim, but merely nana’s linguistic inability.


62 posted on 04/06/2021 2:26:27 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: Kid Shelleen

I have a Japanese last name and 90% of the people butcher it. I don’t count it as racist.


63 posted on 04/06/2021 2:28:33 PM PDT by chrisinoc
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To: Kid Shelleen
I never heard former quarterback Brett Favre (pronounced FARV) complain.
64 posted on 04/06/2021 2:29:59 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Kid Shelleen
Americans do just fine with Asian means. For example:

Sum Ting Wong is pronounced “something wrong”
Wi Tu Low is pronounced “we too low”
Ho Lee Fuk is pronounced “holy phuck”
Bang Ding Ow is pronounced “bang ding ow”

It is really very simple and even Californicators can understand it.

Worth a watch: 'Oh ***t': TV Producer's two-word response as he watches his station report false and racist names for the Asiana crash pilots

65 posted on 04/06/2021 2:30:09 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle gclass and our Republic )
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To: Kid Shelleen
I had a student named Wawrzkeizicz about 20 years ago. It was pronounced Va-skev-ich. Or was it Throatworblermangrove??? I can't remember for sure.

And let's not forget Porntip Nakhirunkanock, Miss Universe 1988

66 posted on 04/06/2021 2:31:50 PM PDT by Poser (Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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To: Jewbacca
There’s a reason I go by “Jewbacca.”

That is classic. You even have ready-made Memes on the Internet.


67 posted on 04/06/2021 2:35:01 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle gclass and our Republic )
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To: mfish13

Bang, Ding, Ow!


68 posted on 04/06/2021 2:37:00 PM PDT by JennysCool ( "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." ― Mark Twain )
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To: Migraine

What I dislike is when people have long surnames and expect you to get it right because their ancestors decide to build a word-salad. Some of them are so long they read like a royal title. They need to just accept that no one wants to work that hard. Lazy isn’t racism.


69 posted on 04/06/2021 2:39:43 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle gclass and our Republic )
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To: Kid Shelleen

Only whites have a problem with pronouncing unusual non-European names? I defy anyone who is not Mongolian to pronounce a Mongolian name correctly. My surname is German and I have gone through my life having people of all colors not knowing how to pronounce it or spell it. And I don’t know how many times I have heard “Blagojevich” mangled, even by non-whites.


70 posted on 04/06/2021 2:42:08 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: Poser

Her first name is “Porn Tip”? How unfortunate. Sounds like a gratuity for a voyeur show.

She is a beautiful woman.


71 posted on 04/06/2021 2:43:12 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle gclass and our Republic )
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To: RedElement

I have a Celtic family name that even I mispronounce all the time (easier that way).


72 posted on 04/06/2021 2:47:35 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Kid Shelleen

Everybody’s a victim. And I’m the oppressor. I get it. I just don’t care.


73 posted on 04/06/2021 2:48:15 PM PDT by Rocky
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To: wildcard_redneck

Sadly my nick name was “Jewbacca” long before memes were a thing, almost before the Internet existed.

An IDF drill sergeant gave it to me. (Not pleased about the religious exemption for my beard — now it’s probably more common than not.)

Who nu we were so fashionable?


74 posted on 04/06/2021 2:54:01 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Ah, boo hoo. If I had a nickle for every time my name was mispronounced, I could have retired at 40.


75 posted on 04/06/2021 2:59:45 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Kid Shelleen

okay! Then it should be the same for people of Asian decent should pronounce my name correctly. It would be racist in the same way. Equal protection under the law you know!


76 posted on 04/06/2021 2:59:58 PM PDT by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.(DT4POTUS))
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To: Kid Shelleen
Mister Mxyzptlk and the casual racism of Superman.

Say his NAME!!!!!

77 posted on 04/06/2021 3:00:15 PM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: a fool in paradise

> And when it happens to someone who’s Polish?

In school when someone would mispronounce my last name, one of my friends would always look at me and loudly say “I KNEW you were saying it wrong!”


78 posted on 04/06/2021 3:02:56 PM PDT by Do_Tar (To my NSA handler: I have an alibi.)
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To: 21twelve

I got a good laugh out of that video. My son was in college when he told us his friend Timothy’s first and last name were butchered up so badly by an Asian professor, that he was marked absent.


79 posted on 04/06/2021 3:07:06 PM PDT by chronicles
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To: Kid Shelleen
Nguyen.

"SAY IT!"

80 posted on 04/06/2021 3:07:30 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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