And let's not forget Porntip Nakhirunkanock, Miss Universe 1988
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 ...
How about si se pawadweh?
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.
I have a Japanese last name and 90% of the people butcher it. I don’t count it as racist.
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
That is classic. You even have ready-made Memes on the Internet.
Bang, Ding, Ow!
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.
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.
Her first name is “Porn Tip”? How unfortunate. Sounds like a gratuity for a voyeur show.
She is a beautiful woman.
I have a Celtic family name that even I mispronounce all the time (easier that way).
Everybody’s a victim. And I’m the oppressor. I get it. I just don’t care.
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?
Ah, boo hoo. If I had a nickle for every time my name was mispronounced, I could have retired at 40.
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!
Say his NAME!!!!!
> 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!”
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.
"SAY IT!"
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