Backlash after "racist" Stephen Colbert tweet

[Octoberist]

As an Asian, this outrage makes Asians look like a bunch out of touch squares.

 

[Octoberist]

In fact, I'm completely embarrassed that there is even an outrage in the first place.

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

I'm sure Jon Stewart is behind #CancelColbert.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I'm sure Jon Stewart is behind #CancelColbert.

Orson Welles would be proud.

 

[Schlosser85]

This "backlash" is a bunch of people parading around in public making a spectacle out of how dumb they are.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

This "backlash" is a bunch of people parading around in public making a spectacle out of how dumb they are.

Hopefully it's some ironic, surreal performance art from college pranksters, not serious people believing this is important activism.

 

[Spider-Who?]

Hopefully it's some ironic, surreal performance art from college pranksters, not serious people believing this is important activism.

Unfortunately, it is the latter. The handful of people who started the #cancelColbert movement are quite serious in their belief that Colbert's joke is a prime example of white privilege and anti-Asian sentiment and that anyone who found the joke funny (or at least were not offended) are racists themselves and any Asian-Americans who don't agree with them are traitors. The scary thing is that they are aware it was satirical. On twitter, check out @suey_park if you want to fear for society.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I've checked out her twitter. She has a huge inferiority complex. She started the whole #NotYourAsianSidekick stuff last year. But it goes beyond race. She thinks any man who tries talking to her, is trying to bed her, and she implies that people who depend on significant others are weak-minded, etc. She just seems very insecure and desperate for attention.

 

[Schlosser85]

She thinks any man who tries talking to her, is trying to bed her

Gee, sounds kind of.....sexist?

 

[terry78]

Women, amirite?

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Unfortunately, it is the latter. The handful of people who started the #cancelColbert movement are quite serious in their belief that Colbert's joke is a prime example of white privilege and anti-Asian sentiment and that anyone who found the joke funny (or at least were not offended) are racists themselves and any Asian-Americans who don't agree with them are traitors. The scary thing is that they are aware it was satirical. On twitter, check out @suey_park if you want to fear for society.

The ironic thing is that this whole "movement" has been used to give bigots ammunition against Asian-Americans as overly sensitive and humorless.

People actually believe Suey Park is speaking for Asians at large.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Women, amirite?

#CancelTerry78!!!

 

[Octoberist]

Funny enough, if you go to twitter, you'll be hard pressed to find any supporters of #cancelcoblert. Type it in, you'll find people making fun of the 'movement' which has drastically died down from yesterday. Infact, I think you can see more #cancelsusypark, the woman who organized the campaign.

I've read some interviews with her, and I don't recall if she has ever seen The Colbert Report. The closest thing I've seen of an answer was 'I know satire. I'm a writer', which isn't true for some folks.

That and many people rallying against are ASIAN people. As an Asian myself, it really reenforces another stereotype of Asians, all thanks to her: That we're uptight.

 

[Octoberist]

The ironic thing is that this whole "movement" has been used to give bigots ammunition against Asian-Americans as overly sensitive and humorless.

People actually believe Suey Park is speaking for Asians at large.

Exactly.

There's an Asian producer Mike Le, who is a producer of K-Town, a 'Jersey Shore' type show about Korean-Americans in LA. The point of the article was he was defending the show BECAUSE it shows Asians in a different light. He knows what kind of a show it is, and he doesn't hide it. But the show also reveal that Asians are like another other race, WITH FLAWS, not just being pigeoned holed by usual archetypes of stoic, nerdy people.

http://www.geekweek.com/2010/10/no-...top-worrying-and-produced-a-reality-show.html

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

That's funny.

An Italian-american show gets attacked for reinforcing sterotypes and an Asian-American show gets attacked for defying stereotypes.

 

[Octoberist]

Is is funny. It just shows how Asian-American activists are so behind, and so counter-intiative. Again, I'm an Asian-American.

I think a better campaign would be that Asian character on Two Broke Girls. I'm not offended by that character but it's just so lazy and easy to do. And I applaud the Walking Dead for having Glen, AND having him hook up with a White Girl. It's like unheard of in American TV.

 

[terry78]

I'm shocked Glen is still alive after all this time. You had him pegged as zombie fodder from the jump but they really gave him **** to do.

 

[Octoberist]

I think his popularity will keep him for a few seasons. I think this current seasons has been the best thus far BECAUSE it's CONSISTENT for once.

 

[SuperT]

I don't like the whole subliminal message around this whole thing where non-people of color are trying to tell people of color what they should and shouldn't be offended by.

That really irks me about this entire thing.

 

[Teelie]

I've seen several asians who are exactly the target of this say it's an overreaction and that it's ridiculous so it's not like it's white people saying it's exaggerated.

 

[Octoberist]

I don't like the whole subliminal message around this whole thing where non-people of color are trying to tell people of color what they should and shouldn't be offended by.

That really irks me about this entire thing.

That's true but this overall has been imploded into a farce due to being overly sensitive woman, who happens to be Asian. I haven't seen one Asian person on twitter who has supported her; me included.

I think the problems lies with the knee-jerk discourse of social media; it becomes a witch hunt. Hell, even Steve Martin.. STEVE MARTIN was attacked for a 'racist joke' he did, with some folks condemning him. Steve Martin, of all people.

 

[SuperT]

Right, but they don't speak for all Asians. If some thought it was offensive, I don't see why their feelings should be any less valid than others that thought it wasn't.

 

[Octoberist]

Right, but they don't speak for all Asians. If some thought it was offensive, I don't see why their feelings should be any less valid than others that thought it wasn't.

Everyone has the right to think what they want to think. It's their right, their freedom. I think the problem lies with the hash tag: #cancelcolbert. That's censorship.

Now we could see it as just as a slogan, but what is deal behind the movement?

Suzy wants Colbert to apologize, but he shouldn't. The original tweet came from Colbert when he was talking about the wrongs of the accepted racism of Native American mascots in American sports and high school in the modern world. The 'ching-chong' was a satirical take on what bigots would say.

Then everything was thrown out of context, and the message was completely lost thanks to this stupid thing. Comedy, especially satire, should never be taken a face value like that.

 

[Octoberist]

I agree, there are so many social injustice in the world today; but there are also misguided attempts at attacking things that are not worth attacking. Then it becomes a rabbit hole. I guess that's my point.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I'm shocked Glen is still alive after all this time. You had him pegged as zombie fodder from the jump but they really gave him **** to do.

Likeable characters last the longest on The Walking Dead.

Game of Thrones takes the opposite approach.