Backlash after "racist" Stephen Colbert tweet

SuperT said:
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.
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Without an Asian in the limelight defending Colbert, it does seem like they are speaking for all Asians.
 
So we're expected to take Suey Park as speaking for all asians, except when some asians say it isn't offending them and understand the context it was originally in, then they are not speaking for all asians.

Do I have it right?
 
Teelie said:
So we're expected to take Suey Park as speaking for all asians, except when some asians say it isn't offending them and understand the context it was originally in, then they are not speaking for all asians.

Do I have it right?
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Well Suey Park had some support in the beginning so from a social media stand point it seemed like she might have the Asian community behind her.

Not everyone would assume that but alot of people are quick to generalize without an example to counter the generalization.
 
The counter is the asians who said they weren't offended. Or are they being minimalized to make a one-sided point?
 
Changing gears a bit, Salon.com was one of the few mainstream media outlets (and definitely the biggest one) that sided with the #CancelColbert cause when it first emerged, and boy did they get pounded for it. Now they're backtracking or trying to downplay their previous support. I definitely lost respect for them. That's what happens when you jump on the kneejerk express.
 
Suey and her little band of followers think that they ARE talking for all Asians, and they've attacked any one who disagrees with them and if you happen to be an Asain-American who disagrees, then they call you a traitor and cry about the lack of solidarity.

The problem here is that people think that EVERY opinion is a valid one and that being offended is a right to justify hyper-reactions. I'm sorry but that is just not true. It's a lie brought about by the "every one is special" mentality. Sure, everyone has the right to think and feel and to express those thoughts, but that does NOT make it valid nor correct.
 
Yep, pretty much. Anyway people caught on and she's being sidelined for her irrelevance. She's now doing some weird stuff with her Twitter, renaming it Hulk Stewy Park and making every status in all-caps. I think she's having a breakdown. Obviously she has some real issues from her past, and this is her misguided outlet on how to deal with them. I actually feel sorry for her. If she gets ganged up on now, as tempting as it is to label it poetic justice, it's not. It's just a continuation of the twitter lynch-mob mentality.
 
Teelie said:
The counter is the asians who said they weren't offended. Or are they being minimalized to make a one-sided point?
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The problem is a vocal minority can get more limelight than a silent majority, so it creates an illusion that the vocal minority represents the majority.
 
JJJ's Ulcer said:
Yep, pretty much. Anyway people caught on and she's being sidelined for her irrelevance. She's now doing some weird stuff with her Twitter, renaming it Hulk Stewy Park and making every status in all-caps. I think she's having a breakdown. Obviously she has some real issues from her past, and this is her misguided outlet on how to deal with them. I actually feel sorry for her. If she gets ganged up on now, as tempting as it is to label it poetic justice, it's not. It's just a continuation of the twitter lynch-mob mentality.
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I don't want her to have a breakdown but I would like her to realize her activism needs to be better directed in the future.

She didn't weaken bigotry, she gave them ammo.
 
Spider-Who? said:
Suey and her little band of followers think that they ARE talking for all Asians, and they've attacked any one who disagrees with them and if you happen to be an Asain-American who disagrees, then they call you a traitor and cry about the lack of solidarity.

The problem here is that people think that EVERY opinion is a valid one and that being offended is a right to justify hyper-reactions. I'm sorry but that is just not true. It's a lie brought about by the "every one is special" mentality. Sure, everyone has the right to think and feel and to express those thoughts, but that does NOT make it valid nor correct.
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That's so true that it hurts.

In turn, it causes self-entitlement and being so self righteous.
 
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JJJ's Ulcer said:
Yep, pretty much. Anyway people caught on and she's being sidelined for her irrelevance. She's now doing some weird stuff with her Twitter, renaming it Hulk Stewy Park and making every status in all-caps. I think she's having a breakdown. Obviously she has some real issues from her past, and this is her misguided outlet on how to deal with them. I actually feel sorry for her. If she gets ganged up on now, as tempting as it is to label it poetic justice, it's not. It's just a continuation of the twitter lynch-mob mentality.
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I don't think she deserves to be ganged up on but she does need to see she's not the representative of everyone who happens to be asian either.
 
For the record, has she SEEN The Colbert Report? I can't find anything on that. She kinda skips around that, it feels like. As if it's irrelevant.
 
I have read she has not but it wasn't directly quoted from her. I kind of doubt she has, or does not realize it is straight satire meant to mock the subject at hand.
 
JJJ's Ulcer said:
Yep, pretty much. Anyway people caught on and she's being sidelined for her irrelevance. She's now doing some weird stuff with her Twitter, renaming it Hulk Stewy Park and making every status in all-caps. I think she's having a breakdown. Obviously she has some real issues from her past, and this is her misguided outlet on how to deal with them. I actually feel sorry for her. If she gets ganged up on now, as tempting as it is to label it poetic justice, it's not. It's just a continuation of the twitter lynch-mob mentality.
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It's some kind of Twitter thing...

#CancelColbert Prompts Suey Park and Other Feminists on Twitter To Temporarily Become Dudebros After Sexist, Racist Backlash And It's Awesome
 
Wow, so edgy and provocative of her. She definitely isn't compensating for anything. :o
 
JJJ's Ulcer said:
Wow, so edgy and provocative of her. She definitely isn't compensating for anything. :o
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Yep. When I Googled her name after reading your comment, I was thinking her account as hacked. Then, when I saw that article, I went, "Oh." :dry:
 
She complained about the very thing she is doing now. I'd call her out for being sexist against males by mocking them but I think it would just turn into reverse-reverse sexism.

And besides, there are *******s who kind of prompted that response anyways (the ones making the threats). I understand the satire too, it's just unfortunate how it's all come about.
 
The hypocrissy and lack of self-awareness is amusing. I actually saw one of her more vocal twitter defenders use the phrase "*********" to describe Colbert's defenders. If we're taking victimization politics and overly-PC kneejerkery to its extreme, then "*********" could be construed to be a veiled insult towards homosexuals. So anyone can play this game and it's a damn lazy, cynical way to seek attention. There's real racism out there to fight. It's too bad she'd rather just promote herself.

Plus, I won't even get into the sexism double-standards of attacking activist men as mindless, muscle-bound "dude-bros"....
 
Her attacks on male activist aren't even insightful, just gym jokes.

I think she's stretched her 15 minutes long enough. Time to go back to obscurity where she belongs.
 
I'm not sure she even made it to 5 minutes before burning out.
 
It really is all about her trying to create viral trends by peddling outrage. That's the problem with twitter activitists. They're always self-promoting or looking for new causes that will get them attention or followers. And they want to be offended or else they lack purpose, so they activitely search for issues and often overreach and expose themselves to mockery. Like that ridiculous #banbossy stuff. Twitter can be a tool for good (see Turkey or other repressive regimes where citizens use it to organize and protest against abuse of power), but it seems first world rich people use it as a tool for me-me-me narcissism. Someone calling you "bossy" is not your Arab Spring.
 
I will say though that twitter does have a bulls---t immune system.

If you don't come correct, there will be a flood of critical tweets working as antibodies.

I think the quick backpedaling from Suey Park proves that to an extent.
 
Teelie said:
I don't think she deserves to be ganged up on but she does need to see she's not the representative of everyone who happens to be asian either.
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The way I see it, there's a balance between pointing something out, and doing nothing EXCEPT b***h about stuff you don't like. If you claim you're an activist, then BE ACTIVE. Go out and actually be the change, instead of complaining about how unfair the world is wah wah wah.
 
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