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i think the deal with big trouble in little china is that it's trying to reflect a specifically asian approach to fantasy, so the characters are borrowed from wuxia films and literature and chinese supernatural tales, etc. but yeah, it definitely slides into charlie chan/exotica territory. difference between actually being something and copying/spoofing that thing from "outside".

i've never found it particularly offensive, despite its many obvious stereotypes, but maybe i need to rethink it a bit.

it's not like white people come off great in Big Trouble In Little China.

http://www.salon.com/2012/02/14/interview_with_my_bully_when_i_confronted_my_bully_about_racism/singleton/

rob schneider plays a chinese man in 'i now pronounce you chuck and larry'? welp.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc3GBDJ2sK0

http://i.imgur.com/COyD1.jpg

what the fucking fuck

this shouldn't be surprising since rob was the bobby lee of SNL.

what the fucking fuck

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he also plays a grotesquely caricatured hawaiian in 50 first dates

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/dailypix/2004/Feb/13/tgif1ula_b.jpg

Isn't every Schneider role in a Sandler movie a racial caricature of some kind?

I feel like any outrage over Rob Schneider isn't probably well-placed these days

that last pic doesn't do justice to the blackface aspect of the performance

Isn't every Schneider role in a Sandler movie a racial caricature of some kind?

i dunno, maybe? i don't see many adam sandler movies.

http://www.accesshollywood.com/rob-schneider-hoping-to-tackle-racial-stereotypes-in-respectful-way-on-rob_article_58941

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRL0QXLFGV4

that clip was so bad that it was actually elevated by racism.

wow that show is really _that_ bad, isn't it?

the brunette appears to be delivering her lines through a codeine haze

that makes me think more of her, like this will be a "I was on drugs and accepted bad roles and now my career is in a happy place" will be in the future

the laugh track is

fucking hell

that is a beautiful piece of free verse. i am not kidding.

http://shanghaiist.com/2012/03/15/french_tennis_pro_michael_llodra_ap.php

rench tennis player Michaël Llodra (ranked No. 41 in the world) recently pulled off a Vincent Chin-esque double-whammy of racial insensitivity, after he reportedly screamed "Fucking Chinese!" at a Korean-American woman in attendance during his first round match against Ernests Gulbis at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California. He has since taken to his website to apologize in a classically non-apologetic fashion, by qualifying that he is not a racist, and that he lost his temper because the Indian Wells court being uncooperative, and also because tournament organizers scheduled his matches poorly.

Vincent Chin-esque? Hmmm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Vincent_Chin

the reference is to the fact that the people who killed vincent chin thought he was japanese (the murderers were detroit auto workers)

I know the case, but it seemed strange that the writer would think screaming a racial epithet is similar to what happened to Vincent Chin.

well here the opposing tennis player was korean american

You mean the woman in the audience (Gulbis is Latvian)

haha yeah, that kind of makes it worse

random yelling at audience members is... random

insightful observation

tennis matches are kind of surreal that way; you have to be quiet, but they're all fired up and ready to yell obscenities at the line judge (or random audience members, whatever)

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/tennis-busted-racquet/llodra-apology-love-chinese-totally-love-chinese-girl-194815124.html

hoo boy

The most cringeworthy thing about the Colbert Report is when he slips into his 'self-consciously' racist Chinese bit. The joke is that he's being overly racist! Isn't that funny!?

For that matter, pretty much any and all self-consiously ott racism really gets on my nerves. It's lazy, it's not funny, and it's only not-racism in a very specific context.

tbf Colbert's entire act is that he's being self-consciously conservative and his humor in-character is... oh god too much meta

Yeah but when he brings the Chinese joke guy up, it's just turning up the tasteless level to 11.

I've never witnessed this (stop watching Colbert regularly some time ago) but one thing that has always REAAAALLLY pissed me off about the Daily Show was its constant "lol furriners" schtick (eg, "here's a clip of something weird going on in another country! Listen to me make silly jokes about how strange they are in the voiceover!" Awful).

agreed on all counts

It bothered me when David Letterman used to do that (foreigners who don't speak English well and fat people = comedy gold), but he seems to have stopped quite a while ago. I wonder if it's because he got too many complaints, got mature, or realized that his life has become joke fodder too.

pretty sure it's a sign of the times more than anything

I am very relieved to find out that Michael Llodra does not have a racist penis

http://i.imgur.com/Smq59.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/rCa4C.gif

is it racist that ILX has a separate racism thread just for asian racism?

please explain?

this thread has turned into a dumping ground for racist stuff we see in the media, just like the other thread has turned into a dumping ground for racist stuff we see in the media... it's the same thread

I thought I was precluded from talking about explicitly racist stuff in the other thread by thread police, i.e. you, and you haven't started a general 'this is racist' thread, so

oic

also, why did you start a separate jeremy lin thread?