LONG DUK DONG

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?

i was interested in how something like that happened from a journalism/editor standpoint and people took the thread and ran w/ it?

maybe we should start a new board just for racism discussions

any place where i dont have to look at movie polls

grady: i love racism. noted.

also - idk - when the jeremy lin stuff was happening DJP said that he felt racism against black people was being overlooked - and maybe I just feel more comfortable discussing this stuff in a thread devoted to it

Oh dude that's not at all what I meant when I said that! I was noting the weird sensation of seeing a situation where American racism seemed to behave like a constrained resource; it literally felt like there was a reservoir out of which racism was being doled and stuff that used to be spread mostly around Obama suddenly focused very heavily and intently on Jeremy Lin for like two weeks.

I wanna jokingly be all "NOW who's the racist?!" but the answer is still frogbs

hah okay DJP sorry for misudnerstanding you

anyway whiney the answer is I would prefer to talk about this stuff and how it affects me itt, if that's okay with you

I said "oic" like 20 posts ago dogg

alright dude, but thanks for butting in with your opinion anyway

It wasn't a real opinion, but continue to be outraged by it

Didn't mean to hijack yer thread, carry on :(

it's cool brah

http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

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

omg

*gong noise*

i wonder if llodra can make love with a korean girl