I am glad I have joined the deep-breathing-counting-till-100-when-you-are-so-angry-you-want-to-rip-someones-face-off club with JK and Ashwini. Or else, I would have called Emil a stupid jerk. I would have told him it is ridiculous to think that someone is going to come after Asians with knives in their hands ala Norman Bates, just because Shaq made fun of Yao (who supposedly represents the Asian-Americans, though he is a puppet of the Chinese Basketball Association). I would have also told him that constant race-baiting like his columns is what frustrates really sane people into believing that all Asians have to be inferiority-complexed, whiny, cry-babyish fools. I would have also told him to shut the fuck up and shove his columns where the sun don't shine. But I didn't now, did I?
AsianWeek.com: Opinion: Shaqs Taunt Prelude to Hate Crimes?
Shaqs words were hardly self-mocking fun. They were taunts. Taunts are preludes to hate crimes. Over the last few years there have been 400 to 500 hate crimes against APAs in America, according to the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium. Two of the hate crimes since Sept. 11 were murders; and almost all of them stem from the same well that produced Ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-so.Update: Does Emil-the-dumbest-Asian-of-them-all really think that the murders after 9/11 happened because of stupid racial taunts and did not have anything do with the fact that the 9/11 terrorists were all Arabs, who look very much like most Asians? Posted by shanti at January 24, 2003 1:18 PM
Thats not exactly an innocent, Your mama wears combat boots.
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