If the Oscars were all about diversity, why the crude Asian joke?

tc328 · 03-01-2016, 09:26 AM

SMH

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...at-asian-joke/

Verbiage · 03-01-2016, 09:34 AM

I'll go ahead and comment now before this thread gets closed, but given that stereotypes have life breathed into them by the individuals of each ethnicity that personify them daily (I'm black, for reference), this is honestly just a case of circumstantial satire that happened on a national stage, albeit tactless.

Obviously due to the fact that the stage was national, no blacks/Hispanics/Asians being nominated and underscoring this fact doesn't do this scenario any good. But this is nothing new.

Just my $0.02.

jtodd_fl · 03-01-2016, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Verbiage

I'll go ahead and comment now before this thread gets closed, but given that stereotypes have life breathed into them by the individuals of each ethnicity that personify them daily (I'm black, for reference), this is honestly just a case of circumstantial satire that happened on a national stage, albeit tactless.

Obviously due to the fact that the stage was national, no blacks/Hispanics/Asians being nominated and underscoring this fact doesn't do this scenario any good. But this is nothing new.

Just my $0.02.

Also, because he is controversial.

Read this... he definitely did not single anyone out!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/f...monologue.html

Verbiage · 03-01-2016, 09:37 AM

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Also, because he is controversial.

Read this... he definitely did not single anyone out!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/f...monologue.html

Can't believe he's 51. I love that dude, man.

But pop culture will zero in on whatever components serve the bias best. God I fucking hate society, most times.

tc328 · 03-01-2016, 09:37 AM

As an asian american, this nonsense is offensive in many levels.

You come out to make the world better but yet you use asian innocent kids to make fun of

jtodd_fl · 03-01-2016, 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by tc328

As an asian american, this nonsense is offensive in many levels.

You come out to make the world better but yet you use asian innocent kids to make fun of

I think every race/nationality/ethnicity will find something to be offended by, if that is what they are looking for. Or, they can treat it as satire, farce... as it was intended.

I just decided to Netflix and chill with the wife.

Verbiage · 03-01-2016, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by jtodd_fl

I think every race/nationality/ethnicity will find something to be offended by, if that is what they are looking for. Or, they can treat it as satire, farce... as it was intended.

I just decided to Netflix and chill with the wife.

Same, can't recall the last time I watched the Oscars, myself. I never cared for them.

And no, it's not because I'm black.

M3 Number 86 · 03-01-2016, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by tc328

As an asian american, this nonsense is offensive in many levels.

You come out to make the world better but yet you use asian innocent kids to make fun of

As an Asian American, I didn't even know the oscars were this week. I thought it was already over months ago when will and jada made all that fuss (heard through the grapevine).

Do Asians even care about celebrities? Didn't know we did. I know I don't give a rats ass about them.

jtodd_fl · 03-01-2016, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by M3 Number 86

As an Asian American, I didn't even know the oscars were this week. I thought it was already over months ago when will and jada made all that fuss (heard through the grapevine).

Do Asians even care about celebrities? Didn't know we did. I know I don't give a rats ass about them.

No, because you are too busy being smart at math and making consumer electronics!

Wait... too soon, op?

Verbiage · 03-01-2016, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by M3 Number 86

As an Asian American, I didn't even know the oscars were this week. I thought it was already over months ago when will and jada made all that fuss (heard through the grapevine).

Do Asians even care about celebrities? Didn't know we did. I know I don't give a rats ass about them.

Make a spreadsheet with logic and macros that will automate celebrity marriages and debauchery.

Verbiage · 03-01-2016, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by jtodd_fl

No, because you are too busy being smart at math and making consumer electronics!

Wait... too soon, op?

jtodd_fl · 03-01-2016, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Verbiage

Make a spreadsheet with logic and macros that will automate celebrity marriages and debauchery.

MMMMM... automated debauchery. I think I like.

tc328 · 03-01-2016, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by jtodd_fl

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Originally Posted by M3 Number 86

As an Asian American, I didn't even know the oscars were this week. I thought it was already over months ago when will and jada made all that fuss (heard through the grapevine).

Do Asians even care about celebrities? Didn't know we did. I know I don't give a rats ass about them.

No, because you are too busy being smart at math and making consumer electronics!

Wait... too soon, op?

Oh no u didnt.....

jtodd_fl · 03-01-2016, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by tc328

Oh no u didnt.....

Very nice... although, were you making a joke by using a stereotypical black trope?

I LOVE IT!

Verbiage · 03-01-2016, 09:56 AM

Okay, maybe this thread won't be closed after all.

tc328 · 03-01-2016, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by jtodd_fl

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Originally Posted by tc328

Oh no u didnt.....

Very nice... although, were you making a joke by using a stereotypical black trope?

I LOVE IT!

Haha...I guess we all racist

Verbiage · 03-01-2016, 10:00 AM

Long live Chris Rock. Proof that if you can't laugh at yourself, you don't deserve to laugh at all.

jtodd_fl · 03-01-2016, 10:00 AM

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Haha...I guess we all racist

Nah. Just lots of people have reasons to make us get mad at shit that doesn't really matter. Keeps us distracted from attacking the real source of the problem, I wish I had all the answers, but the mock outrage factory that we deal with now.

1MOREMOD · 03-01-2016, 10:00 AM

Not me I don't see color, yah heard

RedlinePSI · 03-01-2016, 10:01 AM

Opportunity for roles is one thing, but this controversy is about winning awards. Can somebody please tell me what movies/roles everybody thinks should have been nominated? Beast's of no nation was not eligible. I heard Will Smith was not very good, to put it nicely, in Concussion. I didn't see/hear much about Straight Outta Compton so i'm open to hearing how that was, and who might have been so amazing in it. I'm sure there are others, but literally every time this comes up, those are the only 3 anybody mentions, black or white.

Verbiage · 03-01-2016, 10:01 AM

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Not me I don't see color, yah heard

Fucking aliens.

1MOREMOD · 03-01-2016, 10:03 AM

I do suspect judging is swayed by topic, spotlight because about raping priests got more attention than it deserved. But when it's about a black issue fucks are not given.

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RedlinePSI Lieutenant 129 Rep 502 Posts Drives: Something else Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: LI, NY iTrader: (0)	Opportunity for roles is one thing, but this controversy is about winning awards. Can somebody please tell me what movies/roles everybody thinks should have been nominated? Beast's of no nation was not eligible. I heard Will Smith was not very good, to put it nicely, in Concussion. I didn't see/hear much about Straight Outta Compton so i'm open to hearing how that was, and who might have been so amazing in it. I'm sure there are others, but literally every time this comes up, those are the only 3 anybody mentions, black or white.
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