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Sorry Jay, but I'm not seeing it. How was Owen's post racist?
I am not seeing it either. Please explain the logic behind it that this is 'racist'.
For someone and a blog that constantly says the right is reaching, I would love to know how this isn't reaching.
His "fortune cookie" originally read in stereotyped pidgin Chinese-English. I didn't keep my original browser window open, but it's been edited to correct the "Confucius says"-style syntax. I'll update my post to reflect that.
Ok - so rosie o'donnell does a bad accent/imitation of a china man - in front of a nationally televised audience of millions - that is ok. Did a search of your postings and you have nothing mentioning her.
Owen has a fortune cookie post up that is corrected immediately after offending you and you doing a post on it that doesn't even accurately describe the offense and you still rip him and leave the inaccurate post up.
Nope - no double standard here - nothing to see - keep walking - keep moving on....
Google never forgets. It said "Always be suspicious of government official who seek to remove themselves from public scrutiny." You know, the funny mix-ups of Engrish.
Don't fret, Boots and Kittens is already on the job and all over it like white on rice! Have a little parody with your morning coffee.
So he was missing an 'S' and you through a fit about it and call it racist.
Let's see - In the last week on this site I have thin skinned several times (over the POTP show) because I defended peoples free speech rights. - Owen forgets an 's' and you call him racist.... little thin skinned don't you think.
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Thanks for doing that Google cache search, John. I was half afraid I'd lost my mind, and I've got this, you know, job where I couldn't Google it myself.
Clint, it wasn't a stray missing s--Owen was purposely doing the pejorative stereotyped Asian character, I assume to riff on the "fortune cookie theme." Racial humor is not actually funny to me, and I was raised to confront racists--even unconscious ones--when I could. Good for Owen for changing the post--something I noted in my post as soon as I saw the change--but bad for him for doing it in the first place.
Oh, and Clint, here's the difference: I read Owen Robinson, but I don't watch Rosie O'Donnell.
Okay, bonus difference: Rosie O'Donnell isn't on TV complaining about other people being uncivil.
How ever you sleep at night Jay
I don't sleep. Haven't you been paying attention to the timestamps on my posts? Duh.
Jay,
I can see how you thought I was being unconsciously or consciously racist. It did read like that. In truth, however, it was a simple typo. I write my posts before writing the titles. I wrote it and given that it was a single sentence, I thought the title matched. I know I won't convince my detractors, but only one person truly knows the truth here... and it's me.
It is interesting how you jumped to your conclusion, however. It did not appear to even cross your mind that it could have been a simple mistake. Is this indicative of some predispositions - dare I say "prejudices" - you have regarding conservatives?
Yeah, had you called it "Deep Thought" or something, I wouldn't have even noticed, I bet.
And we were just talking about how context is important ... and someone (Patrick? Clint?) didn't seem to think it mattered. Good on you for fixing it.
At one point Kristy squints up his eyes, throws on a pair of glasses, stick some fake buck teeth in his mouth, and does a horrible stereotypical--some would say racist--Asian accent.
You missed an "s," too. You also misspelled Krusty. What unconscious message were you trying to send?
Hoisted with my own petard. (Better my own than someone else's, I always say.)
Again, context.
OK, so it's official? Owen left off two 's's by accident and accidentally sounded like an old Jerry Lewis joke. Let's talk about erecting flag poles instead!
While we're talking civility and beating things to death, I have a question for Owen. I'm not allowed to even visit B&S, so I can't do this there. It's been 166 days since you can claimed "John has posted under half a dozen different names and he was not always obvous about it." Care to back that up? Or retract it and let by-gones be by-gones?
I guess we all just can't get along, Rodney.
Wait a second...I thought y'all were sworn nemeses.
Wait a second...I thought y'all were sworn nemeses.
Yeah, but there's also a mutual respect. Like Spider-man and Dr. Octopus, but he only has two arms.
Good thing he didn't post the word "turkey". You would of jumped to the conclusion that he was attempting a post in "jive" and labeled him a racist towards blacks.
Quite a dialogue here. Anyone feel just a bit self-absorbed?
Quite a dialogue here. Anyone feel just a bit self-absorbed?
Hi. You must be new to blogs. Stick around for a while and you'll get the hang of it. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask!
More bad news. "Ah, so" is Japanese, not Chinese. And fortune cookies were created by Japanese in California, too.
Yeah, John, Jerry Lewis did the schtick based on caricature of Hirohito. But, in the Zeitgeist of American culture, that "me so solly" bit has become the equivalent of blackface for all Asian cultures.
George Mitchell, on the other hand, is comedy gold.
I have to ask...what is up with the "Playboy Store" ad (or whatever it is) at the end of the comments?
FP, Haloscan has started sticking Google ads in comments (I've seen the Playboy ad at Fred's, even), and I have no control over them. The Google ads in my sidebar I can control a little.
I don't mind, because it keeps Haloscan free.
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