Fox News Outdoes Itself With a Ridiculously Racist Segment About Trump and Asians

[KamaAina]

http://www.motherjones.com/media/2016/10/fox-news-jesse-watters-asian-americans-donald-trump-chinatown

The "O'Reilly Factor" has offered regular racist news segments over the years, but this week, the reliably offensive Fox News show managed to outdo itself when correspondent Jesse Watters ventured down to New York City's Chinatown to discuss Donald Trump and the 2016 election. The segment, which opens with stereotypical Chinese music, is spliced with movie clips featuring Asian actors speaking in exaggerated accents. Watters approaches a number of men and women in the street, some of them elderly residents who do not speak English. He then silently mocks them for their inability to answer his questions—many of which wander from the presidential race to lame caricatures of Asians masquerading as humor....

Toward the end of the clip, when O'Reilly said it appeared that most of the people understood the dynamics of the current election, Watters laughed: "You thought people knew what was going on?"

"They're such a polite people," he said, invoking yet another stereotype. "They won't walk away or tell me to get out of here. They just sit there and don't say nothing!"

The segment is actually painful to watch, but nonetheless provides an excellent example of why Asian American support for Republican candidates continues to erode.

[Else You Are Mad]

1. What. The. Fuck.

That is so utterly offensive.