Activists blast 'O'Reilly Factor' Chinatown piece as racist

[riversedge]

Source: AP





Activists blast 'O'Reilly Factor' Chinatown piece as racist

By LYNN ELBER


Oct. 5, 2016 9:14 PM EDT



LOS ANGELES (AP) — Watchdog and activist groups are outraged by a Fox News Channel segment in which an interviewer asked people in New York's Chinatown if he was supposed to bow to greet them, if they were selling stolen goods and if they could "take care of North Korea for us."

Several organizations condemned humorist Jesse Watters' piece on "The O'Reilly Factor," calling it racist and demeaning to Asian-Americans.

"It's 2016. ...............................

At one point in Monday's nearly five-minute segment, an elderly woman's silence in response to a query was paired with a clip from Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein" in which Madeline Kahn shouts, "Speak, speak, why don't you speak?!"






............................................On Wednesday, the Asian Americans Advancing Justice affiliation said it was outraged by the "blatant, racist and offensive stereotypes of Chinese Americans."

"It is unconscionable that a news organization would sanction a segment that laughs at a community of people, including Watters ridiculing elderly Chinese Americans who were limited English-proficient," the group said.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512471986

[Judi Lynn]

1. Sadistic, dishonest, malicious, primitive hatred of people outside their filthy group.

That's the best thing you can say about these people.

And yet they imagine they'd better run for high office.

[JoeOtterbein]

2. Makes me wonder just how evil a creep with a camera can be...?

To question the elderly woman the way the creep did, and then make fun of her is not just wrong, it is clearly evil.

[KT2000]

12. Chinese treat the elderly with respect

and of the entire segment, that was despicable.
My friend who is from China told me, as children they would share an apple with their grandmother. The children would eat the peel and give their grandmother the apple because they wanted her to live a long time. Even after many years in America she goes out of her way to assist the elderly white people when she sees they need help.

That segment made me want to cry for its ugliness.

[racism_sucks]

3. Racist is the nicest thing you can say about it

You know a bit is bad when the best thing you can say about it was that it was racist. Every other aspect of it from the lousy interviewing to the so-called "jokes" was a complete disaster.

[progree]

4. and "sought a demonstration of karate" (ughhh) and Watters "getting a pedicure" (ickkk)

Watters asked people on the street about the presidential race, sought a demonstration of karate and showed footage of him getting a pedicure.

[lib87]

5. He's a comedian? I Mean his face is Laugh Worthy so I Guess...

Smh shame on him and his half ass 'apology' to Asian communities.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

6. I wonder what it's like being a flunky for one of the world's largest douche bags?

Edit to add: just watched the video. Yeah, that's what it is like to be a flunky to one of the world's largest douche bags.

Pat Morita in The Karate Kid was Japanese. Oh never mind.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

7. Found it...

[Jon Fogerty]

8. Gee, Bill O'

and you wonder why Asian Americans vote for Democrats over Republicans?

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. He asks a street vendor if his watches are fakes, followed by a clip of Pat Morita as Mr. Miyagi

saying "JC Penny, two for one" in Karate Kid.

Mind you, Pat Morita's character in Karate Kid is Japanese, not Chinese. The character also happens to be a decorated WWII veteran whose wife and child died in the Manzanar concentration camp.

Haha! What a funny joke, O'Reilly and Jesse Watters!

This racist trash appeared on Fox News. It's nearly unbelievable. There is some small justice, though. Trump is losing the Asian American vote so badly that Asian American voters will play a crucial role in electing Hillary Clinton and probably selecting three or four liberal justices, shaping the country for a generation. Jesse Watters and his racist followers can laugh now, but we'll laugh last, and best.

[area51]

10. Racist fsckers.

"It is unconscionable that a news organization...."

They're not a news organization, they're a rightwing opinion-steering outfit masquerading as news.

[KT2000]

13. +1 !!

[ffr]

11. That's consistent with the GOP message

Republicans don’t care about Asian people.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512471594

Something to do with the GOP's embracing of Donald and his abysmal polling numbers with Asians as a whole.

[KT2000]

14. he regrets if anyone takes offense

is not an apology.
He is ignorant and a fool.
FOX is nothing but a hate group.

[NBachers]

15. I was wincing as I watched that last night. Absolutely deplorable

[riversedge]

16. K and R.

[peasant one]

17. Are there any funny conservative humorists?

I was discussing this with my significant other and we tried to figure out why there is this dearth of comedic conservatives. We came up with these:

1) comedy in general, and wit in specific, seem to require intelligence, or perhaps sophistication is a better word, in thought and speech.

2) most intelligent or sophisticated people tend to be liberal, if not baldly radical. The reason for this, frankly, is that deep and compassionate analysis of social issues leads one rationally to liberal conclusions.

3) There are notable exceptions to this view--William F. Buckley Jr. comes immediately to mind--but these exceptions are typically pundits, industrialists, or politicians using their intelligence to promote an ulterior agenda (an agenda that these conservatives know is not true, fair, or humane).

[Nitram]

19. Only if you're still into potty humor.

Or mother-in-law jokes. "Take my wife. Please, take my wife." Conservative humor is about putting people down, not enlightening them or exposing the human foibles that we all share.

[The2ndWheel]

21. Let's not get too crazy

Comedy is subjective. If you agree with something, you'll probably find it funnier than if you don't agree with it.

[pink-o]

22. A lot of humor comes from poking fun at people, or watching annoying folks get their comeuppance.

And when RW'ers do it, they poke fun at the oppressed so it comes off as mean-spirited and bullying. It's why Ann Coulter failed so miserably at the Rob Lowe Roast. OTOH, Jon Stewart is brilliant as this society's Court Jester, mocking the ruling class and the clueless RW media outlets because we of the 99% relied on him to be our voice. And Jon's jokes started out from a place of righteous anger, boiled down to amusement, so the sincerity shone through all of them.

I personally find Social Satire to be the funniest stuff out there: Big fan of movies like Network, Being There and Harold and Maude. I can't think of too much else that cracks me up as much as that. Plays on words (Puns) possibly come second--and those are pretty bipartisan!

[Nitram]

18. O'Lielly (along with Hannity) both deserve to be tarred with the racist brush.

We need to start publicly labeling blatant racists for what they are, based on their own words and actions.

[Coventina]

20. Saw the coverage of this on Chris Hayes last night.

Just jaw-droppingly horrible.

I don't think it was "overt" racism. I think it was a piece shot and edited by people who have racism so deeply imbedded in them that they don't even see it.