Chuck Grassley Congratulates Korean American Judicial Nominee: 'Your People' Have A Good Work Ethic

[bluewater]

Source: Huffington Post

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Wednesday told Lucy Koh, a Korean American judicial nominee, that her Korean background reminds him of his daughter-in-law telling him that Koreans have "a hard work ethic" and "can make a lot out of nothing."

"So I congratulate you and your people," Grassley told Koh.

He made his comment to Koh, who is President Joe Biden's nominee to a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, at the start of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Grassley is the ranking Republican on the panel.

Koh simply replied, "Thank you."

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chuck-grassley-korean-american-people-lucy-koh_n_615ddc73e4b0896dd1ac1137

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And just to spell it out, when a bigot like Grassley praises "your people" for having a great work ethic, it means they feel another ethnic group does not. It's a racism daily double.


But Judge Koh exhibited admirable restraint.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

1. Racists don't believe they are racist even when they are being very racist.

The whole concept has never been taught to them and many have an intellectual grasp that apparently does not extend that high even in later life.

[YoshidaYui]

2. "Your people "

"you over there.... cause were separating you and you and you ,.. because you are different... Not sure what to do with you Yoshida cause you are only half asian i guess you can be stuck with the pacific islanders.... they need people""

[Thomas Hurt]

3. and Grassley does the Aryan/Fascist people proud too....a hole.

[ananda]

4. Yep, this is a dig at Black people. Code talk.

My racist uncle does that too.

[Ford_Prefect]

5. Chuck Grassley speaking in tongues, surely a sign of the beast.

[Steelrolled]

6. The idea that a complement of the Korean culture is

some kind of racist attack on blacks is BS.

The simple response by Koh to the complement was gracious (what else would one say?).

Just my opinion.

[catsudon]

18. i know

that's like admitting the stereo type of the other race not working hard. they themselves are perpetuating this racism.

[onetexan]

31. Yup, good ol model minority crap

[soryang]

7. Absolutely clueless

you'd think that politicians would have a PR or EEO type on their staff to keep the public from finding out how ignorant they really are.

[Evolve Dammit]

8. Yeah. I think he's clueless. She's an AMERICAN, Snake in the Grassly. Is he that fucking stupid?

[GPV]

9. J.F.C!

[madaboutharry]

10. Ugh.

Am I allowed to call him a stupid hick?

Asking for a friend.

[monkeyman1]

19. you can call the pos anything you want !

[onetexan]

32. It fits

[Hugh_Lebowski]

11. Complaining about this is being pretty nit-picky IMHO

But I allow for the argument that since I'm a white male, I probably don't know shit about such matters.

I'm obviously in the minority based on above comments, but I tend to keep my powder dry for what I perceive as being actually egregiously offensive.

Also F*** Grassley for all sorts of reasons generally.

[ybbor]

12. I hear she's also "well-spoken"

How demeaning!

Oh in case it was lost on some.

[packman]

13. saw Grassley today ranting and raving about voting laws

favoring the Democrats and how Dems run to the Supreme court to change laws. He said voting laws need to be in the hands of states and local jurisdictions and the federal gov has no right to interfere with those local laws.

In other words, typical Republican old white man

[totodeinhere]

14. And this guy has announced for reelection.

And if the Republicans were to retake control of the Senate and he wins reelection he would be third in line for the presidency.

[Hortensis]

15. And we commiserate with her that he has to be one of our people also.

All societies have their duds, but seldom with so many gone gone blind to even basic boundaries.

[oasis]

16. What a dumbass!

[Joinfortmill]

17. Grassley has lost most of his mind.

[monkeyman1]

20. should be in a old people's home by now ! he's older than dirt !

[argyl]

30. He was first elected to the Senate in 1980.If he's reelected in 2022 he'll be 89 years old.

That would be his eighth term. He'd be 95 y.o.if he finished it.
Fuck, he already looks like he's butting up on
100 y.o. What if he wins and goes for reelection in 2028?
This is just ridiculous.

[bucolic_frolic]

21. Patronizing old crank

He won't vote for her.

[TygrBright]

22. See? No anti-Asian racism here! n/t

[Botany]

23. They make damn good kim chee and Bulgogi too.

[Fla Dem]

24. Clear inference that other ethinic groups don't necessairily measure up.

[Martin68]

25. Chuck Grassley's "people" are a gang of racist morons.

[Wingus Dingus]

26. He's eleventy-jillion years old. This is the sort of thing super-old people

pop off with. Like Bill Burr said, sometimes you just live too long, the norms and acceptable behavior of your time have all changed and most of your peers are gone.

[Deminpenn]

33. Yep

Doubt there was any malice in Grassley's remark, just that times have changed.

[whistler162]

27. Shades pf Harry Norgan's first

appearance on MASH! YEAH I am not going to link to it.

[FM123]

28. "you and your people"

WTF????
I would love to him a swift kick!

[drray23]

29. How can you be a senator

and not even be minimaly aware of the way this sounds ? In general, starting with "your people" is a good hint thats its going to go downhill from there. Maybe racists sujffer from something akin to Dunning-Kruger effect where dumb people think they are smart. Those racists are so out there they do not realize they are uttering racist shit.