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Posted by UnisMuiMui on 04-19-2003 06:43 PM:

Asian Americans protest dog-eating racial jokes on top US TV talk show

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Asian American groups asked sponsors of US television's Tonight Show to protest alleged "inflammatory" racial stereotypes that depict Koreans as dog eaters.

A coalition of Asian-American groups was poised send a letter to the nightly to sponsors of the nightly show hosted by comic Jay Leno (news - Y! TV), which is syndicated across the globe, asking them to take action.

The move to crack down on alleged slurs came after the show made a skit showing North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il apparently eating a dog on a broadcast on February 11.

"We are asking sponsors what they intend to do about this offensive racial characterisation and to pressure producers to stop peddling this misleading image of Koreans," said Peter Choe of the Korean American Coalition (KAC).

Letters were being sent to sponsors, including high-profile corporations such as Citibank, Daimler-Chrysler, Honda, MasterCard, Subway fast food restaurants and Japanese car maker Toyota, asking them to speak out.

The protest was mounted by the KAC , the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium and nine other groups after Leno allegedly refused to meet group representatives to discuss their concerns.

The NBC network's response to the groups' complaints was "inadequate" and disappointing, Choe said, adding that the executives appeared not to take their concerns seriously.

The Asian-American groups said NBC honcho Alan Wurtzel responded by saying the joke fell "well within the broad parameters of what The Tonight Show regularly does."


source: yahoo news

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Posted by Spartan on 04-25-2003 05:10 AM:

You people can't take a fucking joke. I hate people like that. So sensitive and crap. SO WHAT? WE EAT DOGS. PROTESTING IT DOESN'T CHANGE IT. STEREOTYPING IS EVERYWHERE. ACCEPT IT. NO ONE IS EXEMPT FROM IT. IT WILL EXIST AS LONG AS PEOPLE GROUP THEMSELVES.

Irish are drunks, italians are mobsters, indians run seven elevens, anyone form the south is a red neck inbred hick who goes on springer, chinese eat monkey brains and chicken feet, french people are cowards and smell and are hairy and... maybe that's enough.

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Posted by Crazydeb8ter on 04-25-2003 05:48 AM:

Agreed. Let us not become like the victimization kiddies that are ever present in the African American community.

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Posted by Spuzzter on 05-06-2003 05:10 AM:

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Agreed. Let us not become like the victimization kiddies that are ever present in the African American community.


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Posted by Crazydeb8ter on 05-06-2003 05:20 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by Spuzzter


yes? you wish to comment?

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Posted by .aS.|5p!7f!|23 on 05-06-2003 02:58 PM:

well thats kinda racist but i agree.

Posted by Spuzzter on 05-08-2003 05:26 AM:

quote:
yes? you wish to comment?


Oh yeah it just hit me when reading that post that the emoticon was appropriate. I'm not sure why. But now that you asked..

What do you mean exactly by victimization kiddies? Those that support affirmative action/reparations? I'd like a bit of clarification.

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Posted by Spuzzter on 05-08-2003 05:30 AM:

Oh yes, and I ever so humbly beg to be worth your time.

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Posted by †ìÿgü on 05-08-2003 09:10 AM:

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[i]goes on springer, chinese eat monkey brains and chicken feet, french people are cowards and smell and are hairy and... maybe that's enough.

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Lol I could'nt have put it any more eloquently than that!

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Posted by Half on 05-08-2003 11:43 PM:

Yahoo News should consider improvements grammar wise.

Posted by Ladi Jay on 05-10-2003 01:42 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by Spartan
You people can't take a fucking joke. I hate people like that. So sensitive and crap. SO WHAT? WE EAT DOGS. PROTESTING IT DOESN'T CHANGE IT. STEREOTYPING IS EVERYWHERE. ACCEPT IT. NO ONE IS EXEMPT FROM IT. IT WILL EXIST AS LONG AS PEOPLE GROUP THEMSELVES.

Irish are drunks, italians are mobsters, indians run seven elevens, anyone form the south is a red neck inbred hick who goes on springer, chinese eat monkey brains and chicken feet, french people are cowards and smell and are hairy and... maybe that's enough.




actually, if you get it every day and people DO say it with offense, you'd protest too... trust me, it's not taken lightly when it's pointed at you... and you don't eat dogs... I've gotten that "joke" a lot of times and it's not very nice. I take it to heart too.

Posted by Spartan on 05-12-2003 03:06 AM:

I'm sure the tonight show meant it in a mean way.

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Posted by not ajy 2k on 05-12-2003 04:09 AM:

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Originally posted by Ladi Jay
actually, if you get it every day and people DO say it with offense, you'd protest too... trust me, it's not taken lightly when it's pointed at you... and you don't eat dogs... I've gotten that "joke" a lot of times and it's not very nice. I take it to heart too.


people come up to me every day and call me juice, and say juice is trippin on shrooms. i dont cry and sue them

Posted by princesszinza on 05-12-2003 04:23 AM:

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Originally posted by not ajy 2k
people come up to me every day and call me juice, and say juice is trippin on shrooms. i dont cry and sue them


yeah, but that's totally different cuz they're saying that because you look and act a certain way. The dogeating thing is more offensive cuz it has nothing to do with the individual person. It's strictly racial. Btw what do you do that makes people call you juice and say your trippin.....you must look pretty spaced sometimes

Posted by Ladi Jay on 05-12-2003 08:20 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by not ajy 2k
people come up to me every day and call me juice, and say juice is trippin on shrooms. i dont cry and sue them


well good for you... some people would rather act upon it so it doesn't happen again then sit back and let it happen.

Posted by KeN VeRsUs RyU on 05-12-2003 09:50 PM:

ignorance like that might lead to more ignorance if it hasn't already. for example someone might think all middle eastern countries are iraqi or all koreans are north korean communists.

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Posted by not ajy 2k on 05-12-2003 10:01 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Ladi Jay
well good for you... some people would rather act upon it so it doesn't happen again then sit back and let it happen.


i dont know what you're trying to get at, i'm not a pacifist. When something bothers me, or someone comes up to me and calls me something that i resent, i tell them. I dont bitch out and let it happen over and over again. So you cant stand there, feel sorry for your self and blame it on "America's Culture". Your just scapegoating something because all of them can not stand up for themselves. Christ, what the fuck happened to people having balls.

Posted by princesszinza on 05-12-2003 11:57 PM:

quote:
Christ, what the fuck happened to people having balls.



I agree with you there. I hate when people decide they're victims and whine and don't stand up and complain. But in your situation it sounds more like friendly teasing than anything malicious. In the dogeating situation I still maintain that's worse cuz it's a really stupid racial stereotype. In your case I think maybe you shouldn't come to school looking so faded

Posted by Alchemist on 05-24-2003 10:49 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by princesszinza
yeah, but that's totally different cuz they're saying that because you look and act a certain way. The dogeating thing is more offensive cuz it has nothing to do with the individual person. It's strictly racial. Btw what do you do that makes people call you juice and say your trippin.....you must look pretty spaced sometimes


Bullshit, does it show everybody eating dogs or just one person? Also they could argue that the North Korean leader must look as if he eats dogs.



quote:
Originally posted by princesszinza
I agree with you there. I hate when people decide they're victims and whine and don't stand up and complain. But in your situation it sounds more like friendly teasing than anything malicious. In the dogeating situation I still maintain that's worse cuz it's a really stupid racial stereotype. In your case I think maybe you shouldn't come to school looking so faded


Hold on there, couldn't someone just say "Maybe you should stop eating dogs"?

Posted by OneWeCallOMEGA on 06-14-2003 02:12 AM:

You can't change the past. These stereotypes are all based on past events and will never dissapear. As long as there is difference between people, there will be suffering. But, suffering builds endurance to take on the more harder to live with things in life anyway, you can never grow stronger if you hide in a box and never suffer and learn to deal with it. So it's not all bad. However, just look at Columbine... Those kids drowned in the suffering and just couldn't take it anymore. If it's really bothering you, do something. It's not, let it blow off and get on with your life.
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