{"id":44350,"date":"2017-01-12T22:09:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T02:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44350"},"modified":"2020-07-29T22:09:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T02:09:49","slug":"double-standards-in-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44350","title":{"rendered":"Double standards in racism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019m 90% sure I\u2019ve written about this before, probably when Chris Rock<\/a> decided it was a good idea to make a really tasteless joke at the expense of Asians at last year\u2019s Oscars, but just because it was sung and danced about before doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s ever okay for it to be sung and danced about any other time.<\/span><\/p>\n

So when Steve Harvey<\/a> decided it\u2019s completely okay to imply that it\u2019s a Christmas fucking miracle for Asian men to get non-Asian women to date, on national fucking television, it most certainly triggers some agitation within my person.<\/span><\/p>\n

The thing is, I\u2019ve never really had a problem with Steve Harvey.\u00a0 I\u2019ve actually kind of liked Steve Harvey as a comedian; when he goes deadpan, it\u2019s usually to good effect, and I\u2019ve heard enough of his standup to know that there\u2019s actually a brain capable of creating good material in that bald shiny noggin.\u00a0 I\u2019ll admit that I\u2019m not a fan of what he\u2019s done with the Family Feud<\/em> franchise, because I think with him as the host, the show has gone very low-brow, and often reaches for the low-hanging fruits of lame double entendres, sexual puns, and it\u2019s obvious the survey is only asking people who hang out at douchey Midtown bars.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But that seems to be Steve Harvey\u2019s MO these days; grasping at low-hanging fruit. After all, a whole lot of a little fruit equates to a whole lot of fruit in the end much the same, which is why we\u2019re seeing so much Steve Harvey these days, hosting pageants and blowing the endings, morning talk shows, and apparently with his own talk show outright.<\/span><\/p>\n

So I\u2019m not really mad at Steve Harvey for grasping at the low-hanging fruit of making jokes at the expense of Asians, because that\u2019s what he does \u2013 grasp at low-hanging fruit.\u00a0 I am disappointed, because I honestly thought, that a comedian as known as Steve Harvey was better than this.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clearly, I have been mistaken.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it all goes back to the point that these days, nobody is allowed to say shit about black people, because whether it\u2019s a racist fear of black people, or fear of the wrath of the dreaded #blacklivesmatter, or perhaps all of the above, black people have become invulnerable to criticism or any sort of crosshairs.\u00a0 But Asians?\u00a0 Hispanics?\u00a0 Anyone who isn\u2019t black or white?\u00a0 All fair game.\u00a0 That is legitimately, what it feels like to be someone that is neither black or white.\u00a0 Like a potential target for any sort of criticism, because we don\u2019t fall into the group that is the majority, or into the group that has historically endured as massive amount of shit and has a magic card that protects them from any sort of scrutiny today.<\/span><\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not just black people who have carte blanche to take cheap shots at Asians and other minorities, but white people just fucking love to lecture Asians and other minorities about racial sensitivity, and I think Margaret Cho hits the nail on the head<\/a> when she hypothesized that such is because white people are afraid to speak with black people about racism, that they take it out on Asians and other minorities.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a bullshit double standard that I\u2019ve probably already ranted about before, but because it keeps happening, it warrants a redux of words about how it\u2019s fucking absurd that white people guilt on themselves so much already that they\u2019re impervious to criticism, black people bitch and protest and uprise so much that everyone\u2019s afraid to criticize them, but that leaves everyone else as fair game for targeted racism.<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s always a chaotic part of me, that whenever shit like this happens, fantasizes about removing the filter, and letting all the white people and black people know how I feel, whenever I feel that they\u2019re being a little too racist.\u00a0 But obviously I am smart enough and civil enough to restrain such thoughts, and that I do think I\u2019m better than that, but unfortunately, this is a capability that many in the world are not.<\/span><\/p>\n

Going back to Steve Harvey, his shit about Asians wasn\u2019t even that funny.\u00a0 It\u2019s pathetic the way he doubles over and laughs at his own jokes, because I was always under the belief that such was a really inappropriate thing for comics to do.\u00a0 It\u2019s why Jimmy Fallon always got so much criticism when he was on SNL, because he couldn\u2019t stop laughing at his own jokes.\u00a0 But clearly Steve Harvey thinks making fun of Asians is funny, so I guess it should be okay if I made a joke about black people, and how they\u2019re like tornadoes because it only takes one to ruin a neighborhood ROFL.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

See?\u00a0 Not really that cool, and kind of really not that funny, either.\u00a0 Fuck Steve Harvey.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m 90% sure I\u2019ve written about this before, probably when Chris Rock decided it was a good idea to make a really tasteless joke at the expense of Asians at last year\u2019s Oscars, but just because it was sung and danced about before doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s ever okay for it to be sung and danced … Continue reading Double standards in racism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,89,69,49],"class_list":["post-44350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-racism","tag-television","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44352,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44350\/revisions\/44352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}