{"id":48450,"date":"2022-02-17T21:31:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T02:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48450"},"modified":"2022-02-17T21:31:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T02:31:58","slug":"lets-make-a-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48450","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s make a deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-48451\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/awkwafina_wut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/awkwafina_wut.jpg 560w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/awkwafina_wut-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I saw <a href=\"https:\/\/insidethemagic.net\/2022\/02\/boycotted-awkwafina-disney-plus-commercial-th1\/\"><span class=\"s1\">this article<\/span><\/a> about how the internet went bonkers because supposed-to-have-been-cancelled Awkwafina was in some Disney commercial during the Super Bowl, because prior to the release of Shang-Chi, the internet was offended because she spoke with too much of an urban black affect that she was clearly maliciously culturally appropriating and therefore needed to be boycotted and cancelled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">And after rolling my eyes at the pitiful double standard that it\u2019s okay to lecture and bully Asian people on race because the white people world is so collectively afraid of black people, I just thought that the cool kids world needs to be proposed this idea:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">If Asian people can\u2019t speak with black people affects, then black people can\u2019t get tattoos of Asian language.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Deal? <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Seriously.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Speaking on behalf of all Asian people, we will stop speaking with any sort of rapper or black person affect, but all black people, from rappers to NBA players, are prohibited from getting tattoos of any Asian characters on their bodies.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>No kanji, no hangul, no katakana, none of it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>And we Asians will never put an affect in our speech, ever again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Like, I don\u2019t know where people get the nerve to pick this battle so often.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>As if Awkwafina is the first person in history that wasn\u2019t black to speak like black people do.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>You don\u2019t see the internet trying to cancel Eminem or Pitbull or any other not-black rapper that\u2019s ever made money spitting rhymes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This is a classic textbook example of Margaret Cho\u2019s observation about how white people love to lecture Asian people on race because they\u2019re afraid to say this stuff to black people.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The internet all white-knighting for black culture at the expense of Asians, because we\u2019re seen as docile and subservient and okay to try and boss around because they know they can\u2019t get away with doing such towards black people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">All the while, all sorts of not-Asian people all think it\u2019s okay and acceptable to tattoo Asian characters on their bodies &#8211; because it fucking is.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Freedom exists, and although it might seem silly, white people, black people, Hispanic people, or whatever race there is, is free to tattoo Asian characters on their bodies, and not be criticized to the point where they are suggested to be cancelled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">People who lose their minds over how Awkwafina speaks need to get off their high horses, off her nuts and off of the nuts of Asian people in general, because they\u2019re embarrassing themselves by feeding into a bullshit double standard that they\u2019re too stupid to realize that they\u2019re committing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Suggesting cancelling someone over how they think someone is speaking is fucking idiotic and anyone who buys into that should cancel themselves for how stupid believing it actually makes them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this article about how the internet went bonkers because supposed-to-have-been-cancelled Awkwafina was in some Disney commercial during the Super Bowl, because prior to the release of Shang-Chi, the internet was offended because she spoke with too much of an urban black affect that she was clearly maliciously culturally appropriating and therefore needed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48450\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let\u2019s make a deal<\/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":[90,83,89,146,190],"class_list":["post-48450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-hypocrisy","tag-observations","tag-racism","tag-triggered","tag-white-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48450","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=48450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48452,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48450\/revisions\/48452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}