I really appreciate your dedication to this.

All I can tell you is to speak up more until the loudness is unbearable. Right now, Asians are seen as meek, weak, and without a voice. You are a pet, not a person. The more you let people know that you are the latter, the more they will have to see you as a thinking body.

Every day is April Fool's Day if you are a woman.

"but the truth is, it doesn't matter what you do, the majority can turn on you at any moment if you stop being exactly what they want you to be."

I can't stop laughing! But, I said it this weekend: this stopped being about Colbert and his satire a long time ago. It became more about his "progressive" fans being assholes and shitty allies during the course of this shitstorm. Not that they've noticed. Aw, welp!

thank you! there's some seriously willful blindness going on in these here comments.

I am really sorry to hear about your experience, but, unfortunately, I am not surprised. I am a black woman, but I am often astounded by how cavalierly people dismiss, insult, marginalize, and stereotype Asian Americans. It is sad, and not fair, and I am sorry that your life experiences have to be colored in that…

T0 All Allies Of Racial Inequality, Repeat Out Loud.

I'm not saying this article was terrible, but you know what I would like to see? Colbert, Jezebel, and all prominent platforms for white liberal humor coming out in explicit support of Suey Park. Maybe not #cancelColbert specifically, but Suey Park and how she should be able to say she doesn't like a TV show on…

I mean if anything this has proved that white liberals ain't shit. Did Park maybe over react? Sure, but that doesn't mean she wasn't trying to say some real stuff. And for every white liberal who is going "but what about the real racists! Conervatives!" STFU you are a real racist. Poc deal with your BS everyday. And…

To be fair, though, Suey didn't hijack it. The Colbert Report did.

Jokes can be racist, though, in the same way jokes can be sexist. "It was a joke" or "the person who said it is a satirist/comedian" isn't, and shouldn't be, a get out of jail free for anything offensive you say or do card.

That last paragraph. YES! ALL OF THAT! Oh, the irony....

I just don't know what to do with any of this. I absolutely get that it was satire—that his use of a common racist joke against Asian people was meant to show the absurdity of the Washington Redskins name. Totally got it. But I also get that people might be offended, satire or not, by the use of what are pretty much…

Suey Park was interviewed on Huff Post Live and was treated appallingly by host Josh Zepp. (Bro, even if you disagree over what's good satire and what's not, it's still probably a good idea to at least try to listen to a person whose race is being used in a joke to see how they feel about it. You can be respectful and…

Honestly, I'm disgusting by Jezebel (and many of its commenters) in how they've reacted to this situation. A woman raises her voice against an experience of racism, and everyone comes out the woodwork to:

This just enhances my belief that Aussie men are arrogant, entitled dickheads.

No, he was using Asians as a contrast in order to make fun of racism in another situation. It's not directly making fun of Asians, but it's "acceptable" because the feeling in American society is that Asians can be used as a contrast because they're not repressed or underserved.

So... while the hashtag was a bit over-the-top (and clearly designed to stir the pot), she has a legitimate point. Asians do get a lot of "good-natured" bullshit lobbed at them, and even when it's from someone like Colbert, they often get the "you're okay to make fun of because you're not oppressed!" treatment in…

There are accounts of homosexuality in Chinese culture that go back to the Tang dynasty, and suggestions of homosexuality in the Records of the Grand Historian, published in Han dynasty (91 BCE) and go back to the Xia dynasty (2070-1600 BCE). It wasn't until the latest Qing dynasty (1644-1912 CE), when non-Han…