You know what, you're probably mostly right. Suey Park strikes me as incredibly self-obsessed.

I did see several of the tweets, and it struck me that no, they were not following the joke. For instance, the first tweet on the linked article says that Asian ethnicity was the "punchline." It certainly wasn't—Snyder's racism was the punchline. I guess I can understand how reproducing a racist stereotype as part of…

The argument isn't that it was "just a joke." It's that the people who took offense fundamentally misunderstood the joke, either because they didn't bother watching the clip or they aren't familiar with the Colbert Report.