The number of Johnny Depp apologists out there is so depressing. I know he’s a lot of women’s Manic Pixie Dream Man Forever, but Jesus. I don’t care if it was alcohol/drug-related and he’s a real nice guy when sober, I don’t care if she “provoked” him, I don’t care if Amber Heard is or isn’t a gold digger, domestic…

I think crimes against the most vulnerable within society are the absolute worst and they are seemingly and unfortunately the most pervasive. My heart weeps with yours

“Those who download and possess child pornography create a market that causes more children to be harmed,” U.S. Attorney Eileen M. Decker said in a statement. “Young victims are harmed every time an image is generated, every time it is distributed, and every time it is viewed.”

So why aren’t people taking this conversation directly to casting directors and casting agencies? I’ve yet to see any casting agency be called out for shitty behavior or notoriously racist casting directors. It’s pretty convenient to hear the victims of this and then throw up hands and do nothing.

I can have ten pages by close of business that sets up a John Cho/Constance Wu meet-cute.

If John Wayne can play Genghis Khan, then sure, Daniel Dae Kim can play Lincoln.

He did admit that he’d always pictured Mindy Park as of Korean lineage, but emphasized again that he had never actually explicitly written her as Korean.

British actresses Katie Leung and Gemma Chan have said the same so not just the US.

I was thinking about this when I went to see Allegiance on Broadway. It starred Lea Salonga and George Takei and was the story of Japanese-Americans who were interred during WWII. Except for like 3 characters, every single actor was Asian. Reading through their bios, just about every single cast member had been at…

She is the driver of the show, but Evan has been coming on strong this season.

Her rant about the cabbage babies was glorious!

The single most annoying thing to me about white privilege is that the default human being as constructed in the popular imagination in this country is a white person. The fully realized lives of the rest of us is so rarely seen on-screen. We really don’t exist unless we are attached to a white person (see the Magical…

Wu is amazing on Fresh Off The Boat. She absolutely needs to be in more things.

So everyone who is excusing Trillin’s poem is saying that it’s satire and he’s making fun of white people who can’t bother to differentiate between different kinds of Chinese food?

In addition to all of the comments that came before me: there is a non-insignificant statement made in referring to Chinese people as “they” and the New Yorker offices (ostensibly) as “us.” (Is the statement “we do not hire Chinese people?” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Even so, I think the best thing you can say about it is that it falls badly afoul of Poe’s Law. When the only thing separating your satire of racism and oblivious cultural imperialism from actual racism and oblivious cultural imperialism is that you know what you meant when you wrote it, you may have done something…

What pisses me off the most about this is that I am writer—a decent poet, even—who will never be published in the New Yorker because they need to leave room for things like this.

Great - but at the same time my culture doesn’t exist for you to poke fun at white people. There is still something patronizing about a white person using a HUGE vast country/culture merely to poke fun at a small, small white sliver.

Yeah, but ironic racism can still actually be racist - it doesn’t matter what you were going for. Sure, some Chinese folks and many self aware white people might find it funny. But so far, from social media - Chinese people don’t like it. It can come from a genuine place or a non-racist place and still be racist in…

The real problem with the poem is its expression of Western fear. Just when you think you have catalogued and quantified all those pesky non white folks - more show up!