I really didn't feel like dragging this up. But I had been thinking about this sort of thing for a while today, and just wanted to say my final thoughts:
Most Asians in Western society have been taunted with the "ching chong" schtick before. I remember being made fun of it before by other people, back in grade school by ignoramuses who couldn't know any less about what they were taunting me about. Tough luck, you say, but racist bullying is far worse than just being shoved around, you probably can assume that already. To brush it off as not being significant is an ignorant mistake, and I'd like to think that we as modern society have moved past that, for all races and nationalities. Go ahead, label it as such, it's still racism, and if the Chinese language sounds like a bunch of harpies going "ching chong", then I'm sorry you don't know the language.
I'm cool with Asian racism; in my group of friends I'm the token Asian kid and they make fun of me for my bad driving skills
(and small penises...shaddup). Still, I'd like to draw the line somewhere, especially when the person has no idea what the impact of her words are.
"To say 'ching chong' to someone is very offensive, and some Asian people have told me it's as bad as the n-word. Which I was like, 'Really? I didn't know that.' I'm sorry for those people who felt hurt or were teased on the playground. But I'm also gonna give you a fair warning that there's a good chance I'll do something like that again, probably in the next week, not on purpose. Only 'cause it's how my brain works."
It's things like that that make me want to rip her throat out with a nitroglycerin-tipped pickaxe. Oh, you can't excuse yourself from making derogatory remarks against an entire culture? Maybe you need to take a permanent vacation from being on TV...
"Only 'cause it's how my brain works." Ok, fatass, from now on you are hereby excused from calling black people n****rs, calling Jews k*kes, calling Carlos Mencia a...you get the idea. (I'm just trying to prove a point here, not being racist myself.)
Pathetic.
It's not even about Asian racism anymore. It's about you, you useless blob of odious uncooked flesh, and your big fat rancid ego, thinking you can get away with all kinds of crap on television (even though nobody watches your show). This shit is on, BITCH!