“Asians in the Library” (2011) is a YouTube video, a three-minute racist rant against Asians made by Alexandra Wallace (pictured), a White American student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). It came right after a tsunami had killed 10,000 people in Japan. Three years later it is still the top suggested completion for “Asians” on Google.
In the video she informs us that there are “hordes of Asian people” that UCLA accepts into “our” school. Which, she said, was “fine” but they should learn “American manners”.
In commenting on their lack of manners, she observes:
their moms and their brothers and their sisters and their grandmas and their grandpas and their cousins and everybody that they know that they’ve brought along from Asia with them – comes here [to her apartment complex] on the weekends to do their laundry, buy their groceries and cook their food for the week.
Like that was a bad thing. She claims, “They don’t teach their kids to fend for themselves.”
At the library:
I’ll be in like deep into my studying, into my political science theories and arguments and all that stuff, getting it all down, like typing away furiously, blah blah, blah, and then all of a sudden when I’m about to like reach an epiphany… Over here from somewhere, “Ooooh Ching Chong Ling Long Ting Tong, Ooohhhhh.” …
I swear they’re going through their whole families, just checking on everybody from the tsunami thing. I mean I know, okay, that sounds horrible like I feel bad for all the people affected by the tsunami, but if you’re gonna go call your address book like you might as well go outside …
American manners: She completely destroyed any claim to having manners herself by her racist “ching-chong” stereotype and her heartlessness about “the tsunami thing”, wrapping it all in a racist rant for the whole world to see.
She does not seem to know the difference between China and Japan or that most Asians at UCLA, at least two-thirds, are Americans. Just. Like. Her.
She talks as if America is only for White people – everyone else is a guest or something. Thus the “our”, the big deal about “manners” and her dichotomy between “American” and “Asian”.
The video inspired:
- at least three songs,
- loads of parody videos,
- stereotypes of her as a dumb blonde slut. (The “blonde” and “dumb” parts are clear from the video, but not the “slut” part.),
- several death threats (she made no threats in the video).
The Asian Pacific Coalition at UCLA called the video “hate speech”.
The university chancellor called it “thoughtless and hurtful” – and condemned some of the reaction as “uncivil discourse”. Instead of punishing her he defended her right to free speech.
Wallace, after insulting Asians at UCLA and making Whites look bad, became a social outcast at the university. She left UCLA: the death threats made it unsafe for her to remain.
See also:
- YouTube: the video, best song, best parody (in my opinion)
- “ching chong”
- The perpetual foreigner stereotype
- white privilege mindset
- more racist videos:
- “Too Asian”
- “America” / “Asian”
Miss / Ms. Wallace sounds like a real Brainiac, not to mention a ” Valley Girl ” type. Next she’ll probably do a rant about Asians & / or Mexicans at the USPS, FedEx & UPS.
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Actually, I didn’t find anything special or unusual about what she did. This is something that white Americans do all the time, i.e., treat the other Americans like foreigners and lecture them to act like “proper” Americans.
But, I wouldn’t go as far as saying what she did as “hate speech” per se. She wasn’t exactly inciting violence or “punishment” for her targeted group. She just acted like what many white people act like or echoed what many white people think. Many white people think this way and find nothing wrong with it.
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[…] “Asians in the Library” (2011) is a YouTube video, a three-minute racist rant against Asians made by Alexandra Wallace (pictured), a White American student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). It came right after a tsunami had killed 10,000 people in Japan. Three years later it is still the top suggested completion for “Asians” on Google. […]
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[…] See on abagond.wordpress.com […]
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This video was hilarious.
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@ Kiwi
Wow. Why am I not surprised.
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White privlege mindset at work. Maybe she moved to Nevada with Cliven Bundy…Hey FOX news could really use her……. she IS blonde after all
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Any black man or man of color suffering from self hate who can’t wait to bury their face in the breasts of the nearest white woman need to watch this video as required learning so they can know what they’re dealing with before they take the plunge. Hopefully it will make them think twice before acting like Pepe Le’ Pew over anything white, the grass isn’t always greener fellas. To women of color by extension, don’t be so eager to be their “token” friends either.
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Since white people in general are confused,, I am creating this list
PEOPLE WHO SHOULD BE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST
1. Pedophiles, rapists
2. Bad breath poor oral hygeine people
3. Dirty hair people
4. Mean people
5. “Missionary position only” people
6. I wear blue slacks everyday people
7. I only wear polyester year round people
8. Intentionally ignorant people
9. Socks with sandals in the summer people
10. I never clean my ears people
But surely I jest
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She talks as if America is only for White people – everyone else is a guest or something. Thus the “our”, the big deal about “manners” and her dichotomy between “American” and “Asian.
I find it funny how white people scream and shout about how America, and in some cases, Canada, are “their” nations as they were created by them for only them. Yet, they don’t want to remember that North America was originally settled by Native Americans until they came along and started to dominate everything in sight.
White folks have this megalomaniac complex that everything on Earth belongs to them. I think most of them see us more as trespassers as opposed as guests, especially if they invade their space for their own means.
I swear they’re going through their whole families, just checking on everybody from the tsunami thing. I mean I know, okay, that sounds horrible like I feel bad for all the people affected by the tsunami, but if you’re gonna go call your address book like you might as well go outside …
Really?!? This person has a problem with people who are worried about their families during a horrific natural disaster?
White people have serious problems with people who don’t look like them.
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Oh, I forgot
11. The I eat chitlins and other weird parts of the pig people
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She got death threats? A significant number of death threats–wow.
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The is a symptom of white privilege. She is just sad and stupid.
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It doesn’t matter if you attend an institution of higher learning, she’s still an imbecile. I wonder what major she declared and did she graduate? Anyone can get accepted into college. SMH.
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@Jacque: LOL!
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I get the feeling she can just move to another city or state and have a high chance of having a successful career. UCLA is probably one of the few places that can socially hold her accountable for her actions only because it’s about half Asian.
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It really pisses me off, every time white people say racists things in public about people of color, other whites swoop in and condone the deed by saying its, “freedom of speech”.
How ridiculous is that? Its not like anyone is saying she doesn’t have the right to say, whatever she wants. Doesn’t mean people can’t call her ignorant, racist and a dumb blonde in response , either.
I guess morals and decency isn’t applied to white people, when talking down to people of color.
Don’t let a black person say anything that would be considered, racist toward white people,
They would be thrown under the bus and talk of, “free speech” would not be uttered.
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[…] I’ll be in like deep …”; Read full post on Author’s site […]
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To Kiwi and Abagond:
You’re talking about Gene D. Block. He’s the same white guy who came out recently in support of legislation that would reduce Asian enrollment in the UCs. His reasoning is that merit damages diversity (aka “too many Asians”). Whites are always complaining about affirmative action giving spots away to minorities, but when minorities get into schools on merit, suddenly merit is a bad thing.
Except that Gene Block is in favor of affirmative action,not against it as you imply and is expressly interested in seeing increases in African American and Latino enrollment in the UC system:
Click to access chancellors-diversity-remarks.pdf
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gene-d-block/fischer-v-university-of-texas-affirmative-action_b_3492218.html
To Abagond:
@ Kiwi
Wow. Why am I not surprised.
It would appear you didn’t know Gene Block favors affirmative action and more Latino and African American students on UC campuses. (Currently the UC system is mostly bound by Prop 209)
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Uncle Milton,
It appears that Mr. Block’s definition of Affirmative Action also means putting a cap on Asian enrollment or using some kind of “racial tax” in the admissions process.
It is possible to be for affirmative action policies that are designed to reduce the number of Asian students and increase the number of white students (whilst increasing blacks and Latinos as well) without contradicting anything that Kiwi and abagond said.
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Jefe:
It is possible to be for affirmative action policies that are designed to reduce the number of Asian students and increase the number of white students (whilst increasing blacks and Latinos as well) without contradicting anything that Kiwi and abagond said.
Except that Gene Block was against Abigail Fisher in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas. (He and other UC chancellors, in a friend of the court declaration in favor of affirmative action weighed against Fisher, a white woman seeking to overturn UT diversity polices…)
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@ Erik Sieven
I deleted your comment for being off topic. If you want to talk about your stereotypes about black-on-Asian violence, please take it to the Open Thread.
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At Abangond:
I understand, i actually wanted write something which relates what i wanted to write with the article above, but i forgot about it. So I will write it again the in open thread
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Does anybody else think ti(t)t()y banging??
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So titty banging comments are on topic?! You fucking hypocrite.
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@sondis:
A few principles which I think should be kept in mind whenever someone pulls that kind of “freedom of speech” argument:
1. “Freedom of speech”, as in the Constitutional right, really just means that the government cannot restrict your speech. It doesn’t mean I have to publish your (generic “you”) racist ranting. If I had, say, a web forum, and you came on there and posted your blither on there, and I had a rule in place saying I don’t tolerate or condone such a thing, then I can freely ban you and delete the offending posts from my site. I know of a forum site I frequent (the James Randi Education Foundation (JREF) forum, which is a “critical thinking” forum) which has rules in place against personal attacks on other posters and for which the moderators routinely remove such things.
2. Freedom of speech cuts both ways: if there is freedom to express your racist ranting, then I have equal freedom to knock it down with a blistering critique, or even just simply calling it out as racist.
3. Criticism of someone’s freely-spoken opinion is not a reduction of freedom of speech. By 1), only the government can do that, and even if you interpreted freedom of speech more broadly, how is additional speech generated in response to it preventing you from expressing it? Freedom of speech, in any reasonable interpretation, is not the right to be agreed with or the right to be free from criticism.
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@mike4ty4,
I don’t think Sondis’s argument had any problem with letting people expressing comments and then others responding to those comments. The issue is not freedom of speech per se.
It is when people come to the defense of someone making malicious racist comments just by the simple and empty Freedom of Speech argument. They don’t want to come right out and say if they agree with it or not. To agree with it is to brand them as racist (and god forbid that) so they pull out support for something (which might be interpreted as negative) by labelling it Freedom of Speech.
The argument is lousy (and covertly harmful), not the issues with Freedom of Speech itself.
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@jefe: Yes, I got that he didn’t have a problem. I was just pointing out some things I have realized that could be used to counter the “free speech” argument when it comes up. I was remarking on that argument, not saying that Sondis had a problem with using free speech to counter it. They were more like points that could be brought up against that argument.
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So, you are seeing what your retort is to the person using the “freedom of speech argument” (the university chancellor in this case)?
Unless it is a famous and powerful talking head making that retort and attacking the user, it might not do much to eliminate the argument to support racist behavior in a covert, indirect manner. Someone might need a more direct statement to indicate that the speaker is just hiding behind his statement.
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@Languourus Laowai
Look at that picture; of course it is.
@general
Yeah; its interesting; she berates the asians for not raising their kids to stand on their own….feeling its a form of bad parenting I guess.
But Asians are probably the most economically successful group of non-white people in the US.
Maybe there is a reason for that.
So there are discussions to further increase the bamboo ceiling in the name of “diversity”?
Some kind of irony there.
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Lol white people think they’re solo special. They think their are the $h*t.
They know they have no significant history. So they have all these made up superhero movies etc. to make themselves feel good about themselves.
They lie and manipulate history to make it seem like they actually contributed something constructive to the world. They take credit for things that never came from them. They gaunt never been on the planets as long as people of color.
So they lie about history to boost their pathetic self worth.
It’s time for white people to go.
They’ve bring nothing but problems to everybody of the world they’ve cone in contact with.
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^^
Pretty much sums it up right there.
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The reason the chancellor can not punish her for this is because this IS an issue of free speech. This university is a public school, funded by the state. Therefore, for the courts there is sufficient government involvement in the university to consider many actions of the university administration/professors to be government/state action. Therefore, punishing the girl for the content of her speech goes against the Constitution.
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Speaking of parodies, comedian David So, did it best.
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