{"id":34563,"date":"2011-03-18T10:59:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T15:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=34563"},"modified":"2015-04-07T14:59:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T19:59:26","slug":"responses-to-ucla-students-racist-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/03\/18\/responses-to-ucla-students-racist-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Responses to UCLA Student&#8217;s Racist Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/03\/127.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34567\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/03\/127.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.angryasianman.com\/2011\/03\/alexandras-anti-asian-video-about.html\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Many of you have probably seen\u00a0the recent anti-Asian rant released by UCLA student Alexandra Wallace. In it, she says that &#8220;hordes&#8221; of Asians who are admitted to UCLA inappropriately bring their parents along and obnoxiously speak foreign languages in the library (&#8220;Oooooooh! Ching chong, ling long, ting tong!? Ooooooh!&#8221;). And she compares them to herself, the &#8220;polite, nice, American girl that my momma raised me to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F84NWh8Uzok\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Okay so yes, this is what racism looks like. It&#8217;s also what sexism looks like. People who objected to Wallace&#8217;s video (as they should), often did so with sexist language, including these examples collected by <a href=\"http:\/\/msmagazine.com\/blog\/blog\/2011\/03\/15\/fighting-hate-with-hate-anti-asian-rant-inspires-misogyny\/\">Caroline Heldman for <em>Ms.<\/em> magazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cI bet her grades match her cup size.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201ci have big tits and gave the dean a blowjob to get into UCLA is all I hear.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cEXCUSE ME WHILE I WHIP MY DICK OUT AND JERK IT TO THOSE TITS.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But the most interesting thing I&#8217;ve heard about Wallace&#8217;s video and the response came from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whattamisaid.com\/2011\/03\/stop-being-shocked-by-isms.html\">What Tami Said<\/a>. \u00a0Tami suggested that all the shock and outrage regarding Wallace&#8217;s racism was naive, at best, and delusional, at worst. \u00a0Expressing shock, she said, may be a way to spice up a headline. \u00a0Or, it might be reflective of a belief among some that this sort of racism doesn&#8217;t exist anymore. \u00a0Or, she speculates, expressing shock may be a way for people to distance themselves from people like Wallace, a way for them to advertise the notion that they aren&#8217;t racist.<\/p>\n<p>Tami&#8217;s insight is that the language of shock deserves analysis in itself. \u00a0What does it mean that we&#8217;re expressing shock when events like this on college campuses are rather routine (e.g., see \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/10\/26\/columbus-day-themed-bros-and-hos-party-at-harvard\/\">Conquista<em>bros<\/em> and Nava<em>jos<\/em><\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/28\/the-compton-cookout-racism-resistance-and-backlash\/\">Compton Cookouts<\/a>,\u201d and other\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/11\/08\/individual-racism-alive-and-well\/\">race-mocking parties<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In any case, she doesn&#8217;t think it&#8217;s helpful:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I get that few understand &#8220;isms&#8221; like marginalized people&#8230; But, for God&#8217;s sake pay attention! You needn&#8217;t be victim to oppression to know it exists.\u00a0I submit that if you are truly shocked in the face of racism and sexism and homophobia and transphobia and other injustices, then you are as big a problem as the perpetrators of same. Because people who persist in being unaware of &#8220;isms&#8221; create an environment where ridiculous people like Amanda Wallace and, more importantly, people with far greater power and influence can conduct their bigotry unchallenged.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(source) Many of you have probably seen\u00a0the recent anti-Asian rant released by UCLA student Alexandra Wallace. In it, she says that &#8220;hordes&#8221; of Asians who are admitted to UCLA inappropriately bring their parents along and obnoxiously speak foreign languages in the library (&#8220;Oooooooh! Ching chong, ling long, ting tong!? Ooooooh!&#8221;). And she compares them to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[209,23384,34,55,2098,283,285,1759],"class_list":["post-34563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-education","tag-gender","tag-gender-prejudicediscrimination","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-asianspacific-islanders"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34563"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66468,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34563\/revisions\/66468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}