{"id":9917,"date":"2009-06-17T14:47:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T19:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=9917"},"modified":"2012-10-19T04:00:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T09:00:46","slug":"portraying-asian-people-as-ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/06\/17\/portraying-asian-people-as-ridiculous\/","title":{"rendered":"Portraying Asian People As Ridiculous"},"content":{"rendered":"

This new commercial for Kentucky Fried Chicken’s grilled option features an assortment of people and, then, two Asian guys in Asian-looking garb with fake Asian accents acting like fools (found at Racialicious<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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I’m sort of speechless here. (1) I can’t imagine how KFC could have thought that this made any sense at all. (2) I don’t understand how they could fail to notice that this is racist.<\/p>\n

Then again, as we argued about the recent Sotomayor cover,<\/a> maybe the truth is that it’s simply fine to be racist these days as long as it’s shrouded in the thinnest film of “humor.”<\/p>\n

In a post on Racialicious<\/a>, Arturo Garcia made a point about Sasha Baron Cohen’s work that resonated with me deeply and, I think, captures how I feel about this new brand of satirical humor<\/a>\/hipster racism<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Maybe we\u2019ve had it wrong all along \u2013 Borat and the upcoming [film] Bruno aren\u2019t comedies at all – they\u2019re horror movies, holding up the mirror to our new idea of funny.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Lisa Wade is a\u00a0professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This new commercial for Kentucky Fried Chicken’s grilled option features an assortment of people and, then, two Asian guys in Asian-looking garb with fake Asian accents acting like fools (found at Racialicious): I’m sort of speechless here. (1) I can’t imagine how KFC could have thought that this made any sense at all. (2) I […]<\/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":[2124,256,285,1759],"class_list":["post-9917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foodagriculture","tag-humor","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-asianspacific-islanders"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9917","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=9917"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52073,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9917\/revisions\/52073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}