{"id":3979,"date":"2012-02-07T00:22:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T05:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=3979"},"modified":"2012-02-07T00:23:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T05:23:48","slug":"superbowl-yellow-peril-spectacular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2012\/02\/07\/superbowl-yellow-peril-spectacular\/","title":{"rendered":"Superbowl Yellow Peril Spectacular!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure what offends me more about this ad for Pete Hoekstra&#8217;s Michigan Senate campaign&#8230; the ham-handedness of it (Debbie &#8220;Spend it Now&#8221;&#8230; really?) or the fact that the stereotype for Chinese people used in this spot looks like something out of the 1950&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HrbdXUWryXk\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>James Fallows has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2012\/02\/superbowl-special-my-nominee-for-most-revolting-ad\/252593\/\">excellent dressing down<\/a> of this ad.  Pointing out that most of China doesn&#8217;t look like what&#8217;s depicted in the ad. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not even sure what the main point of this ad is supposed to be?  That Democrats in general and Debbie &#8220;Spend it Now&#8221; are funneling money to a country full of Chinese women in rice paddies?  I can get too scared about some 1950&#8217;s depiction of China?  Shouldn&#8217;t you be showing Chinese engineers in factories or Chinese mega-cities?  <\/p>\n<p>But of course if you did that, it would undercut the idea of American exceptionalism.  Central to the idea of a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yellow_Peril\">yellow peril<\/a>&#8221; is that Asians use guile and deceit to achieve their ends.  And that Asian women secretly want to be taken by virile American men.  So it&#8217;s no accident that there&#8217;s a &#8220;come hither&#8221; aspect to this ad.  I mean, what&#8217;s with the accent?  Who thinks this is the way Chinese people speak English?  It&#8217;s as if they are trying to conjure up the hooker in Full Metal Jacket.  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/12tce-THLUE\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure that ham-handed appeals like this work in our political climate.  Ads like this are typically run by losing campaigns.  If you look at the Real Clear Politics<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2012\/senate\/mi\/michigan_senate_hoekstra_vs_stabenow-1817.html\"> run down of the polls for this race<\/a>, Stabenow has a decent lead.  I don&#8217;t see it shrinking based on this ad.<\/p>\n<p>HT: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/mtf612\">Mike Frieda<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure what offends me more about this ad for Pete Hoekstra&#8217;s Michigan Senate campaign&#8230; the ham-handedness of it (Debbie &#8220;Spend it Now&#8221;&#8230; really?) or the fact that the stereotype for Chinese people used in this spot looks like something out of the 1950&#8217;s. James Fallows has an excellent dressing down of this ad. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3981,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions\/3981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}