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Anti-Racism Activists on Colbert: We Will Protest This Until It Ends
http://time.com ^ | April 10, 2014 | Suey Park, Eunsong Kim

Posted on 04/11/2014 2:18:37 PM PDT by BBell

The marginalization of other voices is now complete.

The cross-promotion of more white male celebrities prove it: The entertainment industry has perfected the development of white, cis, straight, male characters. The marginalization of “other voices” — except when those “others” are brought in only to aid in the cheap punch line of a joke — is complete. This is aggression that we do not have to accept. We will protest this until it ends.

Many dismissed the protest we undertook last month with #CancelColbert, a hashtag we set up in response to a blatantly racist Tweet about Asians from the Colbert show’s account.

We think people are surprised to see that their monolithic view of Asian Americans as a model minority is being challenged. We are not the problem. Your stereotypes and narrow roles for us are the problem.

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: colbert; loser; sueypark
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To: trisham

LOL, that’s why I posed the question.


21 posted on 04/11/2014 2:47:37 PM PDT by Fledermaus (I support Joe Carr in the TN GOP Primary against Lamar!)
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To: Tanniker Smith

Computer and informational Sciences? I thought it meant Commonwealth of Independent States.


22 posted on 04/11/2014 2:48:48 PM PDT by BBell (The Blue Dog is Stupid)
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To: BBell
As for Colbert, I'm not stuck with him.

Maybe not, but the country will.

23 posted on 04/11/2014 2:49:57 PM PDT by x
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To: x

I guess your right in the same sense I am stuck with “The View” of which I have not only never seen but I know no one who has. I can’t say the same about colbert or the late show.


24 posted on 04/11/2014 2:53:47 PM PDT by BBell (The Blue Dog is Stupid)
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To: BBell; Dilbert San Diego

None of us do. She lives in a world where it’s as common a descriptor as “white” and “male”, and “other” is used as a verb. She might as well be speaking a different language.


25 posted on 04/11/2014 2:56:17 PM PDT by jiggyboy
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To: jiggyboy; Dilbert San Diego; Tanniker Smith; dfwgator
I found what cis means. It means normal.

Cisgender and cissexual (often abbreviated to simply cis) describe related types of gender identity where an individual's experience of their own gender matches the sex they were assigned at birth.[1] Sociologists Kristen Schilt and Laurel Westbrook define cisgender as a label for "individuals who have a match between the gender they were assigned at birth, their bodies, and their personal identity" as a complement to transgender.[2] Prominent gay activist John Aravosis considers the term "a slur against non-trans people."

26 posted on 04/11/2014 3:01:02 PM PDT by BBell (The Blue Dog is Stupid)
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To: BBell

The protesters are not of the government approved race


27 posted on 04/11/2014 3:10:46 PM PDT by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: BBell
Yeah, I knew what "cis" meant. They don't want to say it means "normal", because what would that make "trans" -- "abnormal", of course. But that's not "abnormal", right? Right? ... No, only on the left!

I choose to ignore it, unless it's spoken, in which case, I might respond, "'Cyst?' You mean like cancer?"

28 posted on 04/11/2014 3:12:20 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: BBell

Well ok. I had decided to make no effort whatsoever to find out what it means, for the same reason I make no effort to try to speak Spanish in the U.S. It probably won’t take much effort to put it back out of my memory.


29 posted on 04/11/2014 3:15:32 PM PDT by jiggyboy
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To: x

What does his remark have to do with us being stuck with Colbert? Are you saying any attack on Colbert is alright just because Colbert is a clueless lib? The person attacking Colbert is extremely thin-skinned. Colbert’s remark was an attempt at satire...a very lame attempt. But too many people take offense at virtually everything.


30 posted on 04/11/2014 3:40:58 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: BBell

I plan on not watching Colbert like I didn’t watch Letterman...like I’m not going to watch Fallon either. The only one of these late night guys I like is Jimmy Kimmel.....but I can’t justify saying up that late to watch his show. I do listen to his pod casts on I Heart Radio..and like I say, I think he’s funny.


31 posted on 04/11/2014 3:43:38 PM PDT by pallmallman (Q)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
But they tan up so beautifully in the Summer! Believe me, I know!

Yes, they do. Mine is a Filipina.

32 posted on 04/11/2014 3:50:04 PM PDT by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Vet 70-71 Msgt US Air Force, retired)
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To: Mark17

Wonderful, isn’t it? My lady friend and her daughter are just stunning when they get tanned up. But I’m biased! I think Asian women are the most beautiful women on the planet!


33 posted on 04/11/2014 3:59:35 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
I think Asian women are the most beautiful women on the planet!

Yes they are, and hard headed too, but that is OK.

34 posted on 04/11/2014 4:31:10 PM PDT by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Vet 70-71 Msgt US Air Force, retired)
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To: Mark17

” hard headed too,”

Yup! Anyone who thinks they are submissive is very wrong! I butt heads with Yi constantly! It ain’t easy!


35 posted on 04/11/2014 4:43:19 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Boogieman

Hmmm, I see a chink in your thinking...


36 posted on 04/11/2014 4:44:10 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: BBell
Honestly this women needs a life. She can't seem to get her mind out of the I am a victim 101 class she took in college. It's funny how she stereo types the same people that she thinks stereo type her.

She is SO 70's.
"Woman of color" really translates into:
I have brains but absolutely no ambition but to get back at those who persecute me. No, I don't know who "they" are but they ARE persecuting me and I don't like it.
I want.
I have oodles of education but I don't wanna do anything for a living cuz I am OWED by all those people who disrespect me. No, I don't know who they are but I don't like them!
I want.
My mother is a bwitch. My dad is always out gambling. And who cares cuz when he's home all my parents to is fight about money.
I want. I don't know what I want, but I WANT. Wah!!!

Well, I DO know what I want.
I want blonde hair, blue eyes, a nice big, round butt and big, big natural boobs.
Yeah, yeah, everyone says I'm FABULOUSLY beautiful but I want blonde hair, blue eyes, a nice big, round butt and big, big natural boobs.

I want.

Wah!

37 posted on 04/11/2014 6:59:45 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Lol. You sound so "South Pacific"!! Bali Hai is caaaalling!!

You haven't been around a whole lot of Asian women.
I taught thousands of them during my 44 years of teaching and I can tell you that there are some really ooogly ones. There are about the SAME percentage of beautiful young women everywhere.
That you like them better than any other women shows that you don't appreciate your own very much...and that's a shame.

Side note: ABC's, American Born Chinese have their Asian sisters and brothers beaten all to heck. ABCs (both male and female) have butts, not the straight line from shoulders to heels.

They also have boobs (women) and chests (men), not the straight line from chin to pubic hair.

Chinese DON'T (usually) have a bridge on their nose so if they wear glasses, said glasses are down around the end of the nose, ready to drop off the face. Contact lenses, please.

Chinese women, as they age, usually start balding right at the top center of their hair: TOO many years of dying their hair black and doing perms. The two treatments are DEADLY for hair.

I guess the Asian women see "gray" as age. Many women do. But having lots of gray hair is better than having bald spots where there once WAS and is no more.

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As a girl I was a natural blondie. As I aged, the hair got a bit less blonde.
So, at one time I had blonde highlights to keep me blonde. I also had a perm because my sister had really curly hair and I didn't.
The both of these treatments were TOO much for human hair. One day, after about eight months of doing this, I looked in the mirror and I looked like Bozo the Clown.

So, I went to the hairdresser and said: Cut it all off!!!
He did and left one inch of hair all around. My husband loved it but I wanted more hair there.

NOW I go for the highlights and skip the perm. My husband is gone, but he would like my hair now. I have always had LOTS of hair. I still do and it's still very thick and soft, naturally, and blonde, with a little help.

38 posted on 04/11/2014 7:26:46 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: BBell

Are these people really that stupid ?


39 posted on 04/11/2014 9:02:07 PM PDT by jimt (Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.)
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To: driftless2
When somebody else complains they're "thin-skinned."

When the barbs hit closer to home, then it's different.

I get tired of the idea that liberal comedian jerks are always satirizing the "real bigots" who are somebody else, and rejoice in seeing this clown hoist by his own petard.

40 posted on 04/12/2014 10:47:44 AM PDT by x
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