[Dont Mention the War]

Just when you thought things couldn't get any more pathetic...

[Virulas]

Henceforth to be known as...oriental. Will that work?

[LimberJim]

I think his name kind of gives his ethnicity away, anyhow.

[AU72]

Is showing his picture OK?

[cripplecreek]

How about nappy headed macaca. sheesh

[Biggirl]

Here we go with the again with the “PC” at a really bad time.

[ken21]

universities

were expecting

a christian white male.

i’ll bet they’re

disappointed! (/s)

[SF Republican]

they should make him gender neutral.

[twonie]

I don’t think Americans give a rat’s behind what the Asian journalists think right now - or ever, really. We calls ‘em like we sees ‘em. OK?

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Can we refer to him at Korean? Or as a legal Korean immigrant?

What's the Korean word for "country"? Some vets know but should not state.

[Biggirl]

I had to just close up the live stream at Foxnews.com the when the department head of English goes into what I call a “political agenda” in her poem, mentioning the AIDS baby, elephant, children and rouge armies, ete., not deserving to be attacked. Good grief, “PC” is going to be the distroyer of us.

[ckilmer]

The problem with this is that the shootings were in a heavily oriental dominated study area which is engineering.

However, all the people listed as killed were non oriental.

So the shooter would have had to do some serious sorting to get just the “right” people.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

ok, so I can see the news release the next time something like this happens..

FLASH: police want you to be on the lookout for a male suspected in (insert crime here) in (insert town name here). if you see a male, please contact police..

[fishtank]

They DO have a point...... he’s spent his life here in America since 1992 (8 years old).

His ethnic heritage has little to do with his behavior.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

As coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting continues to unfold, AAJA urges all media to avoid using racial identifiers unless there is a compelling or germane reason.

The compelling or germane reason is to provide an accurate report.

There is no evidence at this early point that the race or ethnicity of the suspected gunman has anything to do with the incident

No, there isn't. That doesn't mean omitting this information is warranted - a complete description of the perpetrator of such a tragedy is needed for any substantive journalistic coverage.

[Southerngl]

Awww jeez. So what do we call them now???

[Lazamataz]

This ASIAN-Korean ASIAN was ASIANly buying some ASIAN-style killing tools in a very ASIAN way to ASIANly kill some NON-ASIANs.

ASIAN.

[1rudeboy]

I had a journalism teacher/adviser (high-school) teach me much the same thing back in the early 80’s. Ethnic or racial characteristics were to be left out unless they have a bearing on the story. The above used to be the conservative way of looking at things . . . funny how it’s been completely reversed. I see the conservative response here (on FR) as a backlash against racial-identity politics.

[sageb1]

” the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) are stunned at the news of today’s shooting at Virginia Tech. Our thoughts are with the victims and their families and friends as they cope with this horrific incident.

As coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting continues to unfold, AAJA urges all media to avoid using racial identifiers unless there is a compelling or germane reason. There is no evidence at this early point that the race or ethnicity of the suspected gunman has anything to do with the incident, and to include such mention serves only to unfairly portray an entire people.”

Does anyone see the irony here?

[4yearlurker]

How about describing him as: “rhymes with Asian.”

[TC Rider]

I might go along with this provided they can show that 100% of their membership did not mention race regarding the Duke lacrosse rape allegations.