Thursday, November 29, 2012

Asian racism

  • At UCLA, Racist, Sexist Signs Called Asian Women 'White-Boy Worshipping ...

    UCLA police are investigating racist, sexist slurs attacking Asian women that were found on campus this week. On Tuesday, a student found a sign that read "asian women R Honkie white-boy worshipping Whores" attached to a Vietnamese Student Union ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Students cite racist encounters in push for Asian cultural center

    Faculty members, graduate and undergraduate students have come together to form a steering committee to draft a petition to ask Purdue to build an Asian and Asian-American cultural center. Asian-American Association vice president Victoria Loong, ...

    www.purdueexponent.org

  • 'Red Dawn' Spurs Anti-Asian Tweets

    Days after the release of the "Red Dawn" remake, which swapped the 1982 original's Soviet threat for a modern-day Asian invasion, hateful, fearful and mocking messages have begun popping up on Twitter, the Internet's default channel for off-the-cuff ...

    blogs.wsj.com

  • Racism is a Problem in the Modern NBA

    Racism is a Problem in the Modern NBA. Racism is a problem in the modern day NBA; just ask Jeremy Lin. Lin is Asian-American, as well as the first American born player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent to play in the NBA. He has faced heavy criticism for ...

    www.rantsports.com

  • Kungfusion: Asian Stereotyping in Videogames

    Because there aren't any. And why is that? Well that is a more difficult question to answer. The lack of Asian figures in popular culture today may be connected to a long history of anti-Asian racism in America. Indeed, Asian immigrants were persecuted ...

    gamingillustrated.com

  • Labour complains to police over leaflet's 'closet racists' claim

    "Dear residents," the single sheet of A4 began, "On Thursday the 29th November every voter and most importantly every Muslim and Asian family in Rotherham will have the opportunity to send a message to the sickening racism, Islamophobia and corruption ...

    www.guardian.co.uk

  • Happy "Too Asian": a celebration of Asian Canadian activism

    This event is presented by Solidarity Committee Against Anti-Asian Racism (SCAAAR), the cross-Canada network of scholars, students, writers, activists and community partners who came together in protest to petition against the Maclean's Magazine ...

    www.vancouverobserver.com

  • Accusations of racism a little lost in translation

    You can test this at home by converting to the faith, which is substantially simpler than converting to black or Asian or white.

    www.heraldsun.com.au

  • Students demand more action against racism at Purdue

    The additional initiatives include items such as adding an Asian and Asian-American cultural center to campus and addressing how president-designate Mitch Daniels plans to approach issues of racism and diversity. "We're resubmitting the petition to the ...

    www.purdueexponent.org

  • Racism in football: 'Problems still exist at grassroots level'

    Labour MP John Mann, speaking to 5 Live Investigates, says complaints he regularly receives from black, Asian and Jewish players make him doubt the Prime Minister's claim that Britain has led the world in kicking racism out of football. The English FA ...

    www.bbc.co.uk

  • Stoffa: 'Cloud Atlas' is not really racist

    Is it racist for a white man to portray another race in a movie nowadays? Despite the wonderful story offered in "Cloud Atlas," the movie is being hit with mixed reviews; unsurprising given the fickle nature of critics.

    www.iowastatedaily.com

  • Is the NHS Racist? Health Service Challenged on Lack of Black and Asian Bosses

    Hari Sewell called for action to fix Black MInority Ethnic (BME) under-representation in the upper echelons of the institution, after spending years working in NHS organisations across London.

    www.ibtimes.co.uk

  • Race row PCs cleared: Met Police officers walk free after not guilty verdict ...

    Prosecutors claimed the case revealed a culture of racism in the Victim Offenders Location Time (VOLT) team which was based in Newham, one of the most ethnically diverse areas of the country.

    www.mirror.co.uk

  • 01 The wrong of blaming the admissions test

    But Stuyvesant High School's mostly Asian student body renders hollow and misguided and absurd the LDF and other complainants' accusation of racism. Students are not being "excluded" from these elite schools by reason of their "race" or ethnicity or ...

    www.ebony.com

  • The Utility of Race Jokes

    The online magazine "The Harvard Voice" was the talk of the town recently thanks to an offensive post by an anonymous blogger about Asian students at recruiting events. The crème de la crème of the post's racist descriptions of Asians include, "they're ...

    www.thecrimson.com

  • How Not to Appeal to Asian Americans

    Indeed, it's hard to miss the outright racism in Murray's argument. From treating Asian Americans as a monolith, to implicitly denigrating the values of other minorities, and outright dismissing the preferences of Asian Americans as nothing more than ...

    prospect.org

  • The help proposed by Rotherham council to a white girl abused by Asian men ...

    "Then one of them said, 'Well, Ukip have got racist policies'. The implication was that we were racist. [The social worker] said Ukip does not like European people and wants them all out of the country to be returned to their own countries" (my emphasis).

    www.catholicherald.co.uk

  • Asia trip gives Obama opportunity to build legacy

    Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, racist or sexually-oriented language. PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK. 2 Don't Threaten.

    www.dailyastorian.com

  • Dunlevy: The race is off

    Pointing out instances of racism is a tricky business these days, with Barack Obama re-elected for a second term and everyone supposedly living in harmony.

    www.montrealgazette.com

  • Mailbag: Racism showing through

    Bill O'Reilly's racism is showing when he says (Nov. 9) that the people who voted for Obama were all on "some kind of government largesse," while those "avidly competing in the marketplace" voted for Romney.

    democratherald.com

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