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Suzy Lee Weiss, Rich Racist

May 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Suzy Lee Weiss sucks

The last time I ranted 3 weeks ago about politics as an excuse for personal flaws was shortly after that Suzy Lee Weiss, some privileged girl of super rich parents, wrote her now infamous editorial. That her sister works at the publication likely helped her to gain publication in that otherwise well-written publication. I tried for a solid month to not rant here about that rich white girl’s self-explainatory snobbery but Morgan Jerkings burning that excessively privileged girl inspired me to jump in with my own billionth rant to add to the stunningly caustic pile of editorials already out there.

How to chastize that privileged snooty girl?

  • take the high road? like an intellectual analysis?
  • take the low road? burn her with complete low brow language?
  • take the sarcastic road? like The Onion would?
  • take the blogger road? something really short & sensational then ask for comments?
  • take the principled road? say little?

I’ll even ignore her multiple Asian critiques which are red meat for a blog such as ours, but what could I possibly write to say more about her idiocacy and racism than she herself already has? She’s like 10 years of the ridiculousness of conservative talk radio boiled into 2 screenfuls.

In the end, I decided all those approaches were already done so I was left with nothing new. Suzy Lee Weiss proves that nothing can succeed against one who simply doesn’t care.

Filed Under: Education, Richard Chen

Dictionary: Immigration Reform

April 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Editor’s Note: Be sure to enter our blogathon about immigration reform. $300 in prizes await you.

Time for another dictionary, this time about immigration reform in light of AAA-Fund’s blogathon:

their soundbyte/political phrase what they mean
conservative GOP’s unspoken excuse for personal flaws especially racism and judgementalism
family values unless they’re from overseas
favor immigration reform as long as the money’s coming from the right lobbysts
prefer those from friendly nations they’d better not be Muslim
immigration is the lifeblood of the nation too much profit to be lost if we enforced current immigration policy
expedited traveller’s immigration programs (i.e. Global Entry) pay to play
enforce our borders hate Mexico & Muslim nations, others are ok

let those most qualified in if they make us money, great, else, doesn’t matter (i.e. families)
we can’t afford illegal immigrants’ cost on social services GOP never cared to fund social services to begin with
we need a consistent, clear policy GOP can institutionalize racism

Don’t be fooled.

Filed Under: Immigration, Richard Chen Tagged With: ,

China Bashing Unlimited: No Taiwanese Is Safe

February 27, 2013 By Leave a Comment

The below is inspired by Politico‘s “Tweets on Mitch McConnell’s wife’s ethnicity condemned” and their email broadcast about it yesterday (no static web copy). The topic is too important & timely to ignore, part of the continuous China-bashing by all for years, especially during election seasons, but regardless now that every day is campaign season.

LIBERAL SUPER PAC APOLOGIZES FOR TWEETS ABOUT McCONNELL’S ‘CHINESE’ WIFE – Phillip Bailey reports for WFPL in Louisville: “Hours after being roundly condemned by Democrats and Republicans, a liberal super PAC is apologizing to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s wife for a series of controversial Twitter messages. The group’s Tweets accused former Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, who was born in Taiwan, of moving American jobs to China and that her ‘Chinese (money)’ was buying state elections. Critics slammed the comments as racially offensive, and a national backlash against the group was ignited. Progress Kentucky executive director Shawn Reilly says they remain dedicated to educating voters about McConnell’s record, but their messages ‘included an inappropriate comment on the ethnicity’ of the former labor secretary.

“‘We apologize to the secretary for that unnecessary comment and have deleted the tweets in question. In addition, we have put a review process in place to ensure tweets and other social media communications from Progress Kentucky are reviewed and approved prior to posting,’ he says. Reilly had initially balked at expressing regret despite a spokesperson telling WFPL an apology was forthcoming. But after Democrats such as actress Ashley Judd, who is the rumored opponent for McConnell in 2014, denounced the Twitter messages Progress issued the apology late Tuesday evening.” http://bit.ly/Y09Fly

– The Super PAC had also suggested in tweets that McConnell was gay, reports BuzzFeed:”In two tweets, both of which have since been deleted, Progress Kentucky accused McConnell of being gay, including calling the Senate’s top Republican ‘a gay-bashing gay senator.’” http://bit.ly/12aqXov

While Progress Kentucky apologized, the list of China-bashing is endless, we could never cease writing about it. I write this post to shine just 1 of countless examples, but their numerous nature shouldn’t desensitize you or make you feel that’s tolerable or impossible to stop. Just an idealistic note against the money machine that prizes political donations above all, China bashing being a very successful tool therein.

Filed Under: Anti-AA Violence, APA Officeholders, Republican Party, Richard Chen

Religion & Politics Don’t Mix

February 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment

I’ve written for years about how the polarizing culture of politics has a dual-direction relationship with GOP Chritians. The article “The coming evangelical collapse” succinctly summarizes my very same view.

To repeat what’s been forgotten, polarizing is bad for religion & politics because:

  1. with us or against us attitude causes lack of debate, personal attacks, demonizing dissenting viewpoints, lower quality of rhetoric/soundbyting, binary logic; if you want medieval attitudes of conservatism, keep it in your church and out of the halls of our national elected leadership
  2. preaching to the choir: the polarization does what its own definition means: splits, segregates and divides; conservative types use religion and politics as justifications for their personal flaws especially including racism; they don’t want to spread the word as much as to force their beliefs down your throat
  3. emphasizing the fire, the heated anger, the hot personal attacks disables one from credibly defending either the policy (not the politics) or the faith; you don’t need many more YouTube videos of fiery evangelicals unable to explain their own religion or GOP Christians unable to article their own party’s policy (whether Tea Party or GOP, doesn’t matter, equally confusing for the uneducated incurious mind)

Are these not worrisome? Lack of comments suggests so. Are we that unthinking?

– Richard Chen

Filed Under: Religion, Richard Chen

Anti-Asian violence recap

January 22, 2013 By 2 Comments

Warning, this article and its links contain disturbing and graphic content.

It all started with the killing of an Asian man with the graphic New York Post cover (interestingly, from an Asian photographer) by a mentally ill man. Not only was it shameless New York tabloid fodder that set a new low in an already low industry desperate for readership, but they couldn’t even give the wife’s and daughter’s funeral privacy.

A week later, a mentally ill woman shoved an Asian man onto another set of New York City subway tracks. Caulk her up to a toxic result of political, religious and ethic hate. That topic deserves its own post about political extremism feeding the already pliable and paranoid tendencies of the mentally ill.

Last week in Philadelphia’s Chinatown, a mentally ill robber assaulted, robbed then threw a woman onto the subway tracks. No identity of the victim, yet.

In that same city today, Dr. Melissa Ketunti, a half Thai female pediatrician, was found duct taped, bound and burned to death in her own home’s basement.

One has to wonder how much other anti-Asian violence is out there without all this high-profile publicity. Very sickening. Publicize for the sake of justice.

Filed Under: Anti-AA Violence, Media, Richard Chen

Hijacking Asian-Americans For Politics

January 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment

non-racist Beaver with racist Bill O'Reilly

In case you missed it because mainstream media can’t make much profit off anti-racism, Colleen Hanabusa (disclaimer: she was an AAA-Fund endorsed candidate). It’s lovely to hear O’Reilly enforce the usual but politically vetted talking points that hard-working is only for conservatives then to use another engineered stereotype, the model minority, to claim Asian-Americans should be conservative. Cheap degrading politics. The definition of conservative is:

Holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in politics or religion.

Unfortunately, not only is O’Reilly re-defining conservative to mean racist and other conservative traits I listed before, but he’ll make racist attacks and sweeping generalizations even half lies to advance his for-profit media politics. Disgusting. He’ll have to do a show on fellow nutbag Jack Wu of Westboro Baptist Church who practices the same racism except uses religion not politics to justify his racism.

To remind conservatives of what we here at the AAA-Fund live, believe & practice, Asians are not the new Jews, we are an entire community which is not homogenous and has distinct histories/circumstances. Younger generations tend to see themselves more as “Asian-American” probably because their experience growing up here is far more similar to one another then that of their parents who immigrated here from varying circumstances, something conservatives rather erase or ignore.

Filed Under: Media, Religion, Richard Chen

National Grieving Ends

December 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
jesus with gun as idolatry

What would Jesus say to the NRA? That article already writes more eloquently than I about that question and answer, so I add reflection on how far religion and politics, often the same thing, has gone from what might’ve been its original intent & message.

It’s obvious pro-gun folks, like their conservative bretheren, are closed to debate, self-justifying, extremist, ideological, forceful (pushiness is needed in evangelicizing), vindictive & narrow-minded. I already said in a past post how many of these traits are those of evangelical Christians & other similar types who use religion to justify their personal flaws.

Since the aforementioned article is so gentle about poo-pooing the pro-gun folks, I’ll use a more barbed approach by throwing the onre onto the evangelicals:

  • you “save lives” by arguing about fetuses then ignore their being shot? are you a hypocrite? nice
  • you spread your message all around the world yet the world laughs at your gun-loving culture which, in case you never traveled outside the US except to do a short-term missions (which was more for you than for others, but we won’t get into that here), all prefer gun control because they’re not just industrialized but civilized; so much for exceptionalism as good; are you a hypocrite? nice
  • you tithe 10% (a membership fee, not charity) yet did you ever think about if we didn’t spend on war like a porn addict does on porn, we might just generate more funds for social good than war? you want to talk values, how about that one? are you a hypocrite? nice
  • you yelp God is the only answer (and not, say, doctors, actual laws, stuff like that) yet want the government to force your own narrow beliefs on others? are you a hypocrite? nice
  • you claim the New Testament is what makes you so different from the Jews yet love that Old Testament violence, especially the eye for an eye part? are you a hypocrite? nice
  • you claim love yet a week after Newtown, did you already forget, practicing bullshit national grieving? are you a hypocrite? nice

Step. Comment.

Filed Under: Civil Rights/Liberties, New York, Richard Chen

Christian Ignorance

December 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment

One of the billion reactions to today’s sickening news, I skip that Huckabee junk which is self-explainatory & focus on what feces my Christian friends have been throwing into the instantly reignited debate over gun policy.

One said evil will always reign & that means whether gun policy or not won’t really matter. While evil will always be around in some form, that argument doesn’t preclude more intelligent gun policy. That assumes guns are equivalents of knives which is a medieval, unintelligenced & primitive thought. We can do better as human beings. Lack of thought is why the US is primitive. I prefer to leave such uneducated, unintelligent & unthinking people behind as their ignorance & simplistic thought literally threatens us all, allowing killing. They practice the same kind of fearmongering and ignorance that permeates both their religion and their politics. Dispicable.

Such people probably enjoy the American exceptionalism as they think we should always be exceptional from religious fervor to standards system to gun-loving fanaticism, but I don’t care for their grabbing for identity & wish they’d just stick to their religion instead of others topics like politics. More guns, more deaths. Even a homeschooled Christian kid can understand that right? They practice the same kind of divisiveness that their religion promotes (with Jesus or Hellbound is their worldview) and their politics. Dispicable.

Other went the good old evil is always here so let’s love route which sounds cute until you read such articles and realize it’s just another excuse to prosyletize. Excuse me, but that smacks of extreme insensitivity when you use an opportune moment to shove one’s beliefs onto temporarily weak others, though this favored technique has worked well for Christians, inviting crazies who’ll take evangelicalism to the next level of fervor and adherent loyalty. They practice the same kind of blind thoughtless loyalty that permeates both their religion and their politics (that, to the GOP). Dispicable.

Then there were those who went to defend their hunting rifles and being weekend warriors with their weapons because they live in areas where that’s the highest form of recreation. If that’s your gig, great, just don’t let your personal persuits force dumb, imprecise, lethal-promoting policy. They practice the same kind of shoving their beliefs down others throats in both their religion and their politics. Discpicable, again.

You can see why progressivism, the blend of politics which our blog’s parent, the AAA-Fund organization, daily works to support & advance. I don’t think that our work here at the blog which is meant to advance the parent organization’s work, is merely theoretical, hopeful or remote. It has very real implications & I think that is what I can add to the flood of reactions on this very difficult day.

On a personal note, God bless the souls of the lost. As Obama’s quoted press briefing yesterday:

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

Ps 34:18

Filed Under: Religion, Richard Chen

Why I Vote for Obama 2012

November 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Those who know me know I am all about details, precision planning, credible details with proof & reality checks. That said, here’s why I’m voting as I will:

For measure, some things I don’t are about:

  • that everyone says Obama will very likely win by landslide especially among AAPIs (much is said about the power, participation, and presence or lack thereof each election but personally, that’s not a factor when I vote); I can think for myself without the official political dribble

So there you have it. Go register, be a poll monitor, vote & join a viewing party.

I voted for Obama
Filed Under: 2012 Presidential, Religion, Richard Chen

Justice for Private Danny Chen Part 2/2

October 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Private Danny Chen

Today is the 1st anniversary of the hazing and death of Private Danny Chen. We still seek just for Danny Chen. Our friends at OCA NYC have led 7 thoughtfully planned and left many actions items at Facebook Page & Tumblr.

Anti-AAPI violence comes in many forms. For our many AAPI service members and those who’ll join them in the future, never forget and to prepare by sharing your resources in the comments below.

Also let’s remember Harry Lew who died in similarly barbaric circumstances.

Filed Under: Anti-AA Violence, Richard Chen Tagged With:
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