AsianWeek Under Fire
OK I'm temporarily bustin out of my holiday hiatus to throw down and knock some heads around. I’m sure you are all aware of the now infamous article by Kenneth Eng entitled “Why I Hate Blacks” in AsianWeek on February 23, 2007.
Within a week a tremendous wave of anger and shock from many civil rights organizations, including Asian American ones, swept across the media denouncing the article. And rightfully so. Eng’s piece is filled with hateful stereotypes and displays an abysmal knowledge of even the basic facts of history.
Unfortunately this article was not the first to upset those who read AsianWeek.
In an earlier column (January 12, 2007), “Why I Hate Asians,” he openly describes himself as an “Asian Supremacist.” For a person who claims to detest suffering under the effects of racism, he sure has a funny way of demonstrating it. In place of insulting African Americans through the use of stereotypes, here he belittles the struggles of Asian Americans by using the unfortunately all too familiar stereotypes of Asian people being ineffectual and docile. He concludes that he loves “the Asian race” despite the fact that “every race has its inferiors.” So what we have here is an arrogant elitist who fights racism with more racism. How pathetic.
Finally, there is his column “Proof That Whites Inherently Hate Us” (November 24, 2006). He uses this topic as an excuse to attack African Americans. If Whites are the villains, why does the largest part of his criticism focus on African Americans and how the Whites lionize their struggles. His evidence to support his views is criminally selective. Furthermore he explains away White racist attitudes as a product of evolution. Evolution! Such notions of applying evolution to human society were decried as far back as Charles Darwin himself. Of course, such ignorance does not stop Eng from spewing his venomous diatribes.
Let Kenneth Eng express his narrow mindedness somewhere else. Why AsianWeek published his hate-filled articles in the first place should be beyond any rational thinking person, regardless of political persuasion. Anyone who read his blog would know that he is completely filled with hate for everyone.He brings no qualifications to the table, unless one wants to count shallowness, ignorance, irritableness, and racism as assets. As a publication that claims to be the “voice of Asian Americans,” the editors of AsianWeek should be ashamed of themselves. AsianWeek does not represent me and my views. Kenneth Eng and Editor-in-Chief, Samson Wong, should be fired.
Shame on you, AsianWeek! Shame on you.
Within a week a tremendous wave of anger and shock from many civil rights organizations, including Asian American ones, swept across the media denouncing the article. And rightfully so. Eng’s piece is filled with hateful stereotypes and displays an abysmal knowledge of even the basic facts of history.
Unfortunately this article was not the first to upset those who read AsianWeek.
In an earlier column (January 12, 2007), “Why I Hate Asians,” he openly describes himself as an “Asian Supremacist.” For a person who claims to detest suffering under the effects of racism, he sure has a funny way of demonstrating it. In place of insulting African Americans through the use of stereotypes, here he belittles the struggles of Asian Americans by using the unfortunately all too familiar stereotypes of Asian people being ineffectual and docile. He concludes that he loves “the Asian race” despite the fact that “every race has its inferiors.” So what we have here is an arrogant elitist who fights racism with more racism. How pathetic.
Finally, there is his column “Proof That Whites Inherently Hate Us” (November 24, 2006). He uses this topic as an excuse to attack African Americans. If Whites are the villains, why does the largest part of his criticism focus on African Americans and how the Whites lionize their struggles. His evidence to support his views is criminally selective. Furthermore he explains away White racist attitudes as a product of evolution. Evolution! Such notions of applying evolution to human society were decried as far back as Charles Darwin himself. Of course, such ignorance does not stop Eng from spewing his venomous diatribes.
Let Kenneth Eng express his narrow mindedness somewhere else. Why AsianWeek published his hate-filled articles in the first place should be beyond any rational thinking person, regardless of political persuasion. Anyone who read his blog would know that he is completely filled with hate for everyone.He brings no qualifications to the table, unless one wants to count shallowness, ignorance, irritableness, and racism as assets. As a publication that claims to be the “voice of Asian Americans,” the editors of AsianWeek should be ashamed of themselves. AsianWeek does not represent me and my views. Kenneth Eng and Editor-in-Chief, Samson Wong, should be fired.
Shame on you, AsianWeek! Shame on you.
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