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Asians are Too Kind?

KIND OF A SENSITIVE-ISH TOPIC SO...YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO.

I recently watched a Ryan Higa (nigahiga on Youtube) sort-of-a-vlog about his view on Steve Harvey's jokingly comment about Asian men. This comedian said that he does not find Asian guys attractive. Of course, there was an uproar from the Asian community following this.

Some may say "let it go, his job is to make jokes" but still, in a way, his joke would be viewed as a little bit too far. 

Ryan Higa opened a thought-provoking point when it comes to races and jokes. 

Why is it when a remotely offensive joke is targeted to Black people, it's quickly perceived as extremely unacceptable and kind of racial profiling but, when it comes to Asian jokes, it appears to be okay to do it?

You have heard the jokes: the small eyes, the accent, the names so hard to pronounce, the lack of ability in driving...

Ryan Higa mentioned this article from ESPN about Jeremy Lin entitled "Chink in the armor". I did a little research about it. Turns out, that title is an idiom from ancient times which basically means that person's Achilles' heel aka weakness. The article was referring to Jeremy Lin's wavering performance from having numerous wins. 

ESPN was saying that the article title did not mean to refer to Lin's Asian descent. Basically, the word chink is the N-word for Asians. They were just commenting about his performance in the sport. But, since the more well-known meaning of the word is the derogatory racial slur, it caused a negative response. Unfortunately, the article's writer got fired.

So, going back to that italicized question.... 

OK..HERE COMES THE SENSITIVE PART. THIS IS JUST MY OPINION. MY BEST GUESS. GUESS. OPINION. AYT?

In my opinion, the probable reason Asian jokes are easily said because Asians did not have globally-known historical events as brutal as the slavery on the Black race, or as inhumane as the Holocaust on the Jews. MAYBE, people think Asians are these kind and tame people that would not think of retaliating or start big protests and would prefer to mind their own businesses. Like yeah there was the Vietnam war, the Korean war, but WWI and WW2 were bigger and both of these were centered in Europe. 

I hope you, reader, saw my point. 

The thing is, from the topic discussed here, there seems to be some kind of double standard.

It's like society sees it as "it's ok for this party but not ok for that party" kind of thing. Interesting, eh?

Oh well, what do you think?