If people want to call to leave a complaint with ABC about this, here is the phone number and directory info for The View.

This information is openly available on ABC’s on website, so I’m not doing anything sneaky, just making it easier for others who want to make their voices heard.

+1 (818) 460-7477 Menu 2>4>849

NB: You’re limited to 30 seconds.

This is how you really make fun of Asians:

http://youtouchmywiiwii.ytmnd.com/

I am also surprised with the applause after she said it. Was it that laudable?

hibiscus: I don’t believe your identity.

I’m Asian American and this offends me. 100% of my Asian friends and collegues are mildly to severly offended by this. I think you really have to be Asian having raised in the U.S. to understand, I really do. I feel that no other minority group in the U.S. is so openly mocked on a regular basis as are the “Orientals.” This entire incident made me realize just how far we still have to go as a people. It’s sad that the general “non-Asian” public, even on the “Japundit” forum, fail to recognize how demeaning this really is. Funny or not funny, doesn’t matter. She made a mockery of our identity, period. I guess you really have to grow up as a minority in this country, experience being ridiculed for who you are as a person, in order to be bothered by this “humor.”

It she had stereotypically imitated a black man referencing to the people reacting to Danny DeVito in Africa… just imagine what would happen. Asians are afterall, and always will be, the quiet minority.

You are absolutely correct SCM.

In the U.S., only groups that go totally bat shit over every real and imagined slight are shown any respect.

Look everyone knows… If you want political clout in the United STates, form a group and call a celebrity a racist…

I’m sorry if anyone was offended by this. But come on… If she used a SLUR against Asian PEOPLE by calling them yellow or something of that sort that would be inexcusable…

But seriously if I get my black American accent on here by saying “Damn bitch.. Where’s my friend chicken?”, does THAT make me a racist??

Come on guys, lighten up… No big deal. It was stupid of her, it wasn’t racist…

Abu, I agree with you in that Rosie is a fatass bull dyke…

But if we see a Simpsons Episode where Mister Sparkle is playing, is he makign fun of the Japanese?

I know its not cool what she did, but it doesn’t make her a racist. I’m not a Rosie apologist but I do think we need to lighten up a bit here people. We make Mexican accents all the time, we make fun of black-america’s way of speaking all the time… How is this more unacceptable then the others? When the other things happen we call it comedy. Now suddenly this is racism? Geeze dude, if we can’t laugh at our differences, we’re in big trouble…

Just lighten up already… come on..

Abu, indeed we can agree on the brilliance of Mr. Sparkle and Rosie.

I do agree that parody and satire require an intelligent point of view to present it properly. Spouting the words she did quite clearly demonstraited her unsophisticated sense of humor.

Of this there can be no denial.

I would simply add that racism, in so much as I understand it, needs to have a sense of thinking lesser of the person. One calls some one a “N****” because he thinks pourly or less of them.

I don’t think that was Rosie’s intention.

There was a heated conversion over at Gothamist about this yesterday too, and if u look at the comments, u’ll see that New Yorkers are pretty damn racists too!

My first impression to the video was “her face is so fugly I want to puke!“… Personally, I think the way she said it was pretty demeaning to us Chinese, coz that’s exactly how I experience it in my daily life here in NYC. I live in Astoria, which is a pretty hip neighbourhood w/ a mix of old Greek & Italian immigrants and young hippie couples. I’ve gotten Ching Chong’ed at by these Greek / Italian ADULTS!! (Never had that happened to me in Seattle after I left high school!) I found one comment to be pretty well put:

b:your comment reminds me of an incident from a few months ago. i was on broadway, just south of canal, when i walked by a black guy. he said “ching chong” to me (i’m a chinese female) and i thought “if i said ooga booga to you, you’d get upset so why are you saying ching chong to me?”

Jokes are jokes when you understand the truth, and you twist & exaggerate it to make it funny. What she did was no different than the Japanese making fun of gaijins by pretending to suffocate from body odor or something…

Now if you wanna see a really funny mockery of the Chinese language, you gotta see Russell Peters! Drop dead funny!!

wow… Rosie apologized. I certainly didn’t expect this. Whether the apology was deemed accountable or not, if your actions were hurtful to someone, in this case to hundreds of thousands of people, the moral thing to do is to apologize. It doesn’t matter if you think something you did wasn’t a big deal. You’re only pouring gas on the fire not to mention showing further lack of rectitude by saying to those offended to ‘lighten-up.’ She did the right thing regardless of her intentions.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=T0O_AuhP23E

Amazing what a simple apology can do. Although still obnoxious, now I actually wish her further success on the View.. Just think what a sincere apology could do to a lot of our global abiding altercations between nations.

cloneofskake: thanks for posting that, I sat watching the entire thing LAUGHING MY ASS OFF! I swear I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time. “Anthony by day… TsupsumBong by night!”

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