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Comedian Shane Gillis’ return to “Saturday Night Live” has reignited a discussion about the way Asian jokes have persisted in comedy. Many are criticizing the sketch comedy show after it ...
In 2014, Rolling Stone ranked the sketch No. 10 in their list of the 50 "greatest Saturday Night Live sketches of all time", [3] while in 2011, Paste ranked it No. 5 in their list of the 10 "most shocking moments" [4] — an opinion shared by VH1. [5] Don Cheadle declared it one of his favorite sketches, [6] as did Keegan-Michael Key [7] and ...
Perceptions of ethnic jokes are ambivalent. Christie Davies gives examples that, while many find them racist and offensive, for some people jokes poking fun at one's own ethnicity may be considered acceptable. He points out that ethnic jokes are often found funny exactly for the same reason they sound racist for others; it happens when they ...
During his 12-minute set, Hinchcliffe made racist comments about Mexicans crossing the border and jokes about Jewish and Black people that used antisemitic and racist tropes.
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'Ching chong' emerged a slur around the time of the Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States. While usually intended for ethnic Chinese, the slur has also been directed at other East Asians. Mary Paik Lee , a Korean immigrant who arrived with her family in San Francisco in 1906, wrote in her 1990 autobiography Quiet Odyssey that on her first ...
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Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees" is a racist playground chant that has been used to mock children of Asian origin. One rendering of the chant is "Chinese/Japanese/Dirty Knees/Look at these Chinese Japanese/Dirty Knees". [ 1 ]