After seeing the video and the article “ABC’s Poltically Incorrect Tackles Comedian’s Chink joke”, I strongly agree with Guy Aoki and deeply appreciate his effort in trying to raise awareness to racism against Asian Americans. In the video, Sarah Silverman tried to justify her action that in her joke to include “I love Chink” is just for satire and humorous purposes. She believed that she shouldn’t be asked to apologize for such joke. However, in most Asian and Asian American, such joke shouldn’t be said because it is offensive and rude. For me, it isn’t a joke, instead an insult to people. It’s the same as making fun of someone’s appearance and bully people to treat it as a mere joke without thinking of the consequences. In my opinion, such kind of joke played on race is just dangerous. Despite how Silverman argue that there should be freedom of speech for people to say whatever they want, I strongly agree with Aoki that these kind of freedom of speech are just exercising ignorant speech that they seek to ‘educate’ the public with bad influences. For me, saying the world ‘chink’ is worse than an African American being called a N world. The N word is mainly referring to people’s skin color. However, the world ‘chink’ is associating all Asian, despite being Taiwanese, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian or Pilipino, is being associated with Chinese (PRC’s people). For me, this is just insulting. Anyway, this kind of word shouldn’t be used to justify a joke. A bad insult is an insult, not something people should laugh at.
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