Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Blog it out

Rosie O'Donnell has finally apologized for making fun of Asians. Kind of. It was on her famously incomprehensible blog:

Ben writes:


You say how you dont understand what the fuss is about, but its hard 2 understand w/o having grown up Asian. Imagine a derogatory gay joke. If YOU got bent outta shape about it, I WOULD understand…

ben
i am sorry it hurt u
i didnt think of it the way it was taken
i will b more sensitive
promise

Allow me to offer up Channel Surfing's official retort:
rosie
u said my last name a lot during that bit
it wasnt very funny
but i liked u in league of their own
that was a while ago
The whole thing has made me think about how us "model minority" Asians aren't actually the only minority group left that it's OK to make fun. That's still handicapped people.

In case you missed it somehow:

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