Posted by poop on November 25, 2001 at 01:50:53:
I'm sick and tired of the media thinking that it's O.K. to be racist toward Asians. MAD tv's racist portrayal of an Asian by a white actress ('Ms. Swan') should be unacceptable. MAD tv claimed that it's an 'equal opportunity offender'--what a crock! How many whites do you see in made up to look like blacks or hispanics on MAD tv or any other show? Equal opportunity offender, my ass! And Ms. Alex Borstein (a.k.a., 'Ms. Swan'), before you go out there again and stereotype Asian women as strange, slant-eyed, bowl-cut haired foreigners who work in nail shops, remember that the Nazis and other anti-Semites ALSO used the media to stereotype Jews (also as perpetual foreigners with strange features and weird accents, outsiders who worked only in certain industries)--a tactic that successfully promoted ignorance and fueled hate--to the detriment of millions of Jews.