Originally posted by: DigDug
i hate this guy, i want to beat his ass everytime i see him on campus...
Why, cause he makes all asians look like dorks or something, Mr. Wong?
No, you can't hate HIM for that, you have to hate the people who embrace him because he fits a narrowly defined stereotype of male asian americans.
I would suspect that he hates him because well, he got a recording contract and cash =p
And I'd bet if he sold enough albums, he'd even get the chicks(money man...money).
And anyway, he would only make "all asians look like dorks" if people embraced one person's specific qualities and decided to apply it to all asians...which is of course, blatant stereotyping. Of course, that's also the reason why he's embraced anyway, because he happens to fit preexisting notions of the asians as dorks. So...
It makes me want to beat mickey rooney(breakfast at tiffany's). Except he's dead. So really, I can only desecrate his corpse at this point(unless he was cremated, in which case I can't even do that).
So in closing:
Don't hate the playa, hate the game!
William Hung=playa
Quietly Not Quite Outright Racist Society=the game
I'd say he's played the game quite well...I mean, can any of YOU parlay the stereotypes people have of people who look like you into a recording contract?
But obviously, there's something wrong with the game if this is how it has to be played. So if you dump your stereotypes of asians and get everybody else to do so, nobody would even give a rat's a$$ about Mr. Hung, because he wouldn't fit into any "stupid FOBy ch**k" stereotypes you have.
The end.