{"id":4188,"date":"2008-02-22T03:05:09","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T10:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/?p=606"},"modified":"2008-02-22T03:05:09","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T10:05:09","slug":"if-it%e2%80%99s-a-war-this-honky-wants%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4188","title":{"rendered":"If It\u2019s A War This Honky Wants\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/p>\n<p>Holy fucking shit!  Just finished <a href=\"http:\/\/2xconsciousness.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/holy-fuck.html\">posting this <\/a>at my blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This was actually in a campus newspaper! I believe it&#8217;s an independent newspaper, not affiliated with the University of Colorado journalism department (thank God!) but it is a newspaper none the less for the UC community.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll get straight to the point.  Here is<a href=\"http:\/\/media.www.thecampuspress.com\/media\/storage\/paper1098\/news\/2008\/02\/18\/Opinion\/If.Its.War.The.Asians.Want-3216954.shtml\"> an excerpt <\/a>from the Campus Press&#8217;s recent Op-Ed piece titled &#8220;If it&#8217;s a war the Asians want&#8230;&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m such a fool for not realizing it sooner. I can&#8217;t tell you how many times the Asians have treated me like a retarded weasel and I&#8217;ve forgiven them. But now I know that Asians are not just &#8220;a product of their environment,&#8221; and their rudeness is not a &#8220;cultural misunderstanding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They hate us all.<\/p>\n<p>And I say it&#8217;s time we started hating them back. That&#8217;s right-no more &#8220;tolerance.&#8221; No more &#8220;cultural sensitivity.&#8221; No more &#8220;Mr. Pretend-I&#8217;m-Not-Racist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for war.<\/p>\n<p>But we won&#8217;t attack their bodies or minds. We will attack their souls.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Than the newspaper gave a <a href=\"http:\/\/media.www.thecampuspress.com\/media\/storage\/paper1098\/news\/2008\/02\/20\/News\/Letter.From.The.Editors-3223782.shtml\">half-assed apology<\/a> saying it was &#8220;satire:&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Angry Asian Man <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angryasianman.com\/2008\/02\/student-column-if-its-war-asians-want.html\">blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What is wrong with this guy? Is he really asking for it? The article appeared in the opinion section of the paper&#8217;s website, is apparently supposed to be satirical&#8230; but is it really? If you ask me, the guy is trying to vent some of his own frustrations and hate with the Asian student population at his school. &#8220;The Asians.&#8221; Here&#8217;s a link to the actual column: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecampuspress.com\/home\/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&amp;ustory_id=c07cea4a-0e65-4465-a9c4-17d6deb357e8\"><b>If it&#8217;s war the Asians want&#8230;<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>That&#8217;s racist!<\/i> It&#8217;s ugly. He goes on to outline his &#8220;plan&#8221; for attacking the Asian soul. I think he&#8217;s trying to be funny. He&#8217;s not. I&#8217;m not trying to fan to the flames here, since it&#8217;s obvious Karson is the kind of guy who writes this stuff to get attention for his pathetic aspiring journalism career. But damn, this guy is a true flaming idiot. Sadly, I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a future place for him at Fox News.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jenn at APA for Progress <a href=\"http:\/\/apaforprogress.org\/wordpress\/?p=80\">comments<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Wow. Max Karson,\u00a0a columnist at Colorado University, wrote a \u201csatirical\u201d piece in the campus newspaper declaring a war on Asian students. Pronouncing that Asians \u201chate us\u201d (because, of course, Asians can\u2019t actually <i>be<\/i> \u201cus\u201d), Karson advocates a ridiculous three-phased attack on Asian students, chock full of ludicrous anti-Asian stereotypes.<\/p>\n<p>Or at least it would be ridiculous if the fantastical plan didn\u2019t seem so reminiscent of extraordinary rendition and a mass lynching.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If this piece is supposed to be satire, than Karson is a terrible writer, unworthy of the energy it took to put ink to paper.\u00a0But this column is not satire: it is a racism-fueled hate fantasy that should make the Asian American students of CU fearful and angry at just how intolerant their campus really is.<\/p>\n<p>I urge each of you to write a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecampuspress.com\/home\/lettertotheeditor\/\">Letter to the Editor<\/a> of Campus Press, and CC a copy to Max Karson (<a href=\"mailto:max.karson@colorado.edu\">max.karson@colorado.edu<\/a>). Include a copy of your letter in the comments of this thread for Instant Activism Karma(tm).<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a template. Edit (or just copy-and-paste it on to Campus Press) as you so desire<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Joe Nguyen <a href=\"http:\/\/cupoj.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/karsons-poor-choice-of-words.html\">comments<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There hasn&#8217;t been a worst decision to run a column this bad since Asian Week ran Kenneth Eng&#8217;s, &#8220;Why I hate blacks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But should it be surprising that Karson is stirring up trouble? This is the same man who made controversial remarks about the Virginia Tech massacre and has a history of pushing the boundaries with his columns.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/categories\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/606\/\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/tags\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/606\/\" \/> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/606\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/606\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/606\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/606\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/606\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/606\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/606\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/606\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/606\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/606\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blogbullet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=743885&amp;post=606&amp;subd=blogbullet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy fucking shit!  Just finished posting this at my blog:<br \/>\nThis was actually in a campus newspaper! I believe it&#8217;s an independent newspaper, not affiliated with the University of Colorado journalism department (thank God!) but it is a newspaper none the less for the UC community.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll get straight to the point.  Here is an [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4188\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-racism-and-related-issues","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}