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Yu Dum Fuk

May 19, 2009
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Hats off to U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), who wins my dipshit-of-the-week award for opposing a bill that would authorize about $5 million a year to protect rare cats and dogs (like snow leopards) in other countries.

Is he a dipshit because I think we should protect exotic kitty-cats? No. I'm not sure we should be spending money on that right now — if ever. (Of course, as something to keep Congress busy, it's probably relatively cheap on a minute-by-minute basis.)

No, Louie Gohmert is a dipshit because he thinks we should not authorize the funds because those fucking Chinamen would just eat the cats.

There is no assurance that if we did that we wouldn't end up with moo goo dog pan or moo goo cat pan.

Here's the video. Gohmert sounds like Gomer Pyle after being kicked in the head a few too many times.

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  1. Chris  •  May 20, 2009 @6:44 am

    I remember when I assumed that you had to be at least reasonably smart if you were in congress.

  2. Mike  •  May 20, 2009 @10:20 am

    I see the issue differently. If anything, the lack of outrage proves that Asian Americans "have arrived."

    Now, I know the guy was talking about China. If he had said, "savages" in Africa, or "pinata hitters" in Mexico, the American media would have thrown a fit. There'd have been protests lead by black and Hispanic special interest groups. High drama.

    Instead, he'll get a pass. Just as Rosie O'Donnell got a pass with her, "Ching, chang, chong, chong" comments. Asians, like whites, can be mocked. That seems to be a good thing.

    In America, Asians are viewed as…. well…. not minorities. "Minorities" are even now referred to as non-Asian minorities (NAMs) to so that everyone knows that Asians shouldn't get preferential treatment. No one, when mentioning affirmative action, thinks of Asians. If anything, Asians are now facing the same reverse discrimination whites face.

    So while I agree with your point that the guy if a fuck head, the lack of outrage in the media is cause for celebration. Asian Americans "have arrived." This peckerwood who plays banjos, fucks his cousins, and burns crosses on the weekend welcomes his Asian brothers and sisters to the club. Yee-haw!

  3. Robert  •  May 20, 2009 @8:18 pm

    @Mike: I'm going to have to disagree w/you there.

    By saying "Asians have arrived," I'm assuming you mean that "Asians have been accepted as part of the majority." Just b/c there is not outrage doesn't mean that the Asians have been fully accepted into the culture of the majority. I would attribute the lack of outrage more to the lack of a unified voice. There is no unified voice b/c the term "Asian" describes many ethnicities (e.g. Indian, Pakistani, Chinese, Vietnamese, etc.) of many differing cultures that are sometimes at odds w/each other for both good and bad reasons. There really is no one unified voice that represents all Asians.

    What you have said sounds like an extension of the "model minority" myth compounded with the idea that the term "Asian" is the proper descriptor for the people that are labeled as such. The idea that Asians have somehow "become" white, so to speak, is a false one that finds grounding in the notion that Asians have somehow beaten the odds and have, as a group, accomplished much more than other ethnic minorities. Because of that accomplishment, the majority has fully embraced Asians. I can't see that as being true. I would argue that the lack of media outrage over Rosie and this Congressional twit is just the opposite: the media and, by extension, the American majority does not give a shit about Asian-American issues.