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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)
Thu May 24, 2018, 08:39 PM May 2018

Video shows the woman making a slant-eye gesture and yelling "Chinese ugly" at the Korean-American r

Source: Huffington Post

05/24/2018 05:52 pm ET Updated 1 hour ago
Woman Makes Racist Face At Asian-American Serviceman: ‘This Is Not Your F**ing Country’
By Kimberly Yam

A recent racist incident in Fremont, California, has the Asian-American community outraged.

James Ahn, a Korean-American member of the Air Force Reserve, was driving earlier this month when an unidentified woman in another car was caught on video pulling her eyes back and saying, “This is not your fucking country.”

Ahn shared the video on Facebook this past Monday, and it’s since been widely shared.

In the video, the woman can also be heard saying, “This is my country, this is not a Chinese. Oh my god, Chinese ugly.”



Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/woman-pulls-eyes-back-to-korean-american-serviceman-this-is-my-fking-country_us_5b06edcde4b05f0fc845fff9

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Video shows the woman making a slant-eye gesture and yelling "Chinese ugly" at the Korean-American r (Original Post) Judi Lynn May 2018 OP
I assign a good part of this shitty behavior to trump. (nt) Paladin May 2018 #1
Fremont, CA is one of the bluest parts of the USA oberliner May 2018 #3
This lady better get the peabody May 2018 #11
So are you saying the person is a Clinton voter? Kingofalldems May 2018 #12
No idea oberliner May 2018 #13
C'MON, SON!!! I guarantee I can find you Trump voters in the "most blue" of bullwinkle428 May 2018 #15
Yep. Clinton got 91% of the vote in DC Orangepeel May 2018 #19
That's true oberliner May 2018 #20
yep...he is enabling them.... dhill926 May 2018 #10
Does that asshole woman have children in her car? Laffy Kat May 2018 #2
I saw the disgusting video on twitter and that woman is one sick dae May 2018 #4
Listen carefully. Unless I am mistaken, that hateful woman... 3catwoman3 May 2018 #5
Sounds like a mock Chinese accent dalton99a May 2018 #7
YOu are likely right. 3catwoman3 May 2018 #8
She's Persian/Iranian cagefreesoylentgreen May 2018 #21
Thank you for this information. 3catwoman3 May 2018 #23
Trumpanzee will be identified dalton99a May 2018 #6
What is it about some white European-descendents that makes them think they are indigenous? BumRushDaShow May 2018 #9
Just another hate-filled butt-trumpet Haggis for Breakfast May 2018 #14
I've been assumed to be cagefreesoylentgreen May 2018 #22
I shared it on FB. Lifelong Protester May 2018 #16
More eyes! Thank you. I don't think she's going to make a lot of friends. n/t Judi Lynn May 2018 #18
And yet this racist probably has no problem with our President Marie Marie May 2018 #17

peabody

(445 posts)
11. This lady better get the
Thu May 24, 2018, 09:15 PM
May 2018

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hell out of Fremont, out of the entire Bay Area even if she doesn’t like Asians. This place has a very diverse population which for the most part lives together quite well.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
13. No idea
Thu May 24, 2018, 09:24 PM
May 2018

More that it's depressing that this sort of thing goes on in liberally minded parts of California - not just the deep south or the midwest and such.

bullwinkle428

(20,629 posts)
15. C'MON, SON!!! I guarantee I can find you Trump voters in the "most blue" of
Thu May 24, 2018, 10:12 PM
May 2018

any area of your choice! I've lived in or near Iowa City, an ultra-liberal college town, for 30+ years, and there are Trumpanzees in and around that town and every other similar place you could put your finger on across America.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
20. That's true
Fri May 25, 2018, 04:04 AM
May 2018

It's just somehow more disconcerting when this goes on in more liberal places with relatively few Trump voters.

Laffy Kat

(16,383 posts)
2. Does that asshole woman have children in her car?
Thu May 24, 2018, 08:43 PM
May 2018

There's no one else in the front and there is definitely at least one other person in the back. Did she seriously display that hatefulness in front of her children? Nice.

3catwoman3

(24,007 posts)
5. Listen carefully. Unless I am mistaken, that hateful woman...
Thu May 24, 2018, 08:53 PM
May 2018

...is speaking with what sounds like a non-American accent. I wonder what country she immigrated from.

21. She's Persian/Iranian
Fri May 25, 2018, 04:40 AM
May 2018

At least according to some details dug up through social media. She’s Asian herself, of the southwest variety, and not eastern.

BumRushDaShow

(129,120 posts)
9. What is it about some white European-descendents that makes them think they are indigenous?
Thu May 24, 2018, 09:06 PM
May 2018


A significant number of the loud mouths had ancestors who arrived here after the Civil War, and notably during WWI & II, and many of the ones they yell at had ancestors here well before these know-it-alls got off the boat.

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
14. Just another hate-filled butt-trumpet
Thu May 24, 2018, 09:59 PM
May 2018

Americans know virtually nothing about Asians. And most can't be buggered to learn. The majority couldn't identify the countries or regions that comprise Asia with a map and two flashlights. Even today, I still hear people say "Orientals" when talking about people from the Far East. (FYI, People -- "oriental" refers to rugs, usually made in Persia.)

With the exception of the stereotypical Asian on some sit-com on the telly, most Americans think Asians are all one huge homogeneous culture. Couldn't be more wrong. Anyone who has ever been stationed any where there can tell you, there are VAST differences between peoples: culture, language (Both spoken and written. Sometime, compare Vietnamese to Mandarin.), habits, societal norms, taboos, cuisine, and yes, most importantly - appearance, i.e., Asians do [/b]NOT all look the same, except to eyes that do not want to see or don't care to know.

This woman assumed that Mr. Ahn was Chinese. Why ? Of all of the dozens of possibilities, why did she choose Chinese ? I'm going to guess ignorance, with a huge side order of arrogance, and a topping of pure ugly. And I'm willing to bet she has never met a Chinese individual. Or a Korean.

My sincere apologies to you, Mr. Ahn, for this nasty, racist woman. Please know that some of us understand, revere and respect you and your culture.

22. I've been assumed to be
Fri May 25, 2018, 04:49 AM
May 2018

I’ve been assumed to be Japanese or Korean by white people, who are either being purposefully racist or well-meaning but still racist (I’m of Chinese descent). I’ve been assumed to not speak English even after I’ve opened my mouth and replied in perfect but heavily Texan-accented English.

Funny thing is, some Filipinos assume I’m also Filipino, and will try to speak to me in Tagalog. On the other hand, the Chinese tourists I encounter at my job always know I’m Chinese without fail.

Lifelong Protester

(8,421 posts)
16. I shared it on FB.
Thu May 24, 2018, 10:19 PM
May 2018

If she thought he was Chinese, I hope she was willing to toss out of the car all stuff in it made China. Including her clothes (ooh, eye bleach.)

Marie Marie

(9,999 posts)
17. And yet this racist probably has no problem with our President
Thu May 24, 2018, 10:22 PM
May 2018

rescuing jobs in China (at the expense of our security) because he got a good deal on a Trump Hotel from China. Oh my God, American ugly.

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