This is another piece from The Young Turks on Trump’s stereotypical views of Asians, like the Chinese and Japanese. It’s a clip from one of his rallies, in which he states that people from these nations don’t come into a room and ask general questions about your health and the weather. No, they say, according to Mr Fascist Dictator Weird Hair, ‘We want deal’. In stereotypical pidgin English. Cenk Uygur, the host for this section, points out that this is how he sees them, including Americans of Chinese and Japanese descent. And he adds that you know that the offensive terms for these ethnic groups is going to follow. It’s all part of his highly simplistic attitude to the various peoples of the world, based on how they work for him. Here’s the video:
There’s still a lot of bitterness amongst Japanese-Americans about their internment as enemy aliens during the World War II. George Takei, who played Mr Sulu in the Classic Star Trek series, was part of a campaign for years to get some apology for this atrocity. Not that it was only Japanese, who were so interned. Germans and Italians were also thrown behind bars, but I think the Japanese were by far the largest group.
The man is so crass and tactless, that if he ever gets into the Oval Office, he’ll start a massive racial controversy, never mind his poisonous and Fascist attitude towards Hispanics and Muslims. For heaven’s sake, we need to keep him out.
Tags: Cenk Uygur, Chinese, Donald Trump, George Takei, Germans, Internment, Italians, Japanese, Mexicans, Muslims, racism, Star Trek, The Young Turks, World War II
February 10, 2016 at 11:08 pm |
Of course Churchill “collared the lot” of Italians Germans too. There were many Italians lost on Arandora Star sunk by U-boat in N.atlantic early WW2.
February 11, 2016 at 8:48 am |
Yeah. Weren’t a lot of them interned, along with British Nazis like the BUF on the Isle of Man? I hadn’t heard about the Italians killed on the Arandora Star by the U-boat. It doesn’t surprise me, though.