Evening Update | Alexandra Wallace has released an apology.
A white student’s video mocking Asians at UCLA has gone viral since it was posted to YouTube on Friday.
There’s a Facebook group, a bunch of response videos (some funny-but-unfortunately-sexist, some just gross, and some totally righteous), a tut-tutting statement from the university, a Y U NO meme, and on and on and on.
The inevitable AutoTune remix is really catchy, by the way. Be warned.
The full transcript can be found at Angry Asian Man, but here are some excerpts for those in a rush to fill out their bingo cards.
- So we know that I’m not the most politically correct person so don’t take this offensively.
- I don’t mean it toward any of my friends. I mean it toward random people that I don’t even know in the library.
- The problem is these hordes of Asian people that UCLA accepts into our school every single year.
- Their moms and their brothers and their sisters and their grandmas and their grandpas and their cousins and everybody that they know that they’ve brought along from Asia with them.
- You will always see old Asian people running around this apartment complex every weekend. That’s what they do.
- Hi, in America we do not talk on our cell phones in the library.
- Ohhhh, ching chong ling long ting tong. Ohhhhh.
- I swear they’re going through their whole families, just checking on everybody from the tsunami thing.
- Even if you’re not Asian you really shouldn’t be on your cell phone in the library but I’ve just never seen that happen before.
- So thank you for listening and have a nice day.
That’s going to leave a mark. More to come, I assume.
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March 14, 2011 at 11:32 am
Silver Fang
That’s funny as hell. I know I’d be passed if someone started talking on their phone in the library.
March 14, 2011 at 11:02 pm
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March 19, 2011 at 2:27 pm
Kevin T. Keith
I’m sorry to say I just found out about this whole thing, reading this blog. Oy . . .
Hard to know where to start with all this . . . . Aside from the obvious, I really liked “so don’t take this personally”, “I mean it toward random people I don’t even know”, and “OUR school”.
I will say I burst out laughing at “I’ll be in like deep into my studying, into my political science theories and arguments and all that stuff, . . . and then all of a sudden when I’m about to like reach an epiphany . . .”.
Apparently she’s now reached an epiphany of another kind. Hard to by sympathetic.