I had a friend drop me as a Facebook friend because I used the expression “Chinaman.” There’s nothing wrong with the term “Chinaman.” It’s the same as Australian man or Jewish man or black man or Englishman. <\/p>\n
There’s also nothing wrong with noting that different races have different physical characteristics.<\/p>\n
Bob Beckel is getting called out here for pointing out an important point — that China is our biggest competitor and maybe even enemy.<\/p>\n
State Senator Ted Lieu thinks he can profit from milking outrage. Asians used to be the model minority who didn’t get upset about things like this but in today’s tribal America, every tribe but whites is angling for advantage by posing as offended. <\/p>\n
The Santa Monica Mirror writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n State Senator Ted Lieu, who represents Santa Monica and much of the South Bay, today called on Fox News Host Bob Beckel to resign immediately after statements the Fox TV host made about Chinese people.<\/p>\n \u201cWe should all be alarmed by the racist, xenophobic comments by Fox News Host Bob Beckel,” Lieu said. “His comments have no place in America and this is at least the second time he has used racial slurs. He must resign immediately.”<\/p>\n Beckel said during a broadcast Thursday of \u201cThe Five\u201d that \u201cChinese are the single biggest threat to the national security of the U.S. \u2026 Do you know what we just did? As usual, we bring them over here and teach a bunch of Chinamen \u2013 err, Chinese people \u2013 how to do computers and then they go back to China and hack into us.\u201d<\/p>\n Last year, Mr. Beckel said that after he went swimming, his \u201ceyes blew up, and it made me look Oriental.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had a friend drop me as a Facebook friend because I used the expression “Chinaman.” There’s nothing wrong with the term “Chinaman.” It’s the same as Australian man or Jewish man or black man or Englishman. There’s also nothing … Continue reading