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A UCLA studentequipped with a dorm room, a pushup bra, a webcam and two minutes fifty-two seconds too much free time -- managed to ignite a "K...
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A UCLA studentequipped with a dorm room, a pushup bra, a webcam and two minutes fifty-two seconds too much free time -- managed to ignite a "Kill the Beast"-caliber Internet mob in a matter of hours on Sunday afternoon.
As reports of thousands more deaths and unthinkable destruction in the aftermath of Japan's 9.0 earthquake streamed in, Wallace made the reputation-shattering decision to take her beef with "these hordes of Asian people that UCLA accepts into our school every year" public:
The lowlights (pretty much the entire thing):
"So we know that I'm not the most politically correct person, so don't take this offensively..."
"If you're going to come to UCLA, then use American manners."
"Seriously, without fail, you will always see old Asian people running around this apartment complex every weekend. That's what they do -- they don't teach their kids to fend for themselves." "You know what they don't also teach them? Is their manners. Which brings me to my next point: Hi. In America, we do not talk on our cell phones in the library! I swear, every five minutes I will be -- OK, not five minutes, say like, 15 minutes -- I'll be like deep into my studying, into my political-science theories and arguments and all that stuff, getting it all down, like typing away furiously, blah blah blah... and then all of a sudden, when I'm about to like, reach an epiphany -- over here from somewhere, 'OHHH! CHING CHONG LING LONG TING TONG? OHHH!'" "So being the polite nice American girl that my momma raised me to be, I kind of just gave him ... 'It's the library, like we're trying to study, thanks!' And then it's the same thing five minutes later. But it's somebody else, you know? I swear they're going through their whole families, just checking on everybody from the tsunami thing. ... Like, you seriously should go outside if you're going to do that."
Wow. "Too soon" doesn't begin to cover this. (And, uh, from what we can remember of life at an Asian-heavy UC campus, the droves of Wallace clones were equally guilty of interrupting quiet time during finals week.)
When an initial barrage of negative comments apparently made Wallace realize what she had gotten herself into, the UCLA blonde quickly pulled her rant off the Web -- but not before numerous Asian advocate groups and viral video-sniffers had gotten a hold of it, re-posting and immortalizing her ditzy hate speech for the viewing pleasures of many more indignant comments to come.
By Sunday night, "Asians at the Library" had been shared by tens of thousands of Facebook users and even made its way onto Tosh.0. Then there was the obligatory stream of remixes of her racist rant, wringing the musicality of the "Ching Chong" bit for all it's worth. (Wallace appears to have removed her Model Mayhem profile amid the shitstorm.)
University spokesman Phil Hampton told the Daily Bruin last night that the video was "repugnant," and couldn't confirm if Wallace was actually enrolled at UCLA.
A similar event took place at UC San Diego last year, when one student planned a "Compton Cookout" party to "honor" Black History Month, and -- a few days later -- another made a highly offensive racial slur against black students on the student-run TV station. After similar statements from university officials, no further disciplinary actions were taken, based largely on the First Amendment and the fact that no tangible threats had been made by the students in question.
Update, 7:30 p.m.: Wallace released the following statement to the Daily Bruin today:
"Clearly the original video posted by me was inappropriate. I cannot explain what possessed me to approach the subject as I did, and if I could undo it, I would. I'd like to offer my apology to the entire UCLA campus. For those who cannot find it within them to accept my apology, I understand."
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