 UFC fighter Sean Strickland cannot stop talking about China, but Chinese UFC fighter Song Yadong just responded. China's biggest exports, plastic and COVID. Hey champ, I respect your skills as a fighter, but we should be talking facts, not baseless stereotypes. As athletes, we ought to focus on what we know best and avoid making unfounded comments. Let's set a good example, alright? Alright guys, this tweet, whole Twitter spat or back and forth kind of went viral, so we want to talk about... Are Sean Strickland's comments about China, are they really offensive or is he just a blue-collar fighter so we should just not take anything that he says seriously? Anyway guys, we are gonna get into our quick takes on it, of course the comments section, the ever-present comments section, so make sure you like, subscribe and turn on your notifications, but you know what's something that is going viral right now? Small loss sauce guys, made in America, but with Chinese flavoring, it's very delicious, check it out, foodie and chef approved. I feel like nowadays, Andrew, nobody knows whether to take pure fighters whose job it is to beat people's heads in and also get their heads beat in, you know, bare fist to skull, Andrew, but it agitated the world, right? Yeah, I think that we're at this point where fighters are so famous and we give them so much attention because at the end of the day, we want these people to be stars because it's more entertaining to watch them fight. Like it's more entertaining to watch two famous people fight rather than two no-names fight, period. Right, it almost adds some like WWE elements but instead of it being choreographed, they're actually beating each other up, right? But again, I put fighters even in a different category but close to comedians where maybe the things they say should not be fully taken seriously, but I don't know because it depends on how you take it. You're like, oh, I'm offended by Sean Strickland, he keeps making Chinese jokes or you're just like, dude, he literally takes punches to the face for a living, so who cares? Those are the two main outlooks but let's talk about it because I think there is a debate. Also, some people are saying that Song Yatong was making a PR statement that may have been sent to him by, you know, handlers. You mean maybe he didn't type that? Yeah, I don't think that he did. No, but he could have translated it. It could be an official PRC response to it that is channeled through. I mean, it could be anything, right? But it seemed like a good response regardless who wrote it or if he wrote it or if it was translated. It was an educated response. Right, I think it speaks on a couple of things. I think it speaks on how people feel about China right now, how you can twist semi-true things. There's not no truth to what he said in terms of China doesn't import so many goods into America that aren't like plastic based, right? But also a lot of heavy machinery so I don't know why he didn't say metal as well. And then obviously COVID came from China but so do a trillion other things. Why do you focus on those two things, right? So many good and bad things come out of China. It's like a gigantic place. Nobody understands anything about it. It's so, you know, what's so weird and it's just going to be true for the next like 50 years Andrew, is that China is going to be America's biggest trading partner. It's going to be one of the biggest countries where people immigrate from into America and nobody will know anything about it. And people will continuously make fun of it too. Yeah and they will continuously like be like oh I love these cheap Chinese products from Amazon but I'll basically diss Chinese things whenever I get a chance. And the tough thing is I know that there is a separation between the people who come from China and China. I understand that. We all know conceptually if you make people take a test they know that there's a difference but you can't help that when somebody is making fun of your country or talking down on it or your motherland that it kind of feels like it's a proxy to talk down on you. Whether or not they mean it that way, that's how it feels. It easily could dominate an effect into demeaning your humanity which can lead you to getting treated worse in the workplace, worse on the sidewalk, public spheres, blah, blah, blah, blah. Can I go out on a limb and say that first of all we're going to play some other clips of Sean Strickland being interviewed by a Chinese American girl. But he's like making a lot of Chinese jokes. He's just having fun. He really is not caring what he's saying. I mean they're very baseline stereotypes. Yeah, yeah but she's kind of inviting it too. But I guess like even with that said I don't know if Sean Strickland hates Chinese people. I don't think there's any evidence of that. But he sure does not give an F about what he's saying. And with this amount of fame and this platform he's still never going to give an F. You know what I mean? Like we said man, there's a lot of material to twist as much as we say this. You know like there's a saying in China it takes two hands to clap. And obviously with all the negative press that China is getting right now some of those are stories rooted in truth. But of course everybody's going to just look at the aspects that they want to look at. But we all know Sean Strickland he's going to get even in hotter water if he said those same things about Africa or an African country. But even Russia a country that like probably arguably does way worse. I would just like to see someone like Sean Strickland if he's going to make fun of China which okay a joke is a joke. Sure you got a joke on everybody. Joke on every other country or every other continent do it. Or is it also Chinese people's responsibility to not just lay down and take it. Anyway guys listen I think there's valid arguments on all sides and there's going to be some good perspectives that even conflict with each other. Let's run the clips from a seemingly endless amount of Chinese jokes that he made with reporter Helen Yee. I'm trying to get this Chinese money so you know if there's any big Chinese sponsors what's it called the phone company Helen you hook me up. What am I saying. Hello. Me how. I feel like I should already start how do I say work harder child. You and smell is scrapping. What's going on with you. I'm just swimming you know a little bit. Trying to qualify for Olympic trials for the Olympics. You're going to make China proud super proud. Okay well fucking I miss happy night in dogs. My dad did but for true story when you're in China you got no food man you know meat is meat all right. Always great to see you Helen. I thought since you got married you start wearing more clothes to the gym. It's not. I thought we had to talk about this. You got discipline bro. My god you're probably an Izzy fan aren't you. Hey he told the seafood. Okay he told seafood he's going to knock you out for China. Who the fuck is seafood. It means master. Fuck I have no master fucking Izzy. I mean of course Izzy has a master he's fucking China's little slut. The little Cantonese. Oh shit. Let's do it. Lay ho. I do like the lay hoes. We're going away from the Cantonese guys. My name is not fucking Izzy okay. The fucking Chinese you guys I keep telling you can never trust the Chinese. In the middle of the night cleaning my fucking guns. Thinking about overthrowing the government. Thinking about all the ones who wronged me. I'll now troll here. I mean you know you are what Chinese. Yeah. We all know about Chinese in the steroids so I mean come on now. You got bigger fucking arms than me Helen come on. Oh my god. You know I would like to say this is the most Chinese thing I've ever eaten but that would be a lie. Oh I can't do it. I can't do it. I've ate a lot of gross things. A lot of gross things and this is going on top. Oh I'm done. I'm done you win hell. Is that something you like to eat? Oh yeah it's really good. It's good for you too. I understand in China sometimes it's hard to get foods but this is America you guys. This is a topic thrust this way. This is the land of the free. I eat McDonald's and fucking cheeseburgers. This is this is what poor people eat. All right. I am past that now knocked out. You love me when I win. You love me when I offend Helen. You love me when I insult small and I love you for that you fucking deranged bastards. Oh my goodness. Andrew let's get into the comment section. Somebody said classless but then again I expect nothing less. He was a legit white supremacist. He's admitted it himself on various podcasts. Oh yeah no from back in the day. Oh okay I didn't know this. He's like you know I'm grown out of that and you know my girls helped me a lot but I was raised in you know Inland Empire and that that was my background. Raised in Corona man. There's a lot of diversity in LA so. A lot of MMA fighters come from. Inland Empire. Yeah but you know it could be for the family so I didn't know that. I am going to count that against him. Somebody said man it's just okay now because China's or Asian countries in general are getting stronger so that gives more of a people a license to go at it. There is some truth to that. Yeah it is true because China is supposed to take over or dominate. That's why it feels more okay. It almost feels like to some people that they're punching up for the joke. They do feel that some people can rationalize especially blue collar people in America can rationalize that making fun of China is actually punching up at this point. Cause they're like my manufacturing jobs are the ones that got shipped over to China so if they took my job I'm punching up at least on the trend at least in my micro fishbowl and maybe. Why's it got to be so complicated. Somebody said right after this he went on a podcast with Theo Vaughn and cried about his childhood. He also said that if he was in prison doing a life sentence he possibly would take advantage of Asian men because they are more delicate soft and make better lady boys. That is a crazy thing. I saw that clip. He did say that on his podcast. Yeah you know what? You know what song? Song ya don't. You just got to fight them man. You got to fight them. You got to fight them over this. Somebody said people mad that Sean said the truth and the evidence is there and obvious. People react with motions instead of thinking critically. Of course some people said the bit about plastic is true though. So actually China is the world's largest exporter of plastics but that is also because they buy far more than any other country in the world make everything. Heavy metal machinery, light plastic, consumer goods, industrial fabrics and fabrication. Everything. But since when was Sean Strickland mister environmental? You know what I mean? Since when did he care about who's making all the plastics? Everybody needs stuff. I don't love that there's so much plastic in the world that there's microplastics in your water and stuff like that. I don't love that idea but also I'm like people keep buying stuff. Somebody said let's get on as Sean Strickland and his fan base probably complain about recycling solar and EVs and then want to blame plastic on China. Exactly. Well they also probably don't believe in COVID but then would blame COVID on China to be honest too. I mean that's just like the human desire to just get all your points and not do any nuance to anything. I don't think Sean Strickland is a statesman. I don't think he's a philosopher. I don't think he's a scholar or even a politician. He's a fighter. But we give fighters a platform. Somebody said I'm sure his phone most of the stuff he owns and uses are made in China. This reminds me of when Kenyan Martin tried to go after Jeremy Lin. Obviously he was saying Jeremy Lin shouldn't have braids. Jeremy Lin pointed out that Kenyan Martin had Chinese tattoos. Yeah. Yeah. I just think that. It's just like even just like Chinese tattoos and just like Chinese jokes. It's almost like these Chinese things got so disconnected from the culture. It's almost like somebody will be sitting there eating orange chicken and go yeah all the Chinese eat dog over there. This love this American food though but it's just like orange chicken and lo mein but it's almost like been so disconnected over the years. You know it's like it's like really really hard to describe. I guess the westerns society's ability to like be sensitive around Chinese things would you say. Yeah it just kind of sucks that it feels like as an Asian in America and you like these American things you like American comedians and American fighters and American athletes but when they say something about being Asian that you find even kind of offensive then you feel bad if you boycott them for it because they're like everybody's going to look at you and be like oh stop being so sensitive. They're just an athlete. They're just this and then as an Asian you just take all these little jabs at you and you're just like you're expected to take it. And it's almost like that your whole life to me. Yeah it is. It's literally like that like every idol that you have there's like a 40% chance they're going to say something off you know. Yeah and it's like I feel conflicted the same way. It's not a much I'm not a Sean Strickland fan so for this one I don't really care. I'm not paying attention to him. I don't follow him and I don't ever need to see him fight and I don't need to ever support him. I also don't think he's like an evil man but I'm like no I just don't eff with this guy. But there's been a lot of comedians who have made Asian jokes where I was like dang man I still think you're funny. You know but. I'm not going to lie. What's his name? Who's the fat guy that said the. Shane Gillis. Shane Gillis on a pure humor level is a killer. Like he's doesn't respect Asians that much truly in his heart. I believe that but in terms of his humor muscles they're very strong. I did watch his comedy special his latest one. So aside from what he did in the beginning. He's funny. So everybody's so conflicted. And especially as an Asian guy it's like a whole another thing I would say this and I'm going to keep it so real right now. I feel like pretty Asian women are pretty Chinese women. They almost get viewed as like a product of China that's owned by an American company. You know how like people are cool that the iPhones are assembled over there right. That's how people view it. But Chinese guys we get treated like we're actually a Chinese brand. Yeah. Like we're not an iPhone that's assembled over by a Foxconn factory in China. We're Huawei ourselves. Yeah. Yeah. Also. Yeah man. I mean. Hey listen guys whether you like it to hear it or not like that's a. That's how it's spot on. That is definitely how it's perceived how it plays out. I'm not saying it's right or wrong. And so it's kind of wack. So I think the people who are the most you know ambivalent about this feeling the most mixed feelings are Asian guys. Yeah. I like Sean Strickland's interviews. Like I don't like what he says. But the fact that he has zero filter from his like a mind to like vocal chords is pretty interesting. It's very American. I guess instead of trying to police essentially a just a guy who a brawler a fighter a professional. He said he was on his path to becoming a domestic terrorist before he focused on fighting. He literally said that that was his life. Yeah. And this is the thing. So we give these people platforms. So we either we either do not care what they say whether he says he was about to be a domestic terrorist whether he says he used to be a white supremacist whether he says stuff about Asians whether he says stuff about black people if he ever does we either have to say I don't care what Sean Strickland says he is this guy. He is he is not a role model or you have to do the things to try to police it. You know what I mean. You got to shout out to Sonya Don because he was the one who came out and said it. Yeah. And obviously he can he can match up because he's also a fighter. You know what I mean. Like if I tweet that to Sean Strickland it doesn't matter. Right. It's another UFC fighter who has a I'll get made fun of for tweeting it. Somebody just said America's greatest export racism and somebody said and some folk wonder why white people get labeled as racist as their stereotype. That's a good point. Hey white people. Hey just like stereotypes come from somewhere this stereotype sticking around for a while. Yeah. Somebody said America's biggest fast exports are fast food and weapons. Somebody said racist terrorist school shooters lowest IQ of course a lot of comments about school shootings. It is all almost impossible to find class in the modern UFC. Somebody said it's not just UFC it's everything but the truth is in one championship which is based in Singapore you are not allowed to say anything like this. Yeah well it's not all about the theatrics and saying controversial stuff just to drum up tickets and viewerships for a fight you know it's more about just striking in that league. Yeah I remember when Khabib beat Connor McGregor he was like oh man he's allowed to say everything about me. I disagree with it because obviously there was some religious beef when he was talking about me. I mean I think it depends on how big of a fan you were with Sean Strickland beforehand if you were a big fan you're going to cut him a little bit of slack because you're going to be like oh well you know he's kind of a dumb dude anyways or if you're not a fan already and you're only hearing about Sean Strickland because of this then of course you're going to be like yo F this guy. Somebody said Sean Strickland just gained every conservative as a fan and they said it's funny because when LeBron because a lot of NBA players Andrew James Harden as well they said things in support of China because the NBA and China have a very close relationship or they told them to shut up in Dribble but then they're like oh how come everybody's like cheering Sean Strickland's like complete lack of support. Yeah yeah how come we don't say Sean shut up and fight. Shut up and punch. Shut up and kick. Well I wouldn't say that because in a way I can't control what people do with free speech but I do believe that that is one of the things that makes America very unique but it seems like people are using it for like to be inflammatory at least in 2024 a lot more. Ultimately Andrew what do you think I think this I think Sean Strickland he represents almost like a hyper bold 10x version of just like an uneducated blue color person because if you think about all the stereotypes that he said everything from Asian or Chinese guys being like soft and delicate to like all the jokes that he made with Helena Yi those are all like baseline stereotypes to be honest if you guys grew up in a blue color area like me you heard that stuff since you were like maybe like nine years old. Yeah I'll tell you this man I overall just to wrap it up whether you care about Sean Strickland or not I just think like in this day and age and for the next decade or so you're better thinking your skin I'm not saying don't speak up about it but I'm just saying regardless whether you speak up about this or not which this is kind of my our way of speaking up about it I'm still going to acknowledge like we got to have thick skin because people are going to keep saying stuff whether it's in a joking manner whether it comes from an uneducated place an educated place a comedic place or a non comedic or educated but like non holistic view that's what that's one of the things really educated but purposely blanking out these other counter facts on purpose yeah I mean there's a lot of comedians that make jokes about China that I want to respond to but that I don't know man I can't like even somebody like Andrew Schultz like or like Patrick but David well we did respond to it though we did make videos and that's why we have this platform because we'll at least speak up about it I'm not necessarily saying we're going to protest Sean Strickland I don't care that much but I'm just like yeah I'm not a like tough in your shell as a turtle but you also got a tough in your forward engine yeah to go forward too because I'm telling you guys especially if you are Chinese passing of course actually Chinese you actually like have family in mainland China like us it's like it's just going to be more and more to be honest so it's like it is what it is alright guys well let us know your response down below I plan on making some more jokes about America then we'll make some jokes about America Sean I mean you know listen guys it's such an interesting situation like we said even Asians themselves were split it depends on like I guess the geopolitical relationship of their motherland origin mainland China maybe your diaspora Chinese or you live there there anyway we can make like a hundred videos about the twists and turns that the relations of like each response is going to go into let us know what you think in the comment section below until next time we will see you guys in the next video peace