 The Wall Street Journal just asked the question, are there too many Asians? And guess what? Asians are offended. Oh man, this is going viral right now. Play the TikTok clip about it. Can you imagine living through the last week in America after everything that the Asian-American community has suffered through? And then seeing this article, seeing this headline, and saying, yeah, that's fine, publish it. Andrew, long story short, WSJ, slightly right-leaning, or some people would say very right-leaning publication. Andrew, they went for it. They were trying to be edgy. They were trying to be clever. They were trying to be quippy. But it looks like they bit off more than they can chew. Yeah, I think they're showing their true colors right now, man. They got a media backlash. They actually changed the title of the op-ed. And basically, it just spurred a bunch of different reactions, because a lot of people are offended. A lot of people are saying, ah, it's not that big of a deal. Yeah, but it basically begs the question, how come it seems like no one, whether it's in media, academia, journalism, they are not scared to offend Asians. And even when it's something that they know is 50-50, yeah, this is a risky title. It might offend some Asians. Let it go. And honestly, it doesn't even matter if they're left-right. Obviously, this one happened to be on the right. I just do not think that people put the handle with care sticker on any package of the word Asian, the word Chinese, the concept Asian. Just it didn't get the handle with care sticker that all the other ethnicities got. The word Asian is not taken seriously. So honestly, we're going to go through some of the main responses, OK, some of the main reactions. We'll break it down, and then we'll give you our own takeaways. Please hit that like button. Click Subscribe, turn on your notifications, because we are releasing videos every single day. Let's get into it. Point number one, Andrew, there was even arguing in the comments section of The Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal's readership, primarily white, primarily older, and primarily like pretty high income. And you know, a white woman was just like, you know what? This title is so problematic. You need to change it right now. People say, stop it. Stop it. He was referencing a book. He was trying to be clever. He's being clever. And other people said, hey, guys, I don't know if you guys understand why this is offensive. But it's offensive because my wife is Korean, and she's lumped in with Asians. And I get it. Chinese are the bad Asians, but Koreans are the good Asians. So I was kind of like, all right, this is a whole other issue here. Here's my thing. Here's my thing. I get that he was quoting the book. And then back in 1959, there was a lot of racial books back then. You could have a racial tone if you were a white guy. What I'm saying is for Wall Street Journal and journalism and academia, this is why we have a different standard than for comedy. This is not a comedy bit. Even there are still ways you're going to offend a lot of people in comedy. But I'm just saying this was not a comedic way. This is not the onion. This is not comedycentral.com. Is it possibly, and here's a picture of the writer of the Wall Street Journal article, that this guy is kind of more tapped into 1959 than he is 2023? Possibly. Anyways, David, what's the second most popular comment? The second most popular comment was, dude, you could not say this about any other group. Literally, Asians are the least protected, at least in media group in the world. Because they were like, imagine if somebody would have said too many Jews or too many blacks or too many Latinos, they would lose their career forever. Well, honestly, I don't even think of what I got through editing if that was the title. And think about it. Back in the 50s, 60s, there's so many racialized books written back then that they, but they still couldn't even quote it just like that. They, the quote would have to be like, wow, I can't believe how racial this book title was back then. You know what I mean? But to just leave it like how it was and just kind of let it sit there and have people click on it, it wasn't, it wasn't smart. A lot of people were unsurprised, point number three, Andrew, because the Wall Street Journal also completely left Asians off their hate crime survey for 2022. Yeah, dude, this is a survey that I retweeted because I was like, how are Asians not on here? You know, these are the groups that they surveyed on how much hate do you feel like you're receiving? Black people, LGBT, Latinos, Jews, Christians, white people. They did not include Asians in this survey. So we do not exist. They also had a sick man of Asia article about China during COVID that definitely raised some eyebrows. Long story short, guys, I get it. Everybody needs some leeway to say things, but it certainly seems like the Wall Street Journal essentially does not care too much about Asians. Moving on to number four, Andrew, why do you think that Asian things are not really taken serious in the US overall? Because even on the comedy side, and you know, comedy is politically, typically very liberal, there have been a ton of examples of people saying super questionable things about Asian people. For example, Andrew, Jimmy Kimmel had a whole segment where a little girl was like, why don't we just kill all the Chinese people? And they aired it like it was a joke. Steve Harvey said, huh, no women want any Asian man ever romantically. Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliffe have been saying the C-word very nonchalantly. James Corden had an entire segment mocking Boba. Oh, and all Asian food in general on that segment. It got so bad they had to delete that entire segment from the show moving forward. Jimmy Fallon even dissed Boba along with Jason Sudeikis on the Fallon show. Also, like I said, it doesn't matter, right or left. ESPN had chink in the armor when Jeremy Lin had a bad game during Lin Sanity. Basically, there are just countless examples, guys. I'm sure in the comment section below, people are gonna like leave a bunch more that we left out. But basically, why does it seem like in media, people just do not take Asian things seriously? And particularly, it looks like, I guess, white guys don't. Well, honestly, I think that we're gonna get into it deeper, but the Asian identity in America is a little bit confusing. People don't know if we're the model minority, are we the ones that have high poverty? Are they the ones doing the recent mass shootings on other Asians? Like, what type, what are we? Are we in a press group or not? And you know what I noticed about all these different stereotypes that Asians have? People will lean into different ones when it's convenient for them. I bet you if we asked all these comics, whether that's Steve Harvey or Kimmel, or whatever, and we're like, yo, why'd you make that joke? They're like, ah, come on, man. Asians ain't doing too bad. You know, they got the white income numbers. They're kind of like, we view them as white adjacent. Basically, people are selectively putting Asians in where it fits their narrative of what they wanna push in the moment. Yeah, I'll just provide a little bit of a devil's advocate here on the other side where I think, and maybe it's not all of Asia plan this, but it seems like a lot of the Asian culture that is exported from Asia to America tends to be a lot of the soft, bubbly culture. Are you talking about the fluffy piggywaffle, like Doraemon type thing? Yeah, the Doraemon, Gudetama, Hello Kitty, K-pop, K-drama, Boba, Fluffy, Souffle, Pancake, Culture. Which, that's the stuff that gets popular in America that we can sell to America, and that's what people wanna see Asian culture as. So when people view Asian culture, at least pop culture, as that thing, as this cute thing, they think that they can treat us like infants. What's the word infantilization? I feel like on a personal level, they almost treat Asians like cute dweebie weenies, but then on a larger level, when it's like talking about China, it's like an evil dragon breathing dragon as a nation, but each individual is this little Boba keychain. Like everybody's getting treated like Han on Two Broke Girls, okay? Like this little harmless, small, nerdy guy, geeky guy that gets no love from women, but is doing fine financially. Right, he still owns stuff legally right now. Yeah, well he's their boss. He still has assets, right? Yeah, he's their boss technically, but he's like the boss that's not taken seriously. And I think that's why a lot of guys, maybe particularly the Asian guys, but a lot of people are leaning more into like martial arts, these badass aspects of Asian culture that like everybody also like, so it is weird. It is weird. Get a tiger tattoo. Everybody likes martial arts, right? And Samurai's, right? Everybody thinks that's cool and Bruce Lee, but then also everybody likes the fluffy Asian culture, but then also everybody kind of disrespects Asian culture. And I will say that particularly why I think that in media, it's this way, media is still very, very, very, very white. And I noticed that a lot of the Asians that thrive in media, they're not necessarily gonna be your badass like tattoo dragon Asians. You know what I mean? It's gonna be like a different type. Moving on to number five, Andrew. Different types of Asians care about different types of racism. One thing I noticed is there was a lot of blue check marks, a lot of people who were really accomplished and a lot of people went to Ivy League colleges coming out against Wall Street Journal. Like on Twitter, it was all Asians that had achieved like quite high in their professional system. Yeah, I mean a lot of CEOs, founders, people that are heavy on Twitter, they're gonna be the ones to speak up about this. Cause they were probably like, dude, this is so representative of my classmates at like Harvard Business School or like Stern or whatever. Exactly, I mean, there's different groups of Asians, right? And we're talking about the ones who are generally college educated. They might lean and care more about this particular incident rather than maybe the other side of Asians. Right, you're saying for example, another side of Asians, I see more of the focus being on, oh, can Asian shop owners defend themselves if they're being attacked? You know, where is the line of like self-defense and where is it across the line? And for example, like the Vegas vape shop owner that was Viet. Right, right, right. And those are more like, you know, to categorize them like the more street focused Asians and then these are the more like journalism. Wall Street focused Asians. Wall Street focused Asians, right? You have the streets and then Wall Street. Yeah, there are different types of Asians. Yes, there are, but. I guess overall man to me, my major takeaway on this and I didn't wanna take it too overly serious but it is serious, right? Because this is an indicative of a mindset that emanates from that world. I'm not gonna lie, a lot of people who read Wall Street Journal, they have a lot of pull in society. Like whether or not you follow Wall Street and all these like high level, you know, people, these are like the puppet masters of the economy, especially if you consider America a corporatocracy. Yeah, and I think that we always generally believe that educated people, people who have traveled a lot should know better because we always give an excuse to the ignorant person. Oh, Bill, you know, I never left my hometown. You're saying his top row of teeth has like four teeth so we're gonna like. Yeah, we just look at him and be like, oh, well, you just haven't seen anything. So yeah, I guess your opinion doesn't matter anyways. Right, but you're saying people, oh, by the way, the CEOs of both News Corp, which owns Wall Street Journal and Rupert Mardak who ultimately owns News Corp, Andrew, both were or are married to Chinese women. Yeah, I think that's a whole nother layer to it. We're not gonna get into it, whatever. It may, it doesn't matter. But basically long story short, man, people, like what is it gonna take for Asians to have the handle with care sticker put on their box too? I don't know, cause, cause listen, you thought going through Asian hate was gonna give us kind of that card or that title or that label, but it's not. Or maybe unfortunately all the recent shootings, that doesn't, no, it doesn't matter. You know what I mean? So I don't know. And I don't know, it's just so weird because we're in this transition stage as this immigrant community where we constantly have new immigrants coming over but we're also like have heavily been in America since the 60s. Of course there was Asians before that, but heavily our identity is formed after 1965. And so I guess we're just in this stage of being learned about and how to handle us. I guess that's how I'd put it. How do you handle Asians? We're in this generation of people figuring it out. Right, and I get it. People don't know if we get picked on enough. People don't think we are, we model minority too much or not model minority enough. And then you're gonna parse it out and like. Who is an Asian? We don't even, we're not, we're still debating on is this person Asian? Does this count as Asian, Asians are not a monolith? Why is Asian such a big umbrella? So I think these conversations are being had right now and through social media. So that's why it seems like there's always gonna be a lot of like jumbling and fumbling of things. So I guess don't forgive these people, speak out when it happens and call them out just like we are right now. But I'm also not gonna pretend like this isn't a symptom of kind of this growing stage that we're in. For sure, let us know what you think in the comment section below guys. Obviously nobody likes an article like this to come out but how big of a deal is it? Little, medium or a big deal? Until next time we're the hot pop boys, we out. Peace.