Embarrassed 2 B Azn
There are times, yes, times when I’m embarrassed to be Asian.
Like, for example, whenever I see an AsianWeek distribution stand. This weekly tabloid—long brought to us by the same Fang family (even Asians pronounce “Fang” like tooth) that embarrassed the entire Bay Area with their transparently whorish version of the Examiner—is the adult equivalent of a midwestern suburban teenager’s identity-angst zine, only without the freshness and honesty.
The writing is horrifyingly bad, their stories are six months behind the times—Hyphen, a tri-annual magazine, consistently scoops them—and their occasional shameful shows of community support—fobbed off on 18-year-old interns, or at least reading as if they were—do nothing to counteract their constant flow of vitriol toward Asian American writers, journalists, and cultural workers more savvy and successful than they.
When we started the self-same Hyphen magazine that kicks their ass every morning for breakfast (and twice on Sunday, for brunch) before it even prints a word, AsianWeek’s first, and pretty much only, response was to sic on us Emil Guillermo (the only nominally competent staff writer, and that I say only because he manages to stick to the rules of grammar). In his column “Emil Amok”, Guillermo, after admitting that he hadn’t yet seen the magazine, proceeded to attempt to tear us a new asshole because our editor in chief, Melissa Hung, had said in an interview that Hyphen wasn’t going to do Asian American Studies 101. Guillermo, naturally, didn’t bother to call Hung and clarify, ’cause he’s not really a journalist, and Hyphen remains of the single-asshole persuasion.
The middle-aged Guillermo took exception to that statement, presumably, because he works for a publication that phones it in, week after week, on that very syllabus. He hadn’t moved past it, so why should we? That’s when I stopped even attempting to read AsianWeek. Because either Guillermo’s editors had read his column and supported his low journalistic standards and ignorant opinion, or because they didn’t support it but were too lazy or chickenshit to say so, or because they hadn’t bothered to read it in the first place. Whatever. None of those are publications I actually want to read.
So I guess it shouldn’t surprise me that AsianWeek is now publishing some of the most blatantly racist, not to mention poorly executed, dingleberries passing for writing on the internet today. And that’s saying a lot.
As Hyphen’s staff blog reports today, they’ve acquired a new columnist recently named Kenneth Eng. He’s been producing extremely short columns with titles such as “Why I Hate Asians,” “Proof that Whites Inherently Hate Us,” and, most recently, a savvy piece of marketing entitled “Why I Hate Blacks.” Being an irony-steeped Gen-Xer, I hear titles like this and think, “What a great opportunity for Swiftian satire!” But alas, we’re talking about AsianWeek, and if these buttcrusts were intended as satire, Eng is too shitty a writer to get that across.
I’d link to some examples of his excrescences, but I’m too damn lazy or something. Follow the links in the Hyphen article if you want it. There’s also a petition, which is only a good idea because somebody needs to let teh blacks and teh whites know that most Asian Americans have never even heard of AsianWeek, much less agree with its “editorial” “decisionmaking”. As for me, I can’t even be bothered to sign it. Let AsianWeek sink into its own mire. It has proven again and again unworthy of Asian American support. Let it die. I’d rather have no As Am newspaper at all than this piece of shit.
OMG this guy is such an insane psycho. Check out his blog at Amazon.com of all places:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/ATCXMPPVKTNTU
OK I am now obsessively googling Kenneth Eng. Here’s a review of his book:
http://blogs.ign.com/Hil-IGN/2006/09/01/29782/
And here’s an interview with him where he explains his 0th dimensional genius:
http://www.forewordmagazine.com/ftw/ftwarchives.aspx?id=20050601.htm
I’m amazed that he got a column in any newspaper!
He’s insane and really dumb.
I’m amazed anyone published his writing, ever. The people who did belong in their own special Hall of Shame. Were they asleep?
“Even if there were intelligent extraterrestrials in the universe, they too must be in some way “human” in that they must also be able to experience to a certain degree the same emotions and to use the same logic we do. Can you imagine a taste sweeter than honey? Can you fancy a smell worse than that of excrement?”
Then he asks what the purpose of life is, and the answer is: eugenics!
Him and the Time Cube guy, together forever in love…
Here’s a start for the Hall of Shame:
Asian Week
“Down in the Dirt: The Internet Literary Magazine” (http://scars.tv/dirt/dirt009.htm)
DNA Press (http://www.dnapress.com/index/synstore-manufacturer-view-action/manufacturer.23)
A vanity press? Or what? They publish “Science in every word.” Hmmm.
No, wait, I just hit the motherlode. Someone did a whole site of songs about how horrible he is. I think some people at NYU might have been annoyed at him. The songs make me feel so much better….
http://kenneth-che-tew-eng.tripod.com/
SHUT THE F**K UP YOU KENNETH C. ENG
Sung to the tune of Village People’s “YMCA”
Kenneth!
No one makes love to dragons like
Kenneth!
Was there a sex Nobel Prize, he would
get it!
Only he can imagine, that a-ny crea-ture would touch
Kenneth!
Says “Hitler was no coward”, so
Kenneth!
Why don’t you get a clue, you won’t
Get it!
We won’t listen to you
when you open your big mouth, so…
i know it’s more fun to flail away on kenneth eng’s hide, but this whole thing is really asianweek’s fault. there are crazies everywhere, just turn over a rock. you can’t stop them, they’re a force of nature.
but when you legitimize their craziness by publishing them, just as if they were real writers, then YOU’RE the problem.
God, thank you. I fucking hate AsianWeek–more than Newsweek, more than Wired, though Asianweek does less damage than either of those worthies. I put AsianWeek in the same category as Fox News, but at least Fox can be entertaining at times. AsianWeek is where you go when you want to read turgid, humorless, divisive hack writing. Which is pretty much true of most of the Fang papers. Somebody should write, “Why I Hate AsianWeek.” I’d do it, but that would require reading AsianWeek to find examples of why I hate it. I’ll leave that task to somebody else.
Whew. Glad I got that off my chest.
Think I’ll go get another cup of coffee…
The Kenneth Eng column is phony!
He should have been stopped long before this. I find it interesting that he did an earlier article “Proof that Whites Inherently Hate Us,”….yet not a word was said.
DAWG, U KNO BRUTHAS KEEPIN IT REAL N ALLDA.
Y U GOTS 2 B LIKE THAT YO?
WORD UP
[...] Update: Be sure to check out the excellent analyses by Claire Light and Philip Arthur Moore. Blacks hate us. Every Asian who has ever come across them knows that they take almost every opportunity to hurl racist remarks at us… [...]
This guy is colossally moronic. And now, he has had is exposure and 15 minutes of fame because of his racist rants. Best thing we can all do is ignore him and boycott Asian weekly.
Here’s the list:
ere go that bullshit. Hope you got on your boots, cause it’s deep off in Kenneth Eng’s world:
Why I Hate Blacks
Kenneth Eng, Feb 23, 2007
Here is a list of reasons why we should discriminate against blacks, starting from the most obvious down to the least obvious:
• Blacks hate us. Every Asian who has ever come across them knows that they take almost every opportunity to hurl racist remarks at us.
In my experience, I would say about 90 percent of blacks I have met, regardless of age or environment, poke fun at the very sight of an Asian. Furthermore, their activity in the media proves their hatred: Rush Hour, Exit Wounds, Hot 97, etc.
• Contrary to media depictions, I would argue that blacks are weak-willed. They are the only race that has been enslaved for 300 years. It’s unbelievable that it took them that long to fight back.
On the other hand, we slaughtered the Russians in the Japanese-Russo War.
• Blacks are easy to coerce. This is proven by the fact that so many of them, including Reverend Al Sharpton, tend to be Christians.
Yet, at the same time, they spend much of their time whining about how much they hate “the whites that oppressed them.”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Christianity the religion that the whites forced upon them?
• Blacks don’t get it. I know it’s a blunt and crass comment, but it’s true. When I was in high school, I recall a class debate in which one half of the class was chosen to defend black slavery and the other half was chosen to defend liberation.
Disturbingly, blacks on the prior side viciously defended slavery as well as Christianity. They say if you don’t study history, you’re condemned to repeat it.
In high school, I only remember one black student ever attending any of my honors and AP courses. And that student was caught cheating.
It is rather troubling that they are treated as heroes, but then again, whites will do anything to defend them.
“Embarrassed 2 B Azn”…
Yep, that pretty much sums up my response after reading his column.
I think Eng is afraid that Obama will become president.
Wow, if Christianity makes blacks and hispanics stupid what does that say about the Koreans?
–also embarrassed 2bazn
i take that back, i’m not embarrassed to be asian. i had nothing to do with that moron.
I wish it were a hoax, but after my own googling I’ve come to the conclusion that he really believes this crap. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a more overblown ego. Abnormal psychology is fascinating, really. He’s even tried to start a violent rebellion!
http://asiansinc.com/forums/showthread.php?p=479361#post479361
Here’s his Fox interview…I can’t believed they indulged this maniac.
He’s basically whining “Ohhh, people were mean to me after I told them I was a racist, Hitler was courageous and religion is stupid…whaaaaa”
Why I Hate Blacks’ Author Defends Column
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
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This is a partial transcript of “The Big Story With John Gibson,” March 5, 2007, that has been edited for clarity.
JOHN GIBSON, HOST: Now for a “Big Story” exclusive: the author of the column “Why I Hate Blacks.”
Last week we told you about the overtly racist column which was published in San Francisco’s AsianWeek. At that point the editor of the paper had apologized for publishing the column and since then he has also fired the writer, Kenneth Eng.
What made Eng write that column in the first place? Why does he say that he hates blacks and whites and even his fellow Asians? With me now is self-proclaimed Asian supremacist Kenneth Eng.
So, Mr. Eng, have you changed your mind?
KENNETH ENG, AUTHOR OF “WHY I HATE BLACKS”: Well no, and personally if I’m racist then so is Sofia Coppola. And more importantly I’d like to talk about the philosophy of ” Dragons: Lexicon Triumvirate,” which tells a story about cyborg dragons fighting in the Middle Ages. And in this realm, evolution has worked in a more logical way, even though it’s in a fantasy setting which makes it logical that dragons are more superior than humans, in that they have intelligence and are larger and they can…
GIBSON: You’re talking about some of your science fiction writing. You’re a science fiction writer, correct?
ENG: Yes, but it relates to this as well.
GIBSON: But in your column you say, “I hate black people.” In an earlier column you said you hate white people. You also said in an earlier column, evidently, I hate Asians. Now why is it you have, I mean, do you really believe that? You hate all those different people?
ENG: Well, I generally hate black and white people, but the Asian article was sarcastic. It’s kind of like the sarcasm I had in my novel, in which dragons slay tons and tons of humans. But this relates to — in the sense that dragons logically follow evolution so they would be able to wield metal.
GIBSON: Right, but you don’t have any regrets about saying something as overtly racist as you hate somebody because they’re black or because they’re white?
ENG: Evidently Sofia Coppola and Quentin Tarantino have nothing against that and neither does Shaquille O’Neal and Chris Tucker. So I have no regrets at all.
GIBSON: Why do you hate blacks?
ENG: Well, you know, just to be blunt, 90 percent of them usually walk up to me and call me, you know, like for instance, ching-chong and stuff like that. I mean, I don’t really give a damn, but you know, I mean, after a while it gets pretty damn annoying. And not to mention they get so much media attention. But you know, I mean aside from that, you probably want to know why I call myself the god of the universe as well.
GIBSON: No, I wasn’t going to ask you about that. Why do you hate white people?
ENG: Well, you know, I mean, part of that is the fact that so many of them are Christians and religion is obviously [no audio] like a pathetic religion, just like any other religion. And the reason why I call myself god of the universe is because it’s a play on religion. It’s a parody.
(CROSSTALK)
GIBSON: You seem very angry. What are you angry about? Why are you angry at so many different kinds of people?
ENG: First of all, I would just like to say that solipsism proves that my philosophy is that since I am the only consciousness I’m aware of, any solipsism must be real. Therefore, since perception creates reality, in both the quantum and relativistic realms, I must be god. So the only reason why — so if there is such a thing as god, then he’s me. Either worship me or, you know, forsake religion.
GIBSON: Why are you so angry?
ENG: What’s that?
GIBSON: Why are you so angry?
ENG: Me, well I mean after living an entire life of being discriminated against and just seeing, you know, just seeing white and black people get away with it so overtly, especially if you read my articles about my experiences at NYU. I mean, you know, it’s kind of hard not to get angry.
GIBSON: Kenneth Eng, the fired columnist from AsianWeek. Kenneth, thank you.
I read the article and thought it might be an opportunity for the two communities to talk to each other. I filmed a segment with Mr Floyd Mori of the Japanese American Citizens League. We posted 2 segments on YouTube and here are the links. Please view them and express you comments.
Maurice Carver Executive Producer/Host – Black Men Screaming
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYckgdoR8NI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqShFjk6BoE