Racist joke article in Daily Princetonian

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<p>coureur, with regard to your post 104, Harvard, Yale, & all the other U's & colleges have their share of "judgment-impaired clowns" as well. Same for some of the top publics, such as UVA, Berkeley, UCSD. As with Princeton admissions, these other institutions cannot predict behavior necessarily, beyond the matriculation date -- although injudicious seniors have been known to receive recissions of admission between April and September.</p>

<p>This article does not provide evidence that Princeton has more than its share of judgment-impaired clowns. Rather, it provides evidence, i.m.o., that more University oversight is warranted over independent, student-run newspapers in general, so that these kinds of minor & major PR catastrophes & public controversy do not ensue.</p>

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<p>After taking a look at the old "Asian Parent Quotes" thread, I see two fundamental differences between it and the article - the use of correct English by at least one party and the choice of joke material.</p>

<p>In the old thread, broken English is only used by parents. The students speak perfect (or at the very least fluent) English.</p>

<p>I agree with several users that one of the biggest flaws in the "joke" is the use of broken English by a student who earned a 2400 on the SAT, **including* both English sections*. It just made the outdated stereotypes <em>that</em> much worse.</p>

<p>Speaking of the stereotypes, the authors of that article used unbelievably old ones. I didn't find any mention of laundry, dogs, or railroads in the Asian Parent Quotes thread. Those aren't funny. Stuff like "104 out of 105? What happened to that last point?" is.</p>

<p>And the authors just didn't realize that.</p>

<p>This is why ethnic humor should only be done by people of that group.</p>

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<p>I agree with your post 202, fabrizio, and those are similarly my sentiments.</p>

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People, people, people... I think we should close this thread it is getting us nowhere...

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<p>haha agree to this thread's not getting anywhere. damn, online postings only let u know how people see things, it doesn't change anything. I missed one day of online discussion and there are like 3,4 pages over my posts ... :D</p>

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<p>"This is why ethnic humor should only be done by people of that group."</p>

<p>The writers were asians, for the 1000th time.</p>

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<p>"The writers were asians, for the 1000th time."</p>

<p>No.</p>

<p>Some of the writers were Asians.</p>

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Chanakya Sethi '07, editor-in-chief</p>

<p>Christian Burset '07, Neir Eshel '07, Anna Huang '07, Nancy Khov '07, Alex Maugeri '07, Tom Senn '07 and Ellen Young '07, Editors, 130th Managing Board

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<p>Under my system of racial profiling (where I judge by last names), I count two Asians (Sethi and Huang) and possibly a third (Khov). The rest are either all White or at least non-Asian.</p>

<p>We're talking about 6:2 or 5:3 non-Asian:Asian ratio. No matter how you spin it, the Asian influence on the article was a minority influence.</p>

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<p>Fine, but it was still at least partially written by Asians. That counts too.
By the way, how do you quote from another person's reply?</p>

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<p>It's very easy. </p>

<p>{quote}insert text here{/quote} or {quote=username}insert text here{/quote}</p>

<p>Replace the {} with []</p>

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<p>I agree with Fabrizio with the fact that people making fun of their own ethnicity is pretty funny. Listening to my Mexican family make fun of their own Mexican-ness is rather hilarious, but if other people did it I would admit that I would be offended.</p>

<p>The comment about the garbled English being one distinguishing factor in the Asian parents thread versus this article is true. Most Asian students I know speak perfect English, and they didn't happen upon that by accident. It's rather insulting to mock the way that English is spoken by current teenagers who have no problem speaking it...does that make sense?</p>

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It's rather insulting to mock the way that English is spoken by current teenagers who have no problem speaking it...does that make sense?

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Yes, it makes sense. Southerners constantly run into a similar stereotype- apparently we all talk like uneducated hicks. Then again, I kind of wish I did have a Southern accent. :p</p>

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<p>Haha, I do have a Southern accent. I say ya'll in like, every sentence. I went to Colorado for spring break and the first words out of my mouth were interrupted by, "Are you from Texas?" </p>

<p>But yeah, we get mocked for the hick-thing. Just like "everyone" in the North speaks like the Nanny.</p>

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<p>I love a mild southern accent!</p>

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<p>Haha oh really Ernie? Supposedly girls with Southern accents sound cute. I try to make myself not have one when I'm at debate tournaments but I really just can't help it. </p>

<p>sidenote: I'm really glad the rascist joke article has disgressed in the Princeton-forum way. Hooray for getting off-topic.</p>

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<p>Lol yeah girls with southern accents sound, well, cute... Like something out of gone with the wind or something...</p>

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<p>The 130th Managing Board did not write the article.</p>

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Supposedly girls with Southern accents sound cute.

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Yeah, they do. </p>

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I'm really glad the rascist joke article has disgressed in the Princeton-forum way. Hooray for getting off-topic.

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I'm not Celebrian, but I try my best. :D</p>

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<p>j07 what type of debate do you do??</p>

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<p>In the south, there's these casinos where asian girls serve you with southern accents. Pretty cool.</p>

<p>They also have straight up Europeans etc with southern accents too. Really freaky.</p>

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<p>hahah interesting:)^^^</p>

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The 130th Managing Board did not write the article.

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<p>Really?</p>

<p>Then why did they use first-person plural so often in their Editor's Note?</p>