Apparently, Fox guest and “comedian” Terrence K. Williams thinks that calling New York Times writer Sarah Jeong “Ling Ling” and “Crazy-nese” and referring to her diet of “fortune cookies” is funny. Oh, and so does Fox host Jesse Watters.
Predictably, Watters World host Jesse Watters joined the Fox News White Racial Victim club over Jeong’s old tweets which she has said were satiric. By the way, this is the same Jesse Watters who produced a shockingly racist video of a trip to Chinatown in October, 2016. He’s also the same Jesse Watters who, just a few days ago, praised Donald Trump’s immigration policies, “Because we don't bring in some guy's uncle from Zimbabwe.”
That Jesse Watters made out like he was smarting over Jeong’s 2014 tweets and the fact that the New York Times hired her. Watters made a face as he complained she had posted “some extremely racist stuff” – as if he hasn’t spent a good chunk of his career at Fox race baiting.
“Take it away,” Watters told Williams, all but giving the nod to him to make racial jokes. But, probably, Watters didn’t want quite the level of bigotry he got, given the recent directive from the CEO.
I guess Williams didn’t get the memo about the parameters of hate that is appropriate to unleash on Fox News.
WILLIAMS: I don’t know if this lady is Chinese, Japanese or Crazy-nese – something is wrong with this woman. And I can’t believe they would hire her. They’re a bunch of hypocrites.
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There’s something wrong with them fortune cookies that Ling Ling is eating.
Watters cringed but he also laughed. “Terrence, I think you now got yourself in trouble,” Watters said. But he said it with indulgence, not offense.
Watters ended the segment then, saying, “I gotta run … I gotta go to break.” The discussion had only lasted a little more than two minutes.
Watch Watters’ attempt to hold himself up as an opponent of bigotry crumble on the air below, from the August 4, 2018 Watters World, via The Contemptor:
Terrence K. Williams mocking Sarah Jeong: "There's something wrong with them fortune cookies Ling Ling is eating."
— Contemptor (@TheContemptor) August 5, 2018
Watters: "Terrence, I think you now got yourself in trouble."
Williams: "No! No! No!."
Watters: "I gotta run. We'll be right back. I gotta go to break." pic.twitter.com/ew7BCh9eHd
Get along now, child. We’ll talk to you again when you grow up.
My only contribution to this particular thread was a snarky comment on the illiteracy of the Connie creature. Did you mistake it for actual praise perhaps?
You and Connie with your GLEEFUL outrage make me want to vomit! Hard to plead ignorance after my previous posts explaining the root of this whole incident where racist right-wingers (working to ‘make America great again’ no doubt) from the sewer of 4channel decided to troll Sarah Jeong with a racist attack. Unfortunately, they got the reaction from her they sought as she decided to fight fire with fire.
It’s just what the racist members of Trump’s white identity movement needed. Tired of wearing – in most cases deservedly – the “racist” label hurled at them by liberals this was a chance for them to return fire and build the myth of the real racists being minorities.
I don’t condone what Sarah Jeong said. Her comments are disgusting even in full context. But the motives of conservatives in this matter are beneath contempt. And pretty much any conservative thumping their chests in moral outrage are playing a cynical partisan game.
So why not crawl back to the vile, racist, right-wing fever swamp of the 4channel forums that started this horrid incident? I’m sure you’d find it a comfy home.
There’s a school of thought (that I’ve read by liberals defending her) that minorities can’t be racist because only white oppressors have power emanating from their privilege. While it’s true most racism does fit this profile it’s not exclusive to it. Minorities can be racist too. Witness African-American Terrence Williams spewing racist vomit here, feeding off the power being a Fox News pundit lends him.
So alt-right trolls assault Sarah Jeong with racist insults. Next Sarah Jeong spews racist crap in response. And here we have Fox News outraged over a liberal racist so naturally they respond with racist crap.
Fire them all and let God sort them out? 🤔
Um, I did write about the Times hiring her but I didn’t criticize them for it because as I wrote, SHE WAS BEING SATIRIC, but I guess in your “Everybody should think like me or else I’ll make a personal attack” view, that doesn’t count.
