Michelle’s got a fee-vah and the only prescription is more NYT Obama merchandise!

Michelle is a self hating minority in the same league like uncle Steele

nice343 on May 21, 2009 at 11:26 AM

Oh my. If you wanted to be banned, you need only have asked. Au revoir.

Allahpundit on May 21, 2009 at 11:35 AM

Good, but I think I’ll miss my daily reminder of the liberal mind.

OTOH, there’s still strangelet and Grow Fins!

For those unfamiliar with where the “self-hating minority” comes from, it’s in reference to the book Michelle wrote about the WW2-era roundup of Japanese in America. Since it’s popular to categorize all Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Koreans, Filipinos, etc. as “Asian,” and since Michelle is also classified as Asian, she must hate herself if she criticized the Japanese. The argument is wrong, of course, because the Japanese were hated by their neighbors more than by anyone else because of their occupation of neighboring lands. In WW2, the Philippines were an ally of the US, and an enemy of Japan.

tom on May 21, 2009 at 2:59 PM

Tom @ 2:59

Since it’s popular to categorize all Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Koreans, Filipinos, etc. as “Asian,” and since Michelle is also classified as Asian, she must hate herself if she criticized the Japanese.

Tom, you’ve taken your argument to the extreme and into the personal and lost validity. As an American, M.Malkin has never identified herself as a hyphenated-citizen on racial genetics though her ancestors are from the Philippines. She has NEVER attacked anyone based upon their race, and in fact, has severely criticized people for any racist appearance they’ve taken in politics (Ron Paul, for example, getting labeled anti-Semitic and then the slew that follows THAT blow–again, more to it than that as per radicalism).

Malkin’s book was not written from a racist point of view. Its research substantiated the premise, but missed background details that would have prevented her message from being mistaken, and in turn, she taking the fall for extremism. Criticism taken solidifies the next project. Her point is still valid, her detractors miss the point in order to assail personal vendettas of their own. Their loss should not be ours: do NOT ignore, neglect or abandon racial profiling when searching for a terrorist of a specific racial make-up, just as when searching for a criminal of a specified gender or age or size, that information is vital to utilize and broadcast.

maverick muse on May 21, 2009 at 3:56 PM

That’s not my argument. That’s just the perspective of those who accuse MM of being a “self-hating minority.”

Apparently you missed the very next sentence of mine,

The argument is wrong, of course, because the Japanese were hated by their neighbors more than by anyone else because of their occupation of neighboring lands.

The point being, that calling a Filipino woman “self-loathing” because she criticized the Japanese is about like calling an Englishman “self-loathing” because he mumbled under his breath about the French. Filipinos feel no particular loyalty to Japanese, or Koreans to Vietnamese. That’s projection from self-important liberals who think that all Asians are just alike.

So the people calling MM a “self-hating minority” are ignorant, and exposing their own racism.

tom on May 22, 2009 at 3:26 AM