{"id":29699,"date":"2015-01-16T04:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=29699"},"modified":"2015-01-15T21:03:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T02:03:39","slug":"dressing-up-as-a-north-korean-general-is-racist-even-if-youre-korean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/01\/16\/dressing-up-as-a-north-korean-general-is-racist-even-if-youre-korean\/","title":{"rendered":"Dressing up as a North Korean general is racist &#8230; even if you&#8217;re Korean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Cho gets into hot water with the perpetually offended for dressing up as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/396294\/chos-not-offensive-telling-korean-american-she-cant-make-fun-kim-jong-un-katherine\" target=\"_blank\">North Korean general<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Korean-American comedian Margaret Cho did an impression of a North Korean general at the Golden Globes that many on Liberal Twitter attacked as racist because apparently not even people of Korean descent are allowed to make fun of Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n<p>In one of many jokes aimed at the recent Sony cyber-hack, Cho wore a Korean general costume and made fun of the lack of spectacle at the event:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou no have thousand baby playing guitar at the same time. You no have people holding up many card to make one big picture,\u201d she said in a thick accent. \u201cYou no have Dennis Rodman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Predictably, people went nuts.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Guardian<\/em> editor-in-chief Katharine Viner said Cho was \u201clike, totes racist.\u201d <em>Time<\/em> deputy tech editor Alex Fitzpatrick questioned how anyone could have seen the bit as anything but \u201cbroadly racist.\u201d The <em>International Business Times<\/em> managing editor called the decision to allow it a \u201cbad call.\u201d And that\u2019s just to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>Cho defended herself, tweeting: \u201cI\u2019m of mixed North\/South Korean descent \u2014 you imprison, starve and brainwash my people you get made fun of by me #hatersgonhate.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Cho gets into hot water with the perpetually offended for dressing up as a North Korean general: Korean-American comedian Margaret Cho did an impression of a North Korean general at the Golden Globes that many on Liberal Twitter attacked as racist because apparently not even people of Korean descent are allowed to make fun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,57,28],"tags":[896,279,238,99,101,310],"class_list":["post-29699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-humour","category-media","tag-kimjongun","tag-korea","tag-offensensitivity","tag-racism","tag-tv","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7J1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29700,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29699\/revisions\/29700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}