TMZ Goes Racist
In an attempt to be more racist towards Asians than Miley Cyrus, TMZ ran the following headline over the weekend about a beauty pageant winner who is suing the event's organizers.
Miss Vietnam USA Claims Pageant No Pay Her
Yes, just like Miley believes all Asians can barely see out of their eyes, TMZ apparently believes that all Asians cannot speak a grammatically correct sentence. The shocking thing about this is that despite hundreds of comments pleading with TMZ to pull the headline, they have chosen to ignore, what is to me, extremely insulting and overtly racist. For the past two months, TMZ has been relentlessly bringing up the Miley Cyrus scandal and taking shots at her about it whenever they can bring it into an article. Obviously they thought they could do a better job of insulting Asians and so have taken it upon themselves to do so.
TMZ is a site read by millions of people each day, and now they have, by this headline and their refusal to remove it, said they are the arbiter of what is racist and what isn't in society. They judged Miley racist, but apparently in their own eyes this is perfectly acceptable. It isn't.
Sometimes I think we focus too much on being politically correct, but this is not one of those times. TMZ saw an Asian face and made the joke. They don't know the woman. Why is it they assume all Asians speak like that? Do your Asian friends speak like that? If they had made a similar remark about African Americans would there be more outrage? Would they have dared make a similar remark about African Americans? Of course not. So, why is it ok to be racist towards Asians?
