** THE RETURN OF STANRY ROO HAS RETURNED **

You're thinking too hard.

And that's pretty bad coming from the Salarian.

Do you think I should make another thread for this tangent? It wasn't my intent to hijack what was intended to be a lighthearted thread.

I'm not sure your analogy is apt, because it isn't generally a stereotype that cancer survivors are whiny babies AFAIK (correct me if I'm wrong), so seeing another cancer patient labelled a "crybaby," you probably wouldn't have faced that yourself. That person is being treated as an individual, as he should be.

Let me see if I can explain. My family has been American for over 100 years and the only language I speak fluently is English. However, when I was a kid the other kids would pull the corners of their eyes up and make "ching chong" noises at me. Even now, my daughter's principal greets all the white parents and talks to them at open house, but turns away and acts busy when Indian and Asian parents want to talk to her (maybe she's afraid she won't understand us, maybe she's afraid we're tiger moms who will demand more homework, lol). People tell me all the time that my English is "real good" and ask me "no, where are you from really?" when I say I'm from California. So I come into the situation with experience having been  lumped into the "f-ing immigrant who can't speak English" category. The goal of the Stanrey Roo videos was to humiliate Stanley Woo (because of his heavyhanded moderation practices) and the way it was done was to pretend he doesn't speak English because that's an easy thing to ridicule and it's likely to get under his skin more because he's probably dealt with it all his life. So it's pretty much cyberbullying using racial stereotypes, IMO, which presses all of my buttons. When I see people on the forum applauding that, I wonder if they are the type of people who would treat me that way, or applaud other people treating me that way, which makes me wary.

And as for your video, Dayman, South Park is pretty evenhanded about ridiculing everyone. The clip isn't about humiliating a real person. While some might see it as racist, I personally think it's hilarious, though it would be better if the VAs were actually Asian. It's inaccurate, though, because most sushi places (at least around here) aren't actually run by Japanese people but by Koreans and Chinese people.