Asian American Empowerment: Dat Phan
As I was looking for an article to link to Dat Phan, I found an site on [Asian American Empowerment][1] which had comments on an article about [Dat Phan winning Last Comic Standing][2]. The comments pissed me off enough to take the time to create an account just so I could post a reply.
[1]: http://modelminority.com/
[2]: http://modelminority.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=486&mode=&order=0&thold=0
Posters mention the comments made by the other contestants on the show, including the ones they made by [Cory][3], [Dave][4], [Rich][5], and [Rob][6] when they were on [Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn][7]. The question that I posed is a simple one: why are their comments so bad when Dat spent all his comic routines throughout the entire series making fun of his mom and his Vietnamese heritage? What’s the difference? Am I only allowed to make fun of people who are like me? Is this related to the debate about which people are allowed to use the word “[nigger][8]”?
[3]: http://www.corykahaney.com/
[4]: http://www.davemordal.com/
[5]: http://www.richvos.com/
[6]: http://www.robcantrell.com/
[7]: http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/colinquinn/
[8]: http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/01/22/kennedy/