Comedian Called Racist After Saying Everyone at the Oscars Watching to See If ‘Parasite’ Cast Coughs

[ASEAN NOW Content Team]

Comedian Matt Rife has been accused of racism after posting a tweet that supposedly poked fun at cast members of Bong Joon-ho’s history-changing “Parasite” at the Academy Awards on Sunday night.

 

The 23-year-old actor, who recently appeared in “Fresh Off the Boat,” “joked” that everyone at the Oscars were “waiting to see if the cast of ‘Parasite’ coughs” — an apparent reference to the notion linking people of Chinese, Japanese and Korean origin to the spread of the deadly 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).

 

The tweet, which included the popular GIF of a sweating Jordan Peele, was quickly taken down but it was up long enough to stir some controversy from infuriated users.

 

In a follow-up tweet, which was also subsequently deleted, Rife clarified that it was just a “joke” and slammed those who reacted negatively as “a bunch of cry babies.”

 

Rife, who started doing standup comedy at 15, has toured around the world with big names such as Dane Cook, Ralphie May, Finesse Mitchell, Mike Epps and Deray Davis.

 

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[JHolmesJr]

Poor joke.....now this is how you do humour in the age of NCOV:

 

 

[scubascuba3]

Natural racism, if it was the other way around the Chinese would be avoiding farang etc

[gk10002000]

That is what comedy is all about.  Goodness, if that offended somebody, well tuff.  One could also step back and say the comedian is an idiot because they were South Koreans and not mainland Chinese. 

[WorriedNoodle]

7 hours ago, Thaivisa Web Content Team said:

has toured around the world with big names

Comedy doesn't travel well, never heard of any of those 'big' names, nor the offender.

[AhFarangJa]

Once again, political correctness gone mad. Bring back Alf Garnett, Bernard Manning, Billy Connolly..........Then watch the namby pamby brigade get their knickers in a twist.......

[canuckamuck]

 Stupid woke people. The joke was a good observation of people's true nature. People from America are worried about people from Asia currently. When I get back to Canada in a couple of weeks people are going to be concerned about me coming from Thailand. Not all people, but some. The joke was not that the comedian thought all Asians were the same, in fact it implied the opposite.

[RichardColeman]

Most of us sensible people understand all racism and bigotry comedy is based on the ignorance of racists and bigots! As illustrated by our favourite Priest !

 

Edited February 12, 2020 by RichardColeman

[CraigInBangkok]

53 minutes ago, AhFarangJa said:

Once again, political correctness gone mad. Bring back Alf Garnett, Bernard Manning, Billy Connolly..........Then watch the namby pamby brigade get their knickers in a twist.......

I only ever found Billy Connolly from your list funny, but if you like thoughtful, far from politically correct and very dark comedy, I would suggest Anthony Jeselnik's first netflix special "thoughts and prayers". 

 

 

[SteveK]

Alf Garnett was bloody hilarious.

 

 

Edited February 12, 2020 by SteveK

[CraigInBangkok]

2 hours ago, SteveK said:

Alf Garnett was bloody hilarious.

 

 

far too offended by the use of red rizlas to find this even remotely funny!???? has to be blue or silver 

Edited February 12, 2020 by CraigInBangkok

[rupert the bear]

On 2/12/2020 at 5:42 AM, scubascuba3 said:

Natural racism, if it was the other way around the Chinese would be avoiding farang etc

actually they blamed it on black africans  but none of the woke noticed that but they only do one side of the coin

[Susco]

On 2/12/2020 at 7:55 AM, AhFarangJa said:

Once again, political correctness gone mad. Bring back Alf Garnett, Bernard Manning, Billy Connolly..........Then watch the namby pamby brigade get their knickers in a twist.......

 

You clearly forgot Jeremy Clarkson

[spidermike007]

Personally, I despise PC. I think it represents alot of what is wrong with contemporary culture, and especially America today. It is a major form of weakness, when you allow yourself to be easily offended, and take everything personally. Granted, there are things that can be perceived as offensive, but allowing yourself to be offended by tiny little things people say and do is a bit much! But, the people who are offended daily, by things others say, are just weak, and would benefit by growing thicker skin. Life can be rough and caustic at times, and for those of us who have grown thick skin, it is like water off a ducks back. No big deal, at all. Think what you want to think. It just does not mean anything to those with self esteem, and a sense of who and what they are. Granted, these are just my opinions, and some will take offense to them. LOL. 

 

The notion that political correctness has “gone mad” is familiar to anyone who follows even vaguely any aspect of modern political or cultural life. The phrase, ostensibly referring to language or action that is designed to avoid offence or harm to protected groups, has become a sharp criticism. It is synonymous with a sort of cultural McCarthyism, usually committed by the left.

 

https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/09/10/has-political-correctness-gone-too-far

 

 

A Rasmussen poll found that 71 percent of Americans think political correctness is a problem today. When is being politically correct more about civility and politeness? When when does it veer into censorship? When is it justified? When is it not justified?

 

https://www.jacksonville.com/opinion/2016-09-30/has-political-correctness-gone-too-far

 

University of Connecticut officials sent out a campus-wide email advising its students that the school would provide counseling 

sessions in response to political commentator and Harvard Law alum Ben Shapiro’s slated speaking event at the university. The ironic part is that the counseling sessions were offered before Shapiro even stepped foot on campus. 

 

When I was in law school, Bill Clinton came and spoke. While I wasn't traumatized, I wonder whether the administration would have provided counselors for all the women in attendance.

 

https://clclt.com/charlotte/pc-culture-10-times-its-gone-too-far/Content?oid=16059883

 

The term first appeared in the Marxist-Leninist vocabulary following the Russian Revolution (really, a coup) of 1917 to describe strict adherence to policies and principles of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party. “Political correctness” was invented by the communists to camouflage the truth about events and policies in the Soviet Union that had resulted in mass murders, the starvation of millions, and slave labor camps. It was “politically incorrect” to reveal such facts; the “party line” was for all loyal communist party members to promote the same “politically correct truths” about the “good life” under totalitarian government. 

 

https://www.telegram.com/news/20200114/roberta-schaefer-history-of-political-correctness-and-why-its-gone-way-too-far

 

Yes. I remember once I referred to someone as being gay. They were very offended. I am not gay. I am non-binary. OK. How would I know that, and how can you be offended, due to me not knowing that? How is that my issue, on any level? I told him, her, who knows, to grow some thicker skin. I am a very open minded person. I have alot of gay friends, and they are all comfortable being called gay. 
 
Words of wisdom, from a few on the incredible benefits of living your life with thick skin, and remaining impervious to criticism, what other people think and say about you, and perceived slights:
 
 
Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself.
Viggo Mortensen
 
I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.
Aubrey McClendon
 
Later on in my life, it became a big theme: just being okay and comfortable to take the risk and to have really thick skin and realize not everybody is going to love you or what you put out there. Get over it, and if you believe in yourself, your product, your act, your music, or just about anything, just keep going forward.
Jesse Itzler
 
Having a thick skin doesn't mean that you're hard or harsh. I was lucky because I was born with a thick skin. That doesn't mean that things don't bother me, but you have to keep it in perspective.
Shelley Moore Capito
 
When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop. And you know that half an hour from now, you're still gonna be bombing. It takes a thick skin.
Christopher Walken
 
 

[rcuthbert]

Group Think is a dangerous beast that is nurtured by the "elite". Inevitably, after savaging it's foes - that can't be defeated - it turns on its creators. IMHO, in 10 years, the Woke era will be viewed as an amusing blip on the historical timeline. AKA "The Cry Baby Era."

[Salerno]

13 minutes ago, rcuthbert said:

IMHO, in 10 years, the Woke era will be viewed as an amusing blip on the historical timeline.

 

I love an optimist.

[charmonman]

<deleted>. the subject of the joke was the people attending the Oscars, not the cast of Parasite. If people are too stupid to figure this out, that's their problem.

[KrantzDied]

At least, he tried. It's funny because he's wrong. The casts of the film are Koreans.

The thing that annoys me is that everyone in the world makes fun of Americans, with all the 'Murica jokes and <deleted> but I don't get offended and call it racist.

[The Hammer2021]

On 2/12/2020 at 7:55 AM, AhFarangJa said:

Once again, political correctness gone mad. Bring back Alf Garnett, Bernard Manning, Billy Connolly..........Then watch the namby pamby brigade get their knickers in a twist.......

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