On 2/28/07, Brad B. wrote:
Town hall meetings, City Supervisors sending denouncements, press conferences by local race leaders; isn't this the type of overreaction that will invariably turn this single column by an idiot into more than it is? This guy could have been dismissed locally and forgotten about and now he's probably gearing up to do the rounds on the news channels. People's 15 minutes are turning into career opportunities like the one being handed to this guy by the very people who denounce him.
But the PC parade of formalities and necessaries, that keep stories going longer than they ever need to be, is in motion.
It seems like people these days have to go so far to denounce and separate themselves from unpopular behavior that we have started keeping these events alive longer than they should be. When all that is really needed is to dismiss and ignore such silliness.
Now we have this Fang guy lying about not knowing what's going on. Him meeting with leaders who he lies to, to which these groups simply don't care cause now they get some media attention. Now Fang and black leaders will have a show of reconciliation that is completely fake only to appease people. Personally I'd rather not be lied to by the Tim Hardaway's as they try and recover from their brain farts, trying to get me to believe they don't mean what they just said. It's all lies, it's a show. Lies that keep people happy. When Silent Bob had lesbian and gay jokes in his Chasing Amy screenplay, the gay groups wanted a contribution to their organization before they would endorse the movie, They just wanted a fucking cut and then they would say all is fine. It's all just lies. The funny thing here, now, is the only person being honest to himself in this story is the ignoramus who wrote the article.
Yeah. My angle is to see the Fangs suffer: politically, financially and by their reputations. This is so blatant that it magnifies what lousy people and unscrupulous journalists they are, and underscores how politically corrupt the family is.
And truth be known, some of what the idiot Eng points out does indeed happen. Relations between Blacks and Asians here are horrible. His article does not move to mend the relationship, but it does expose it to the community at large and even beyond.
All of the formalities, town hall meetings, and public events aren't necessarily a bad thing. And even when the NAACP and Ted Fang smooch to make up, the people will still know. Political Blacks in the City will know not to deal with the Fangs. Opponents now have something real to fire at James Fang during the next BART Board elections.
The Fang Family just published -- on top of the tripe they've been publishing -- the most blatantly racist column to appear in a public newspaper since the KKK was running Middle America. And for whatever fallout, whether real or for show, occurs, the Fangs look bad. I really cannot imagine them looking good around here again after this.
The fact that all 11 of the City's supervisors unanimously sponsored a resolution urging all City departments to pull any advertising from AsianWeek finally shows some willingness to punish this family for its deeds.
AsianWeek, like the other Fang-owned publications that once existed, got a huge percentage of its income from classified legal ads. If that stops, the paper stops. If the paper stops, the Fangs' voice is unheard. That won't stop racism or heal the relationship between these minority groups, but it will at least silence the last of the Fangs' assaults on the public discourse.
-chuck
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