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[raven]

IN WHAT FUCKING UNIVERSE DOES THIS GET PUBLISHED.

I am really, really angry. My first exam is tomorrow and there is no food on any university campus and I am REALLY, REALLY ANGRY. I thought you should all know.

Comments

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

I already kind of shared the rage on Twitter but OHHHH NO HIS LOCALITY HAS A BOLLYWOOD CINEMA AND ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS INDIAN RESTAURANTS IN THE COUNTRY. LIFE IS SO HARD.

I mean, I know the function of diaspora Asians is not to gain the nice white people's approval by making awesome food available to them, but...maybe it's satire? Could it be satire? No?

[forthwritten.livejournal.com]

God Laura, didn't you know that the sole function of Indian people is to be geniuses and if they can't be geniuses, they'd better supply the local whites with excellent food and not be too threatening. How could you not know this?

[sir-rosealot.livejournal.com]

That is in Time magazine?!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I KNOW, right?

[tau_sigma]

I have only read the first few lines, and I am thinking how, I don't know, ironic? it is that he is complaining because all the places where he used to commit petty crime are gone. Oh, boo hoo, you poor man. You utter arse.

I am entirely boggled by how racist it is apparently possible to be, in widely published media.

(I kind of feel bad because I'm not angry, but I think I am too boggled. I just, I don't understand on what planet people like this live.)

So much love to you, Iona. *hugs* Good luck for tomorrow, and I hope you find food soon!

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

Oh, but you can be as racist as you want, as long as it's sub-Dave Barry "humour".

I would like to punch him in the face.

[marymac.livejournal.com]

*stares*
The hell? I do hope Time get a major smackdown.

And good luck in your exams.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Ugggh. We subscribe to TIME, but mostly because it brings the lulz (The New Yorker has better long-form reporting, and we mainly rely on the Beeb for the instant updates). I was never a fan of Joe Klein's blether, and if this was meant to be satirical I think it fails epically.

[spiffynamehere.livejournal.com]

"I am very much in favor of immigration everywhere in the U.S. except Edison, N.J. anywhere I might cross paths with them because I am a big fucking douchebag who is about to spend an entire article saying the equivalent of 'I'm not rascist, but...'."

I've fixed his first sentence for him.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Bless you honey, bless you.

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

That is just... what? I cannot believe this was actually published and actually I'm just a bit gobsmacked. I just... eh?

(Also I have just edited this comment to go with my Angry Ian icon because the whole thing is just that level of teeth-wrenching stupidly angry making.)

[littlered2.livejournal.com]

Seriously? (And what on earth is a "completely inappropriate roof", anyway?)

[highfantastical.livejournal.com]

I can think of several (paper! sugar cubes! shaped-like-a-penis!). But they have nothing to do with, you know, being Indian, so I guess that's probably not right.

...Racism and bafflement in one extremely uncharming package.

[cscottd.livejournal.com]

Is he trying to be funny?

I think he thinks he's funny... but I'm not entirely sure.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

I'm sure he thinks he's funny, in a *clever* and *ironic* sort of way.

However, I don't think the considerable South Asian immigrant populations of the general tri-state area of NY, NJ and PA are going to be doing much laughing.

[highfantastical.livejournal.com]

SUCH FAIL. *despair*

[foreverdirt.livejournal.com]

What the fucking fuck? I can't-- SERIOUSLY?

I shall be writing to TIME, and to the advertisers I see on that page, and possibly also to that man's mother.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

If you want, I can probably round up a list of companies who shared dead-tree-space with that bilge as well.

[such_heights]

... what the fucking fuck?

[sunlightdances.livejournal.com]

Adsjkldsjkdls! How dare Indian people move to a country and not have the decency to be white and already from that country?

As so often, I think the words I am looking for are "Oh, good grief."

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

Holy crap.

I kept waiting for him to say, "OBVIOUSLY I AM RACIST AND THIS IS A PROBLEM," but no. What the fucking fuck?

[dr-biscuit.livejournal.com]

You mean his poorly written, insightless bit of racist fucking drivel is NOT from the wankstain's own blog? Set phasers to kill

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Well, if it is, it's *also* in print, in the US at any rate.

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

You know, I figured Joel Stein for a douchebag, but I never thought he'd prove it so definitively in print. Jesus fuck, how did that get published?

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

IDEK. Maybe TIME magazine was actually *looking* for fodder that would get a violent reaction out of some of their readership?

[soupytwist.livejournal.com]

... okay, the fact someone was probably PAID ACTUAL MONEY FOR THAT SHIT is, just. DAMN. If it would do any good, I'd quite happily explain to that guy that those people and their lives are, in fact, nothing to do with him. With a cricket bat.

(Seriously, that is the thing I find weirdest - it's a very personal sense that these strange brown people are DELIBERATELY DESTROYING HIS HOME. Like, even with the supposed-to-be-funny, there is a whole level there that is clearly not joking. It's like the woman at my office who once very seriously explained to me that the council moved white people out of her neighbourhood and moved immigrants in. Complete with "AND WHERE ARE THOSE LOCAL PEOPLE NOW, EH" we-all-know-the-Council-KILLS-them-or-something-because-the-council-LOVES-IMMIGRANTS weirdness. Eugh.)

Also I am going to include in my email that I hope his morals don't let him go toplaces run by immigrants. Like his local corner shop and the garage and the bank where he'd cash his cheques.

[icepixie]

At some point I need to pick my jaw up off the floor, but it's going to be a while yet, I think. Christ.

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

UGH. What a fake-funny total wanker.

(Even now he's somewhere muttering he was just jooooooking, why are people upseeeeet? Fucking loser).

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Update. (http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2010/06/29/indians-unamused-by-times-edison/?mod=wsj_share_facebook) Joel Stein still a douche; weirdly, blogs.wsj.com picking up the pieces of this story.

[vampire-kitten.livejournal.com]

Also: http://twitter.com/thejoelstein/status/17265335792 Guy does not know when to quit and apologise!

[roga.livejournal.com]

Holy shit, wow. At one point I thought he was trying to be funny, but there is no way he is that bad at it, which is somehow worse.

[stained_glass]

That is just... so disgusting. I feel dirty for having read it. how can they have printed this?

[biascut.livejournal.com]

I kind of want to quote the worst parts, just to get a reality check on whether it's ACTUALLY AS BAD AS ALL THAT, but I see no reason to subject your journal to that.

But good GOD! "now we understand why India is so poor"??

OK, not clicking again, no more ad revenue for Time. BUT GOOD GOD. I am so sorry racist toss like this gets published.

[walkertxkitty.livejournal.com]

That...is disturbing and disgusting. While I have to uphold the author's right to free speech, I also equally uphold any sensible person's right to beat the living shit out of said author for saying something so disgusting and offensive.

I'm sorry you don't have anything to eat before your exams near to hand and I hope you know that you are welcome here at any time...always have been and always will be.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*smiles* I do appreciate that. Thank you, honey, and I hope you're having a good day.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

Offensive tasteless nonsense. I didn't think Time printed this sort of thing.