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'Racist' Fox News piece blasted by Asian-Americans and people with basic sense of decency


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This is not "gentle fun."

Earlier this week, The O'Reilly Factor sent Jesse Watters to interview people in New York City's Chinatown, ostensibly to talk about the upcoming election. 

What followed was pretty much every tired, offensive Asian stereotype you could fit into  five minutes of television. 

There were gongs. "Kung Fu Fighting" played in the background. At one point, they played a random clip of Mr. Miyagi (who, by the way, was fictional and Japanese).

Watters asks a few stupid questions like, "Do you know karate?" (also Japanese) and "Is it the year of the dragon?" (It's the year of the monkey.) Read more...

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