Gothamist: Asians All Look Same to the Feds

parrobots

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:42:47 -0500

Found an interesting site on alllooksame. http://www.jref.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27828 Its point is generally "alllookdifferent". Has a nice academic reference to "Northern European" alllooksameness.

Not Amused

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:30:21 -0500

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! *ouch* That's gonna hurt in the wallet! Seriously, Welcome to the club Asian-Americans! African-Americans have been dealing with that for a long,long, time so get used to it ! As far as the person that was held for [8]days in jail. Sue the city and be done with it . I say this with a great deal of grief because that's taxpayer dough she's gonna get . It's sad and I wish there was another way to get justice for the expereience she had to go through in jail with the criminal element. That's some tuff shit to be exposed to !

Duderinoo

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 14:58:49 -0500

I concur with Brightliner. The whole submission system here screws up a lot. When it wipes out a long comment, it sort of turns you off from commenting at all for a week.

Brightliner

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:48:04 -0500

Doesn't it just give you incredible confidence in our law enforcement system? The acronym for Immigration and Customs Enforcement couldn't be more apt in this case: ICE. I can just imagine one of the officers saying behind her back, "Solly, evellyone rook rike." (Sure it's a mixture of mock Chinese and Japanese accents, but you can't expect these rocket scientists to know that.) Movable Type strikes again! My first comment of the day and I get this error message: "Your comment submission failed for the following reasons: In an effort to curb malicious comment posting by abusive users, I've enabled a feature that requires a weblog commenter to wait a short amount of time before being able to post again. Please try to post your comment again in a short while. Thanks for your patience." So I guess 36 hours or so is a "short amount of time." The best thing about these wonderful "errors" is that it wipes out what you just wrote and it's unrecoverable. Thanks a lot, Jake!

jou joung

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:59:16 -0500

This is just like the time Chow Fat Choi got confused with Chow Yun Wang who thought he was dating Choi Wang Chung and then it turns out Choi Wang Chung was actually another guy. Why can't asians get reasonable names like Harold or Percieval?

b

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:29:29 -0500

held for 8 DAYS!!!, whoa, sounds like at least an $8 million dollar suit she's looking at

S.D.

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:47:53 -0500

... Sounds like she has a case.