Fishbowl DC is refusing to apologize for some offensive remarks made about Jennifer Lee, a White House fellow and Special Assistant for Community Engagement at Veterans Health Administration. reports Media-ite.
Lee was named number 25 on the Hill’s “Most Beautiful” List.
An exchange among a panel commenting on the list went like this when they got to Lee.
Piranhamous: Casual staircase.
Peter: I’ve been instructed not to touch this one.
Anonymous journo: “The doctor is in”? Okay, but only if she’s wearing a glove.
Justin: Dermatologist, right? That is some porcelain skin.
Betsy: Mi so horny?
That’s Betsy as in Fishbowl DC editor Betsy Rothstein, who made that last remark.
As Media-ite points out, this is part of a disturbing trend of “casual racism” targeting the Asian American community. From the offensive and wrong names of the Asiana pilots aired by KTVU to the recent “Asian Girlz” video to the “chink in the armor” comments in a discussion about Wendi Deng on CNBC, its part of a disturbing pattern.
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Fishbowl DC prefaced its discussion with this disclaimer: Warning: To the easily offended (you know who you are) you might want to skip this because we won’t apologize.
And so far there’s been no apology from Fishbow or Rothstein, although in the archive of the discussion the remark by Rothstein has been changed from “Mi so horny” to “I wonder what kind of moisturizer she uses.”
Before you pat Fishbowl on the back, Media-ite found this exchange on Fishbowl’s twitter feed.
John Powers: Mi love you long time @FishbowlDC bit.ly/16bpJqG
FishbowlDC: @ReportingfromNY Ha, mi love you too.
Lovely. They should be proud of themselves. The sad things is they probably are proud of what they did.
