Michelle Malkin is a Filipino American who was born in the US in 1970 to Filipino parents. Filipinos are the second largest group of Asian immigrants in the US, and their presence has not always been appreciated.
Historically, Filipinos have been treated as second class citizens in the US. In Northern California in the 1920s and 1930s there used to be signs that read “No dogs and no Filipinos allowed.” Anti-Filipino riots broke out and Filipinos in the US at that time were victims of racial violence. Miscegenation laws prevented Filipinos from marrying Caucasians in many states, and this held in some states until 1967 when the Supreme Court found such laws unconstitutional.
With this heritage, it’s surprising that Michelle Malkin is a staunch supporter of “Republican values.” What is more shocking is her writing about ethnic stereotypes that, in my view, are in the same category as “No dogs and Filipinos allowed.”
In a recent article she wrote about possibly questionable campaign contributions to Hillary Clinton reported by the New York Post and the Los Angeles Times:
Both papers uncovered dishwashers, cooks and other suspect Hillary campaign contributors in New York’s Chinatown, Flushing, the Bronx and Brooklyn who were limited-income, limited-English-proficient and smellier than stinky tofu…
If it’s “ethnic profiling” to be extra-careful of Chinatown donors who can’t speak English, live in dilapidated buildings, have never voted, can’t tell Hillary Clinton from Hunan Chicken or simply can’t be found, then “ethnic profiling” should be the standard procedure of every responsible campaign.
This screed sounds like the words from a card-carrying member of the white supremacists or the klu klux klan rather than the child of a Filipino immigrants. Did no one tell her about fight to repeal miscegenation laws that have enabled her to marry and live with her Caucasian husband? Didn’t someone tell her about those stinky Filipino delicacies that Americans complain about? These include Bagoong (fermented shrimp paste), tuyo (dried fish), and dinuguan (pork blood stew). Her parents should have a serious talk with her. A cultural trait of Filipinos is to be humble, hospitable and accepting of others. If Michelle Malkin were to visit some of her relatives in the Philippines, they would treat her with respect. Even if they were poor, they would offer her their bed in their “dilapidated houses” and what little food they had would be shared with her. Walang Hiya
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a syndicated columnist? At one time, did she write meaningful work or has it always been this dribble?
My mother was Filipina. And there were certain people she lways referred to as walang hiya. (I never knew that’s how you spelled it, but I recognized it as soon as I saw it here.)
I have enjoyed all of those “stinky” dishes.
Cosmos, do I detest “Malkin”!!
What I observed with the hispanic population was something somewhat similar. If ‘they’ could get into the White Man’s circle, they turned on their own. It seemed to me that looking up at the power class, some people (could be anyone from any racial group), there are going to be some who salivate at the very idea of being included — like they feel they have ‘arrived.’
As for how she became a syndicated columnist? Musta been affirmative action. /sarcasm!!!!!
I enjoyed the picture Keith Olbermann showed last night. I believe she’s already for Halloween.
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who was a POW… and allows something like Ft. Huachuca (where the torture training manuals are written, and I believe headquarters now for the “School of the Americas”) to not only flourish in his state, but evidently encourage southern AZ to become the prison-plentiful police state it has become. Remember, that’s the state of Sky Harbor Airport, where the mother of three was murdered for “national security” reasons.
You would think McCain’s incarceration would engender some compassion, but in his case it backfired.
Look at his eyes, tell me he is not on some kind of meds.
Maybe Malkin too. She reminds me somewhat of Limbaugh, and we’ve heard about that.
I think a lot of these hate-mongers are fueled by substance abuse. Have heard that Coulter is a bourbon case (not to mention mixing metaphors every day before noon).
prostitutes.
I should NOT be writing this since I have never been TO a prostitute, but here is my take.
Pay the “right person” the “right amount” and they will say … type … literally ANYTHING.
Aren’t we used to that by now? Fox Noise?
(not sure if I got that right…had a few weeks in the Philippines a few years ago with an off-shore team I trained)…
I love this site, I always learn something new.
It’s great stuff!