This whole over-sharing culture we are indulging in has its perks but it also has its pitfalls, as this Indiana University student named Samuel Hendrickson can probably tell you. Last night, he uploaded a video entitled “Why I’d Hate To Be Asian (Totally Not Racist)” to his Facebook account listing all of the stereotypical reasons why he would hate to be Asian. And this being the internet, his video got re-uploaded to YouTube and spread like wildfire, outting him as not only an idiot but a racist one at that.
I know the internet allows us to rant like human-kind has never ranted before, but shouldn’t one person’s racist mistake on YouTube be a good enough reason to keep those thoughts to yourself?
Given what happened to Alexandra Wallace at UCLA 2 years ago, Samuel Hendrickson here should just go ahead and apply for a name change now, because honestly, any person that Google’s him from this day forth is going to know that he never wants to be Asian because he hates sushi…and other things.
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Leave the kid alone. It was a joke and shouldn’t have been taken out of context. He doesn’t hate Asians.
What was the correct context?
What was the joke?
The video is called “why I’d hate to be asian”……he doesn’t hate Asians? You have a comprehension problem.
Geez Tot…you’re quick way of thinking is like old people fuck…slow and sloppy
According to the uploader, who knows the guy personally.
“He made the video public on Facebook and decided to belittle anyone who opposed his video with elementary school-like comments. He and his friends spammed my Facebook and called me a “raging faggot” and said he would “dismantle me socially” for standing up against him. He even sent me a message thanking me for posting this video. He said “I was going to post it myself”.
If you’re from a minority group and a person from a majority group (student from Indiana 74% White, 3% asian, http://www.iu.edu/~uirr/reports/standard/enrollment/official.shtml) makes jokingly comments sure it’s funny!! Of course the majority of the school may think it’s funny. It’s not about them. To casually stereotype asian’s in this demeaning manner is wrong. It’s not a joke. It’s cruel. It’s the bully mentality where one thinks they are superior to another and finds no harm and fault in their statements however jovial it may seem. This immoral person should have realized his jokes are not funny. People like this should hide, far away, in a cabin far out in the woods because this is the world and insensitive jerks like this have no place. Funny huh…?
It was a joke, and the stupid kid that posted this video was just trying to get revenge because the 2 kids got into a couple arguments (NOT just over this video, they did NOT get along) And the stupid kid is just trying to start trouble. He was not trying to hurt anyone, he should not have posted this but it was not done with malice and quite frankly there is a LOT worse things out there. This is so stupid that this has gone viral. It doesnt say a whole lot about the people making it into public news. Jeeze people say worse things every day.
Joke or not, it’s out there now. There is no point in saying that he didn’t mean it, he doesn’t hate asians, its not his fault…there is nothing he can do about it and he now has to deal with the consequences. He was stupid enough to make an extremely distasteful video, poking fun at racism, and thinking that people were going to be ok with. All I can say is that it sucks to be him, and good luck succeeding in life with this permanent evidence following him for the rest of his life.
There isn’t a racist bone in my body; but why is it always white people who record and post their racist rants on the internet? Alexandria Wallace, this kid, etc. Are they all descendants of KKK members?
It’s sad to think that even in this day and age* people like this still exist.