SFist: Oh No, Ed Jew!: Plaintiff

CacoBird

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:19:27 -0800

Rita, I think you're great!

Bill

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:06:58 -0800

Im on mai laptopz laffin mai azz off at meliza

Suz

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:50:12 -0800

Wow. The possibility that people might think it was an accent thing never even ocurred to me... either I've spent *waaay* to much time on icanhasceezburger or I'm just oblivious. I just assumed Jew had an American accent, myself.

HEJJ

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:57:39 -0800

Qwitchercryin notafan. Ever heard of a thing called satire? Fact is - cats just aren't PC. Sorry. Don't blame them, they're stupitarded too.

Christine

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:40:56 -0800

Thank you for addressing the issue, Rita, but I really don't see why it was necessary. It only came up becausde of notafan's total ignorance of both lolcats and of Ed Jew's speech abilities. I'm at a loss to figure out how the "parduhn" lolcat is akin to Mickey Rooney's caricature of an Asian man. I don't see that at all. It's just an ordinary photo of Ed (not parodied or photoshopped in any way) with a standard LOL "I can has" caption attached to it. Why are we getting our panties in a bunch over this? Mocking a person who happens to be Asian does not make the mocking racist. By the way, Melissa, you've been doing a great job! Keep 'em coming!

heatherr

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:31:46 -0800

someone needs to do a 'all your base belong to us' version.

Sweet Melissa

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:04:19 -0800

"I can has ___?" is a seminal LOL line, invoked most amusingly at http://icanhascheezburger.com/ For the record: There was no intent to make fun of the fact that Ed is Asian. I was making fun of the fact that Ed is Adouchebag. -Sweet Melissa

Rita

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:03:19 -0800

Sorry guys, our server is having some issues today -- I'm going to try and clean up the multiple posts (and this comment may appear multiple times as well) Notafan, first, I want to say I totally respect and appreciate your comment (and thank you for the compliments on the coverage in general). I also did think about accent issues before posting the LOLJEW pictures -- it can be a sensitive subject among Asian-Americans. So I ended up deciding the pictures were okay, because 1) LOLCATS spelling conventions, as other commenters have noted, and 2) Ed Jew is a third-generation Asian-American (born in SF, grandfather immigrated to California in the early 1900s) and speaks standard American English. You can check out his fluency in this interview he did with Dan Noyes. Thanks for bringing up the issue, though -- and I'm glad to have the opportunity to explain my thinking on it!

AF

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:27:05 -0800

I adore the LOLJEW photos and am a huge sfist fan. But I have to say the last one "I can has parduhn" image looks like a bad Mickey Rooney Asian stereotype. I guess it's the subject-verb reversal and third person conjugation errors that many furrhners tend to commit when learning English. The same grammar violations I surely commit when speaking Spanglish. Jew may be a criminal but he was born and raised in the City! Or Burlingame! My point is that last LOLJEW was out of line, damnit!

Christine

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:14:32 -0800

Oh, for chrissakes, people. Go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lolcats and educate yourselves. It's just a funny way to waste time and mess with photographs. The end. (Editors: there seems to be a problem with the posting function today. We're all posting multiple times.)

chard

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:06:48 -0800

Neither did I, rroseselavy.

rroseselavy

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:08:29 -0800

I don't get it either, notafan.

Christine

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:57:51 -0800

What Ann said. Try googling "LOLCATS" or go to sites that have LOLCATS on other subjects. They ALL have slanted spelling and grammar in their captions. That's the whole point of the game. Also, last I checked, Ed Jew speaks perfect English (he was born here). You assume that because he's Asian, he has "less than perfect English speaking abilities"? THAT is pretty unsettling, notafan.

Ann

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:56:52 -0800

I think that notafan is confused about the LOLCATS "statements". It's not a Jew-thing. It's a Kat-thing. See... catz cant spellz so gud, and they have terrible grammar. When they get their paws on your computer, they like to add text to photos -- mostly misspelled and grammatically incorrect text. They're smart enough to detect something is amiss in our local politics but not smart enough to use Spell Check! That's the LOLCATS thing.

notafan

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:40:22 -0800

Ummm...don't mind the Tapioca Ed monicker etc., and the entire coverage has been spot-on since this whole thing started, but the captioned photos are pretty unsettling to me. It's obvious the guys an idiot, but do you really have to capitalize on his less than perfect English speaking abilities? Not so funny.

rita

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:30:03 -0800

Oh, no no no no, MPetrelis! My only objection to your sign was that everything is spelled correctly and it doesn't use the LOLCATS font!

MPetrelis

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:51:13 -0800

Sorry you didn't approve of my sign at the meeting yesterday, but somebody had to show up with one telling Jew to resign! ;-) I've posted pix of me with my sign outside Jew's City Hall office on my blog: www(dot)petrelisfiles(dot)com .

MPetrelis

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:48:16 -0800

Sorry you didn't like my sign, but somebody had to show up with one! ;-) mpetrelis.blogspot.com/2007/06/ed-jew-time-to-resign.html

Sweet Melissa

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:43:37 -0800

Thanks so much for the shout out, rita! Your coverage of Tapiocagate has been fantastic! I love that neither of the rallies are in District 4. Maybe there will be a demonstration of support in Burlingame, too. And in Germany. And a bunch of other places where Jew is NOT s'posed to be living/representing. -Melissa

heatherr

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:42:11 -0800

Treyman, I agree. I think that set some sort of record...for shortest time between losing any credibility and playing the race card.

Treyman

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:41:44 -0800

Yes folks it's here to save the day! Just saw on the news this morning what has arrived to rescue the Jewster. It's a Bird! It's a Plane! No wait it's Race Card........