# Alex Trebek made some hella racist comments tonight **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2013, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-trebek-made-some-hella-racist-comments-tonight/655896 "2013-04-17T01:11:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-trebek-made-some-hella-racist-comments-tonight/655896/1 "2013-04-17T01:11:41Z")
During the interview section he was talking to this girl who was a technical writer, and he literally compared writing esoteric academic language in layman’s term to “translating Chinese and Japanese” what an asshole ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-trebek-made-some-hella-racist-comments-tonight/655896/2 "2013-04-17T01:14:23Z")
Isn’t that more of an insult to technical writers? I don’t see these comments as racist. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-trebek-made-some-hella-racist-comments-tonight/655896/3 "2013-04-17T01:14:53Z")
Not even a little bit racist. You should dial down your outrage meter a notch or two. Do you find translating those languages to be easy? ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-trebek-made-some-hella-racist-comments-tonight/655896/4 "2013-04-17T01:16:29Z")
Get real. He was using a metaphor. ETA: Or maybe a simile. I don’t know his exact wording. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-trebek-made-some-hella-racist-comments-tonight/655896/5 "2013-04-17T01:30:43Z")
This is the dumbest shit I’ve read in at least a week. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-trebek-made-some-hella-racist-comments-tonight/655896/6 "2013-04-17T01:31:47Z")
I hope you’re being sarcastic, because nothing about that makes Trebek look racist. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-trebek-made-some-hella-racist-comments-tonight/655896/7 "2013-04-17T01:32:26Z")
Check **PSXer** ’s other threads. You’ll change your mind. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-trebek-made-some-hella-racist-comments-tonight/655896/8 "2013-04-17T01:33:16Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > During the interview section he was talking to this girl who was a technical writer, and he literally compared writing esoteric academic language in layman’s term to “translating Chinese and Japanese” > what an asshole Shouldn’t that be “what is an asshole?” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-trebek-made-some-hella-racist-comments-tonight/655896/9 "2013-04-17T01:33:49Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > This is the dumbest shit I’ve read in at least a week. Which is clearly intentional. You need to adjusted your sense of humor, **PSXer**. I don’t think you’re trolling, but the difference between trolling (making people angry on purpose) and these kinds of threads (where you confuse and annoy people on purpose) is too slim. I’m closing this.