# Token chinese **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [November 23, 2024, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/token-chinese/1010635 "2024-11-23T01:03:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/token-chinese/1010635/121 "2024-11-25T04:30:18Z")
If you were visiting your relatives in China and publicly insulted the government with: “China has gone backwards in human rights and freedom in the last ten years, and the starting point was pretty horrible. Everyone knows this, no one is denying this,” what would happen? You really believe that China had a miscommunication of landing procedures involving the President of the United States? ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/token-chinese/1010635/122 "2024-11-25T04:37:23Z")
> [@Mighty\_Mouse](#): > > If I claim that the Manson family is out to murder me, and you tell me there’s no evidence of that, are you all of a sudden a Manson supporter? I brought up real world events involving insults from a government YOU said does very very bad things. Yet somehow insults are a fantasy. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/token-chinese/1010635/123 "2024-11-25T04:46:10Z")
See my Manson example. Rattle it around in your pea sized brain. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/token-chinese/1010635/124 "2024-11-25T05:10:14Z")
I read your example. It had no basis of fact. You however, have admitted that China has done very very bad things but somehow insulting the President of the United States is beyond that. ---
**Author:** ![Loggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/token-chinese/1010635/125 "2024-11-25T05:15:05Z")
Look, for doubting my knowledge of china, my sister-in-law is chinese, she lives in the same house as me. I have some pretty intimate knowledge of china. She dare not go back to Hong-Kong because of the danger it would put her in. So yes, enemy of the west. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/token-chinese/1010635/126 "2024-11-25T05:24:50Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > It was intended as an insult to a regime with interment camps for Uyghurs. I thought they buried that story. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/token-chinese/1010635/127 "2024-11-25T05:33:48Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > > [@Dissonance](#): > > > > Well, at least he isn’t bothering to try to conceal his racism. > > It was intended as an insult to a regime And that’s why you need to include white actors in yellowface to rub it in their noses, amirite? Nothing says “I’m not being racist; I’m directing my ire towards a regime and not a nationality” like yellowface. Fucking idiot. Go back to explaining how double punching chimps breaks the laws of physics. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/token-chinese/1010635/128 "2024-11-25T05:56:21Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I thought they buried that story. They’re trying, one member of the Uyghurs at a time. ---
**Author:** ![Xocomil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xocomil/32/14927_2.png) [@Xocomil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xocomil)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/token-chinese/1010635/129 "2024-11-25T06:12:07Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > [@Magiver](#): > > > > That’s your purgative. > > You’ve got to be shitting me. > [@Monty](#): > > > [@Magiver](#): > > > > It was intended as an insult to a regime with interment camps for Uyghurs. > > I thought they buried that story. You’re on fire! ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/token-chinese/1010635/130 "2024-11-25T06:21:24Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > And that’s why you need to include white actors in yellowface to rub it in their noses, amirite? Nothing says “I’m not being racist; I’m directing my ire towards a regime and not a nationality” like yellowface. As much as I meant to insult the Chinese government I did not mean that for the Chinese people who suffer under it. They were not the intent of my total disdain for Xi Jinping and for that I apologize. They represent the people who protected American flyers at a tremendous loss of life in WW-II and I hold them in great esteem. I saw the request for a token Chinese actor as an attempt by Xi Jinping to dictate social policy to the United States at a time when he is the epitome of evil against his own people. I apologize to the Chinese people for the Charlie Chan remark. It was uncalled for. ---
**Author:** ![Loggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/token-chinese/1010635/131 "2024-11-25T06:26:28Z")
Well said ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/token-chinese/1010635/132 "2024-11-25T07:26:39Z")
> [@Xocomil](#): > > You’re on fire! Thanks. And at this very moment, my school in Beijing is having a fire drill. I have to do something to stay warm as it is 5 C/41 F outside. @Magiver Sorry to be having so much fun with your misspellings in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/token-chinese/1010635/133 "2024-11-25T07:43:21Z")
> [@Loggins](#): > > HongKong > [@Loggins](#): > > Hong-Kong It is neither one word, nor is it hyphenated. Idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/token-chinese/1010635/134 "2024-11-25T10:34:12Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > You guys don’t understand the true nature of war. Sometimes you have to do things that you would normally consider wrong. > > So when the enemy makes a movie, you have to retaliate by not capitalizing the name. > > Then afterwards, you have to learn how to live with what you’ve done I’m currently on holiday in China, and while there have been many things that have impressed me, the regular freeview TV remains dreadful: plodding period dramas and QVC-like sales stuff desperately trying to fill time. Let alone the 1970s style variety shows. If this is the work of American infiltrators, as part of striking back…what hath thou wrought?! Hopefully the ICC is looking into it. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/token-chinese/1010635/135 "2024-11-25T10:40:44Z")
I was under the impression that Lang Lang was a giant panda. I need to catch up. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/token-chinese/1010635/136 "2024-11-25T12:23:01Z")
You’re thinking of Ling-Ling and Sing-Sing. Ursiform agents of Kaos planted in Washington DC with the collaboration of that Quisling Nixon. @Magiver You’d probably have received a less hostile reception to your concerns if you hadn’t raised them in the for of “Well axshually…” in a classic Yellow Peril thread. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/token-chinese/1010635/137 "2024-11-25T14:31:45Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > I was under the impression that Lang Lang was a giant panda. I need to catch up. No, I’m pretty sure Lang Lang was one of Superman’s girlfriends. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/token-chinese/1010635/138 "2024-11-25T14:43:55Z")
Why can’t she be both? ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/token-chinese/1010635/139 "2024-11-25T15:07:57Z")
It would violate the law of psychics? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/token-chinese/1010635/140 "2024-11-25T16:17:38Z")
_"What_ law of psychics?" “Avoid James Randi.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/token-chinese/1010635.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/token-chinese/1010635.md?page=8)