Comments on: Willis On The Radio #002 (Podcast) http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/18/willis-on-the-radio-002-podcast/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:30:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Rounds77 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/18/willis-on-the-radio-002-podcast/#comment-77119 Rounds77 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:00:44 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6499#comment-77119 Jay, I believe it's safe to say that the positions of the NRA don't subtract from the gun homicide rate in the US. Jay, I believe it’s safe to say that the positions of the NRA don’t subtract from the gun homicide rate in the US.

]]> By: Jay http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/18/willis-on-the-radio-002-podcast/#comment-77118 Jay Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:44:19 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6499#comment-77118 <i>I find the NRA and the way they conduct business to be morally bankrupt and crass.</i> Yes, because we know that the NRA was to blame for what happened at Columbine. Good grief. I find the NRA and the way they conduct business to be morally bankrupt and crass.

Yes, because we know that the NRA was to blame for what happened at Columbine.

Good grief.

]]> By: Max http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/18/willis-on-the-radio-002-podcast/#comment-77117 Max Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:39:50 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6499#comment-77117 Once again I loved your podcast and I'll be a frequent listener from now on! I want to add something else that many of us, as Asian Americans, are noticing about the media coverage of Cho Seung-Hui's racial & national identity. Why is he being represented as a "legal immigrant" or a "resident alien" when he is, in fact, an "American kid?" He's 23 years old, but documents indicate he was living in the US since 1992. That's 15 years ago. That means he's been socialized as an "American kid. He would've been 8 years old at the time he arrived to the US. So why are news agencies still calling him, seemingly at great lengths, a "legal immigrant" or a "resident alien?" Technically, he's "Asian American" or in Asian American Studies terms, he fits the classic 1.5 generation: foreign born, but raised in the US. There's nothing to suggest that he's a recent immigrant of less than 5 years if we define "recent" in that way. He's just as American as the next kid. So what gives??? Obviously the battle over culture is in full effect and started within a day of the attacks itself. But it seems like so long as Cho is represented as "not fully American" then the fault can be pointed to some place else. It also seems indicative of how we see race relations in the US. That it's still in "black-white" terms and that Asians are either forced to fit in, or left out. In this sad incident, it seems to be more convenient to represent Cho as this "foreign" kid as opposed to acknowledging that this is an American kid. Once again I loved your podcast and I’ll be a frequent listener from now on! I want to add something else that many of us, as Asian Americans, are noticing about the media coverage of Cho Seung-Hui’s racial & national identity. Why is he being represented as a “legal immigrant” or a “resident alien” when he is, in fact, an “American kid?” He’s 23 years old, but documents indicate he was living in the US since 1992. That’s 15 years ago. That means he’s been socialized as an “American kid. He would’ve been 8 years old at the time he arrived to the US. So why are news agencies still calling him, seemingly at great lengths, a “legal immigrant” or a “resident alien?”

Technically, he’s “Asian American” or in Asian American Studies terms, he fits the classic 1.5 generation: foreign born, but raised in the US. There’s nothing to suggest that he’s a recent immigrant of less than 5 years if we define “recent” in that way. He’s just as American as the next kid. So what gives???

Obviously the battle over culture is in full effect and started within a day of the attacks itself. But it seems like so long as Cho is represented as “not fully American” then the fault can be pointed to some place else. It also seems indicative of how we see race relations in the US. That it’s still in “black-white” terms and that Asians are either forced to fit in, or left out. In this sad incident, it seems to be more convenient to represent Cho as this “foreign” kid as opposed to acknowledging that this is an American kid.

]]> By: Oliver Willis http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/18/willis-on-the-radio-002-podcast/#comment-77116 Oliver Willis Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:37:26 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6499#comment-77116 I find the NRA and the <a href="http://www5.cnn.com/US/9904/30/school.shooting.01/" rel="nofollow">way they conduct business</a> to be morally bankrupt and crass. I find the NRA and the way they conduct business to be morally bankrupt and crass.

]]> By: Jay http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/18/willis-on-the-radio-002-podcast/#comment-77115 Jay Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:42:54 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6499#comment-77115 It was ok until you got to the point where you slandered any person that is a member of the NRA as a "sycophantic disgusting nutball." I guess you won't be supporting Bill Richardson's run for the Presidency. You wouldn't want a "sycophantic disgusting nutball" running the country would you? It was ok until you got to the point where you slandered any person that is a member of the NRA as a “sycophantic disgusting nutball.”

I guess you won’t be supporting Bill Richardson’s run for the Presidency. You wouldn’t want a “sycophantic disgusting nutball” running the country would you?

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