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Enough has already been said on the topic of the now notorious Mister Chu. The comic strip's readership has spiked from five people (the artists, their mothers and the AAA censor) to approximately 12 people, according to a recent Crimson poll. And, apparently a compromise has been negotiated wherein Mister Chu will morph into a WASP. Thank God for WASPs. In this age of political correctness, where would the art of ethnic lampooning be without them...
...have noticed the debate over the comic strip "The Misanthropic Mister Chu." Permit me to propose the renaming of the comic strip to "The Misanthropic Mister Celt...
Give me a break. The recent hubbub raised over The Misanthropic Mister Chu (Op-Ed, April 17) is ridiculous and just illustrates the ludicrous extent to which political correctness has reached. Should all Asian-Americans portrayed in the media be tall, science-hating, incredibly popular people? Should all minorities portrayed in the media be completely removed any characteristic that might be taken as a stereotype--in other words be made bland, boring and unbelievable...
...reasons why there are so few minorities in the media in general. What writer would want to risk the wrath of politically correct pundits? What writer would want the task of scripting dialogue that has to be completely inoffensive? Seems to me that the attempted censorship of Mister Chu sports its own message of racial intolerance by restricting certain characteristics from Asians. And hey, Mister Chu isn't even a stereotype. After all, he doesn't even know kung...
...Harvard claims to be, it is deeply disturbing that its main student newspaper would publish racially demeaning and ignorant pieces on a regular basis. Any article that portrays Asian-Americans as slanty-eyed, socially inept caricatures would immediately receive a barrage of protests. Despite its derogatory stereotypes, "The Misanthropic Mister Chu" has run this entire semester without much controversy. The student body has mistakenly dismissed it as "harmless," because it appears as a comic strip...