Michele Lee is an award winning reporter and anchor and
she recently received a call from an angry viewer who did not like what
she had to say about being Asian and what Asians like to eat over the holidays.
Let's watch.
>> Hi this evening you're Asian mentioned something about being Asian and
Asian people eat dumplings on New Year's Day and
can I take offense to that?
Because what if one of your White anchor said well
White people eat this on New Year's Day?
I don't think it was appropriate that she
said that and she was being very Asian and
I don't know she can keep her Korean to herself.
Alright, how are you?
It was annoying if a White person would say that they would get fired.
So say something about what like so all right, thank you.
Yes.
>> I just want to say I'm happy for that woman who left the voicemail because
her life is so pleasant and so perfect that the thought hearing someone
just simply talk about eating dumplings on New Year's Day triggered her.
Imagine having a life that perfect that something so benign would set you off to
the point where you leave a voicemail message about it.
>> And it's of course all the entitlement to which is you're not
even allowed to talk about food that comes from your background.
It's amazing.
What wait by the way, isn't that cancel culture?
Are we canceling all dumplings or only talk of dumplings.
>> But guys, what is the point of life?
There is no other point to life.
Food is the point of life.
It is like the only thing that consistently gives you pleasure.
So I would I would love this country more if all we talked about all day every day
was food.
Okay.
Food from all over the place.
Food from Korea, food from Japan, food from Mexico, Cuba I don't care.
I want to talk about food all day.
So she doesn't like pleasure, that's the problem with that woman.
>> Okay, so I wanna address the substance of it.
Okay we can.
So yes, you are allowed to say that dumplings come from Asia and
then tacos come from Mexico and kebabs come from the Middle East.
That's okay.
There's nothing wrong with that.
And by the way, as a Turk I can say kebabs come from there or gyros come from there.
Although Greeks might disagree.
Okay.
And it's okay if a White person says that, that is also true.
Although ironically they don't Tucker Carlson.
I say they kiddingly Tucker Carlson once claimed tacos are not from
Mexico that they're American food.
Okay, that's news to the Mexicans.
And by the way, are you allowed to talk about White food?
Of course.
What's White food?
And why is it not allowed are you allowed to say for example,
hamburger comes from Hamburg and and hot dogs used to be
called frankfurters because they come from Frankfurt at very White German cities?
Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that.
Who's stopping you?
Okay?
But I don't know.
Maybe I should keep my Turkish to myself.
Keep your Korean to yourself.
Do they not hear themselves?
Your anchor is being very Asian.
What did you want her to be?
>> I genuinely can't,
I don't understand that woman.
I get that she is scared of the others in her mind but
it's not like the anchor is like I
want this country to be like Korea.
No she's just talking about eating dumplings on New Year's Day.
How are you triggered by that?
Yeah. Don't eat the dumplings if you don't like
the dumplings don't cry about it.
>> And by the way there's a very specific, I don't know about Koreans but
Chinese tradition on Chinese New Years where you hide something in the dumpling.
You literally cannot talk about that tradition without mentioning the dumpling.
How dare you sir.
And and Anna of course you know the real answer is yeah she's afraid of change that
caller and she's worried that the country is becoming less White unless the customs
and cultures, she's used to and that's why she's catching feelings and
by the way there's a word for that, it's called racism.