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Tina Fey is facing backlash after TikTok videos showing the comedian-actor making Asian people the butt of her jokes and purportedly normalizing anti-Asian racism went viral.
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“She has a very specific way of talking, that I realized she kind of sounds like a prostitute in a Vietnam movie,” Fey says, drawing laughter from the audience. Fey then goes on to mock a Vietnamese accent, comparing her daughter’s speech to the lewd, stereotypical depictions of Vietnamese women on screen.
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@Buiside also goes on to mention how she makes a joke out of Asian people in several of her movies and shows, from Korean nail salon workers who speak broken English in the 2015 comedy movie “Sisters” to Dong Nguyen’s character in the Netflix sit-com “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.”

“She casts a Korean guy to play a Vietnamese refugee. And the problem that I had with that is that he had to speak Vietnamese for his lines,” says @Buiside. “He also needed to have a Vietnamese accent, which he butchers both because he’s Korean.”

The TikTok user continues, “The worst part is she named him Dong Nyugen. And there’s a running joke that his name means ‘****.’ She even makes him say a joke that ‘Kimmy’ means ‘****’ in Vietnamese — which it doesn’t. But she doesn’t even care to be correct. Because at the end of the day she makes being Asian the joke, itself.”

“If you want to know why racism is so normalized in the U.S., it’s because of people like her. And how she portrays Asian people in her media. It’s disrespectful,” he concludes.

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