Lawmaker defends comment on Asians

“Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese — I understand it’s a rather difficult language — do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?” Brown said.

Brown later told Ko: “Can’t you see that this is something that would make it a lot easier for you and the people who are poll workers if you could adopt a name just for identification purposes that’s easier for Americans to deal with?”

She understands that “it’s a rather difficult language”.  Oh man I started to laugh heartily.

I also wonder what sort of system she’d recommend be in place to determine which names are hard to pronounce, and which names are satisfactory replacements.  I know many Asian names that are damn easy to pronounce (e.g., Ho, Thanh, and Yuhao), but many “white” names that are damn difficult to pronounce (e.g., Mackenzie, Nathaniel, and Naomi).  She should propose a method of choosing names.

“They want this to just be about race,” Berry said.

It is about race once you singled-out a particular group based on an arbitrarily designated characteristic known as racial affiliation.

So many people are stupid that sometimes I just laugh with incredulity.  This is one of those times.