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July 11, 2010

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Eventually, there were enough Indians in Edison to change the culture. At which point my townsfolk started calling the new Edisonians "dot heads." One kid I knew in high school drove down an Indian-dense street yelling for its residents to "go home to India." In retrospect, I question just how good our schools were if "dot heads" was the best racist insult we could come up with for a group of people whose gods have multiple arms and an elephant nose.

Who said it? If you guessed Pat Buchanan or Joe Biden, I wouldn't blame you, but you'd still be wrong. Which MFM outlet published it—and apparently has not a single editor who would say "What the fuck are you thinking?" before someone published it? Click here to find out!

(h/t Darleen.)

Posted by: Sean M. at 01:19 AM | Comments (17) | Add Comment
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1 I don't know why, but I figured it was joel stein.

Funny, but journalist? No.

Leftist? Yes.

Posted by: Douglas at July 11, 2010 02:18 AM (uU+Ss)

2 This is crossing the line for even THESE guys. Wow... simply wow.

Posted by: Old Iron at July 11, 2010 08:13 AM (OtImV)

TIME responds: We sincerely regret that any of our readers were upset by this humor column of Joel Stein's. It was in no way intended to cause offense.

Joel Stein responds: I truly feel stomach-sick that I hurt so many people. I was trying to explain how, as someone who believes that immigration has enriched American life and my hometown in particular, I was shocked that I could feel a tiny bit uncomfortable with my changing town when I went to visit it. If we could understand that reaction, we'd be better equipped to debate people on the other side of the immigration issue.

These two explanations don't seem to jive...

Posted by: Dave at July 11, 2010 03:20 PM (+B3oV)

4 It is a feature of their basic character. They feel sorry for all these stupid minorities that they themselves have spent so much time humiliating, that it's important to humiliate them more, by accentuating that they are different from everyone else, like Stein.

Meanwhile, Rabid pro-service, pro-american, pro-business, pro-freedom lunatics like me, had a crush in 3rd grade on Mini (I can't spell her last name, but it's one of those long "dothead" names) and she persistently shut me down for years.

She probably saw my inner racist.

Posted by: Douglas at July 11, 2010 04:46 PM (uU+Ss)

5 You gor ir Dave, that cracked me up too.

TIME says, "Hey, it's just a joke. Lighten up."
Tool says, "Yeah, you got me. I was just writing what I felt and since I felt it, everybody must so I was trying to start a dialogue."

Watching Minitru implode has been freaking hilarious, and it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of hack, yellow "journalist" tools.

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My favorite is when it quotes the post or commenters so we get cussing spam.

One even wanted to punch a hippy.

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9 I've seen some that were clearly entered by hand.

Some people have no lives. I mean, even less so than me.

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