Bruin Bites: Recruiting Notes, Campus News, Football Projection, and Riley Stands Out

outside of Chinatown, there is very little in the way of good Chinese food in Los Angeles. Such a shame :(

I’m sick of people taking things out of context or disregarding it altogether in an attempt to start up the phony outrage machine. If people can’t tell by the context that this is a clear mockery of Wallace’s stupidity and bigotry, then the problem is with the listener and not the speaker. Wallace sought to demean and degrade a large group of people who happen to make up a plurality of the population of her former campus with her rant. That she also sought to somehow profit from her hate speech makes it all the more disgusting. I was one of the people calling the loudest for Wallace to be expelled here, yet I have no problem with this, because I can see that the target of this particular jab is not a group of people who do not deserve it, but one complete moron who fully deserves it.

Maybe Eng has a problem with Jimmy Wong, too.

Either Eng just doesn’t get it, or he’s throwing a fake fit to play up for his constituents. Eng needs to do his job and not get confused about some Bruins who are combining entrepreneurship with a social statement that actually opposes intolerance. From the delivery service’s website:

"We believe that the best way to combat intolerance is through a positive cultural experience mixed in with a healthy serving of humor, and hope that after you try us, you too will feel that way."

Figure it out, Assemblyman, and get back to your real job.

that a-hole coaches everywhere should have been offended when Stanford offered the “What’s Your Deal” deal for football tickets?

Let me guess, you spend your time on the internet posting unenlightened comments without any basis in fact and by making wild assumptions about the original poster?

Let’s start with this little nugget of fact. I am Asian.

While the name of the Ching Chong Ling Long take out service doesn’t bother me (I’m half Asian and actually find the name rather amusing), I can understand how some people would be offended or upset about it. Monterey Park is more than two-thirds Asian, so I’m sure there are some of Mike Eng’s constituents that are unhappy.

Yes, that’s exactly the point. Rather than focus on what the people of his district elected him to do (i.e. pass legislation, pass a state budget, other tasks of governance, etc.), he’s spending time (taxpayer-funded time) feigning outrage about the name of a Chinese food delivery company. Why? Because he’s playing to his constituency, trying to drum up votes and campaign cash. And that’s pretty lame.

What’s even more asinine is that Eng decided to go after a group, as Tydides pointed out, which is using the name to speak out against intolerance. That’s like focusing your angst over ship pollution destroying marine habitats at Greenpeace because they have too have ships.

But, you’re right. I am being intolerant. I’m intolerant in calling Mike Eng a tool. What do I not tolerate? Stupidity.

And that is exactly what this blow-hard, voter-pandering tool is. Stupid.

And by the way Nick, instead of blindly defending this guy, try reading:

"I write this letter to express serious concern over the recent actions by a select number of UCLA students," Eng wrote. "It is my understanding that these students partnered with a local restaurant and established a delivery service by the name of Ching-Chong-Ling-Long Gourmet Takeout.

"California is home to a broad range of diverse communities. Acts of intolerance such as these are senseless and have a profoundly negative effect on the community as a whole.

"As a member of the California State Legislature and the Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus, I urge your office to look into this matter immediately and take appropriate action."

What do you think “appropriate action” means? Wag your finger at them in shame? No, it means drive them off campus, punish the students responsible, and/or force them to change their name.

Instead of blindly citing our First Amendment rights to free speech and expression, try remembering it goes both ways. Meaning, Ching Chong Ling Long can call itself whatever it damn well pleases and someone from a state institution, be it tool Mike Eng, or super-tool Gene Block, shouldn’t be sanctioning those people or persons for their free speech in naming the business what they named it.

Thanks for trying to fire up the lame feigned outrage machine. Try providing real contributions to the community before coming here and complaining about the content to a community you’ve provided nothing for.