New ‘SNL’ Cast Member Shane Gillis Puts anti-Asian Racism on Display in Resurfaced Video
In the since deleted YouTube video from 2018, new #SNL cast member Shane Gillis talks about going to Chinese restaurants: “The translation between you and the waiter is such a f—ing hassle, I’m pointing at it" https://t.co/GxP5RaaJqc
— Variety (@Variety) September 12, 2019
Take him down with the quickness; Not only has SNL hired their first cast memeber of East Asian descent with Bowen Yang, they also hired Shane Gillis...who, not even a year ago, was being racist against East Asian people on a podcast, complete with slurs.
this, again, is from September 2018 pic.twitter.com/inYFT22zjl
— Seth Simons (@sasimons) September 12, 2019
"An Asian trying to learn english bothers me more than someone playing Lil Uzi Vert loud on their phone," He says, there's another video in the Twitter thread.
Video episodes of the podcast have been scrubbed, but the audio remains.
the racism was brought to Variety's attention by freelancer Seth Simons. SNL / Gillis has not commented.
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he's trash
lorne's trash
bowen yang, ilu, i'm sorry
ALSO IT IS VERY FUCKED THAT THE FIRST VISIBLY ASIAN CAST MEMBER CANNOT FUCKING CELEBRATE HIS GODDAMN MOMENT (I mean fuck SNL, I'm happy for him tho) BECAUSE THIS MOTHERFUCKER'S RACISM AGAINST ASIANS OVERSHADOWS IT
I have feelings.
Edited at 2019-09-13 12:04 am (UTC)
so it's prob him
Edited at 2019-09-13 12:02 am (UTC)
he's in a group chat with pete and che and colin right now probably
ironically, most american slang comes from black popular culture, which was originally created with the intent of excluding white people from our communication and now not only is it regularly co-opted by white people it's become a barrier to entry for non-whites trying to gain a working knowledge of the base language.
Adding that I have immediate respect for anyone who can speak 2 or more languages. And yet there's fucking Chad who at 35 still cannot grasp the difference between your/you're
Also, Mandarin is absolute hell on the English tongue, so I have no right to complain about anybody's accent. Especially when I can never remember the damn tones!
and also fuck melissa villasenor who had a host of racist tweets that she quietly deleted and never apologized for
Not surprised. Mess.
Edited at 2019-09-13 12:19 am (UTC)