MEDIA LOSER: Stephen Crowder Stephen Crowder has a long and sordid history of saying outrageous, stupid, and bigoted things to get attention, but the nasty insults he directed at San Francisco-area CBS affiliate KPIX reporter Betty Yu stand out for their aggressive racism and misogyny. Yu was covering the controversy over In-N-Out Burger being shut for indoor dining there because they were not checking patrons’ vaccination status. Crowder played a clip of the KPIX report and broke out into laughter as soon as Yu appeared on the screen. “Oh! That is an aggressively Asian face!” he said -- and it didn't stop there. Crowder also referred to Yu as "full Asian" as opposed to the "kind of Americanized Asians" that reporters "usually" were. "I wish she would have kept her fan," commented one of Crowder's co-hosts. "Well, yeah, a little bit of geisha," Crowder replied. KPIX condemned Crowder's "horrible and racist attack." There's a debate to be had about how government and businesses should respond to the Covid-19 pandemic, but none of Crowder's slimy little comments had anything to do with Yu's reporting. He was mocking her appearance, attacking her race, and peddling in bigoted tropes that sexualize Asian women. |