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Macaulay Culkin's past comments and how white parents might 'other' their multiracial children

Macaulay Culkin's past comments and how white parents might 'other' their multiracial children

Apr 14, 2021 1 min, 39 secs

Pawan Dhingra, a professor of American studies at Amherst College, told NBC Asian America that Culkin’s comments are problematic as they objectify his own family.

Culkin, best known for starring in “Home Alone,” went on to make additional comments about Song’s race during the full podcast interview, laughing that the first Asian joke he made to Song was, "'You know how I know you're Asian?' She goes, 'Why?' I said, 'It’s the shape of your eyes.

“I do it with her all the time, but I don’t do it in public,” Culkin said of making Asian jokes.

At one point, Culkin told Rogan that if he had Asian children, he would be “allowed” to make those comments.

But Culkin’s comments, she said, make it seem as though he’s using his relation to “the struggle” as a “passport to make Asian jokes and basically use your children as an excuse to dehumanize Asian Americans.”

… But he's using that as the premise to be able to make jokes about Asian people, which is even worse,” she said

Both Culkin, who praised Song’s ability to laugh at his jokes, and Rogan, who said individuals used to be able to make such gaffes “if you were married to an Asian woman 10 to 15 years ago,” were ignoring the fact that politically correct culture exists because there is tangible harm done when such two-dimensional images of Asians and others are perpetuated, Dhingra said

Choimorrow said the way in which Culkin spoke about his partner and would-be children reflects harmful stereotypes that lead to particularly dangerous consequences for many Asian Americans, especially Asian women

Choimorrow said Culkin’s comments echo the historical dehumanization of Asians as well as fetishization of Asian women, which has made them uniquely vulnerable to sexual and physical violence

“You actually implicitly participate in ways that perpetuate the stereotypes about us, that make it dangerous for us as Asian American women,” Choimorrow said of Culkin’s jokes

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