Guy Aoki was born on May 12,1962 and is an American civil rights activist.
10 Facts About Guy Aoki
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Guy Aoki is the leader of the Media Action Network for Asian Americans, which he co-founded in 1992.
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Guy Aoki is a contributing columnist for the Rafu Shimpo, and debates publicly on Asian American issues.
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In 2017 Guy Aoki appeared in "One Nation, Under Comedy", the fourth episode of CNN's documentary program The History of Comedy.
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Guy Aoki is concerned with negative portrayals of Asians in the media and has launched several organized campaigns to highlight his views.
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The opinions shared about Korean-Americans, and the lack of Korean American interview subjects drew criticism from Guy Aoki, who stated that the episode was not responsible journalism.
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Guy Aoki was concerned that the villainous behavior on the part of the Japanese antagonists in the film would promote negative stereotypes of Asian Americans, observing that Internment of Japanese Americans began with media demonization.
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Silverman and Guy Aoki later appeared together on the August 22,2001 episode of Politically Incorrect, along with host Bill Maher and panelists David Spade and Anne-Marie Johnson, the latter of whom was chair of the Screen Actors Guild Ethnic Employment Opportunity Committee.
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Johnson questioned the humor in the joke, and Guy Aoki opined that such slurs should not be used in an off-the-cuff manner because it legitimized their use, and that use of the word "chink" was no better than the use of the word "nigger".
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Guy Aoki, while acknowledging that satire was a legitimate practice, stated that Silverman's execution of it was not successful because it ran the risk that people would assume she actually subscribed to the racist viewpoint of her character.