Photo of Miley Cyrus slanting her eyes surfaces on the internet. Slammed by Asian group

[Liberal_in_LA]

Miley Cyrus' slant-eye pose slammed by Asian group
Tue Feb 3, 2009 2:40pm EST

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Disney teen idol Miley Cyrus has been accused of taunting and mocking Asians by making slant-eye poses in a personal photograph with her friends.

A snapshot of Cyrus, 16, best known as the star of the Disney Channel show "Hannah Montana", and friends posing with an Asian friend and pulling their eyes sideways surfaced on the Internet this week.

The OCA, a national organization in the United States dedicated to advancing the social and political welfare of Asian Pacific Americans, called on the singer-actress to apologize.

The group said the image "falls within a long and unfortunate history of people mocking and denigrating individuals of Asian descent."

"Not only has Miley Cyrus and the other individuals in the photograph encouraged and legitimized the taunting and mocking of people of Asian descent, she has also insulted her many Asian Pacific American friends," OCA executive director George Wu in a statement issued on Monday.

Wu said the fact that an Asian friend was included in the photo "does not make it acceptable."


http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5125ZK20090203

[Enrique]

1. she should ask her friends to stop photographing her

:shrug:

[LisaL]

8. How many photos did she have to apologize for already?

And she is only 16.

[catnhatnh]

2. I Despise People...

who get drunk to "appear" Irish like me. In fact I get mad whenever non-irish have the temerity to drink...we should start an outrage group!!!

[cherish44]

14. Here, here!

Some people achieve greatness, others have it thrust upon them, and then there are those who are BORN Irish :toast:

[Chulanowa]

3. Was the guy in the photo cool with it?

If so, who cares?

Looks like seven teenagers being dumbasses after cheap wine to me, big fuckin' whoop.

[provis99]

4. at least she doesn't have those annoying bug eyes in that picture

seriously, her eyes normally look like pug eyes about to pop out of her head.

[Orrex]

5. Her whole Disney-spawned career offends me

[QueenOfCalifornia]

6. creepy, huh?

I really can't take more than 1 second of her on my TV - She moves like Elaine Bennis when she would "dance" - all jerky and without any "soul." I wish she would leave me the fuck alone but where ever I go, I see her face - on kids shoes, shirts, jeans... in print ads she is every-fucking-place.

Ugh... A lot of good that did for her predecessor Brittany. :eyes:

[Orrex]

7. I heard a brief interview on the radio a few months back

She may have been under the weather, but I swear that she sounded like a 40-year-old whiskey drinker who chain-smokes.

She's the heir apparent to the Olsen Twins' creepy media omnipresence, which was plenty sick enough in its own day.

[Mollis]

20. That's how she normally sounds

[mitchum]

30. Disney just represents everything banal and tawdry (and not in a good way)...

about contemporary American culture.

[JCMach1]

9. If I had to face faux outrage for every idiotic thing I did as a teenager...

Not saying she isn't stupid... just saying duhhhhh, what did you expect?

[Bluebear]

10. Why is this "faux" outrage?

[JCMach1]

12. teenagers do 'stupid' things

it's a given... and yes those can include, racist, sexist,disgusting, etc. Just take your pick...

But honestly, we shouldn't act any differently than if we saw the same thing in the idiot kid down the street...

[Bluebear]

13. "Faux" means fake, I don't think the Asian group is being insincere.

You can say it's much ado about nothing if you want, but I wouldn't call their protests artificial.

[JCMach1]

17. It is faux because it really doesn't matter...

Is Miley a racist... probably not...

[Bill McBlueState]

25. It doesn't seem like you know what "faux" means.

It means "false" not "doesn't matter."

[brettdale]

11. poor girl

I mean really, that is nothing at all, what I would like to know is...

Why is most media cutting out everybody else from the picture????

[LisaL]

18. Because the rest are not celebrities and thus of no interest to

most people?

[Wiley50]

21. `Look Again. I believe that's her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, in the red shirt n/t

[LisaL]

22. You need glasses or something. The guy in the red shirt is

about 20 years old.

[NutmegYankee]

15. We have a problem in our society. We hold teenagers to adult standards.

Young people do stupid stuff, and learn from it. I doubt anyone in that photo is racist, since one of them is Asian and taking part in the photo. It was teenage humor that is lost on adults.

It bother me that we can't just realize that kids sometime just act like kids.

[cherish44]

16. Not as bad as the pics that she took of herself that basically were mastabory aids for perverts

If my 14 year old daughter were taking pictures of herself like that, her phone would be BYE BYE for a long time.

[LisaL]

19. Although she is wearing all her clothes in this one, she is still sitting on the

lap of a 20 year old guy.

[Zywiec]

27. Sitting on the lap equals what?

You've never sat on anyone's lap before?

When I was her age we used to pile in cars with everyone sitting on laps. It meant nothing.

Does everything have to be sexualized?

[ozu]

23. Oh no

Teenagers doing stupid things. Shocking.

[WI_DEM]

24. I guess if the guy in the photo didn't mind I wouldn't make a big deal out of it.

[deaniac21]

26. Methinks, they protest too much.

[tuckessee]

28. Much ado about nothing. n/t

[CRK7376]

29. What's the big deal?

No context to the photo, a bunch of kids clowning for the camera....My 10 yo daughter loves Miley/Hannah and we have no problem with the young lady. Maybe a few stupid things have happened, but in the long run she's a kid that sets a pretty good example for her fans. We were lucky to get tickets to her show a year ago and my wife and daughter had a FANTASTIC time. She seems so much more gounded than other teen stars to us....