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Jackie Chan Is A Know-Nothing Self-Loathing Racist.

By Dan Harris and Steve Dickinson

The title sums up my initial reaction to the news of Jackie Chan dissing the Chinese people by essentially saying they are too messed up to ever be able to handle democracy. I was going to write a blog post criticizing Chan for his comments and noting how the same thing has been said about other countries that are now democracies (the United States, Japan, West Germany, Italy, Spain and South Korea immediately come to mind). Then I decided I am not the right person to write such a post, so I didn't. But today, over at The Useless Tree, I saw the post I would have written, if I were a thoughtful college professor of Chinese politics and decided to simply incorporate it as though I had written it myself. The post is entitled, "Jackie Chan does the Orientalist thing," and if you want to know why Jackie Chan should pretty much be ignored when it comes to world politics (just as anyone with any brains ignores Sean Penn, Woody Harrelson, and the various other Hollywood types when they talk about politics as though their simply being famous gives them a clue), you absolutely should read it.

Full post as published by China Law Blog on April 19, 2009 (boomark / email).