Jokes that Target Different Races -- Chris Rock at the Oscars

I stumbled across a Vice article that discusses different types of racist jokes, giving examples like Chris Rock at the Oscars. The other night, Rock made a joke where he introduced "accountants" from the firm that tallies the Academy's votes by saying, "They sent us their most dedicated, accurate, and hardworking representatives: Ming Xu, Bao Ling, and David Moskowitz," and then three Asian children walked out. The issue this article tackles is the difference between targeting blacks in a joke versus targeting another racial group. It argues that people find it more offensive to make a racist black joke than to make a racist Asian joke, when in reality, both should be equally offensive.

The biggest problem that Asians face from these jokes isn't the jokes alone -- it's the fact that as a group, Asians are already underrepresented in media. So, when they are only represented through racist jokes, they are consequently invisibilized through symbolic annihilation.