Asians Behaving Badly: Jason Li, Vancouver Hockey Fan Rioter

By Ernie | Thursday, June 16, 2011 | 20 Comments

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angry asian hockey player Asians Behaving Badly: Jason Li, Vancouver Hockey Fan Rioter

Dear Jason Li:

By the way, I can call you Jason, right? I mean, your name is all over the internet now. Good!

You know, I feel for you. I really do. Your hockey team, the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup in the seventh game to the Boston Bruins, a team that hasn’t won a hockey title in 39 years. And as a brief resident of your fair city a couple of years ago, I was charmed by your delightful combination of trees, wacky two dollar coins, kinda-similar-but-not-really radio stations and, of course, those influx of Asians from the immigrant wave in the late 1990s. If nothing else, I’m happy to see that you, as well as other Asian-Canadians, are acclimating into the civic fabric of Downtown Vancouver.

BY TEARING SHIT UP.

I’m all for getting all Wolverine ragey; release of anger is good! And the rage-face with the giant hockey stick in front of the panels of broken glass make it seem like the Canuck’s loss (combined with the B- you got in Organic Chemistry) was your Taxi Driver moment. It matches the belt, so I’m okay with that, really!

But if you’re going to pose for Associated Press photographers who have worldwide distribution to news centers all over the world, you may want to give a quick heads-up Skype call to your aunt in Hong Kong to tell her that you’re not a homicidal maniac; there’s just simply this thing in Canada called hockey, and that you were “just posing.” (I wouldn’t tell her about that B- though; that may cause some broken glass and rage face of her own.)

See you at the Richmond Night Market,
- Your friends at 8Asians

(Hat tip: AsiansOnYouTube)

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20 Comments to “Asians Behaving Badly: Jason Li, Vancouver Hockey Fan Rioter”

AsianOnYouTube wrote:

That’s what you get for eliminating the SHARKS!!! FCK the CANUCKS!!!

Posted on 16-Jun-11 at 10:48 am | Permalink
mwei wrote:

how do you know the guy isn’t just some “cultural tourist” dressing up in Canadian garbs and participating in Canadian pastimes?

Posted on 16-Jun-11 at 11:01 am | Permalink
BenDeVries wrote:

Better luck tomorrow.

Posted on 16-Jun-11 at 12:44 pm | Permalink
mwei wrote:

looks like it’s already going to be a meme. my contribution:

http://memegenerator.net/instance/8263998

Posted on 16-Jun-11 at 2:24 pm | Permalink
Ernie H. wrote:

@mwei If you insist: http://memegenerator.net/instance/8264257

Posted on 16-Jun-11 at 2:39 pm | Permalink
A_Lee wrote:

In Boston, the police were out in force, with barricades, horses, and dogs. ready to crack heads. No riots here. But then again, Bruins won. ^_^

(Actually, I don’t care about hockey, at all…and I despise the bandwagon-jumpers. Boo. Real sports fans are required to suffer before their allowed to celebrate championships.)

Posted on 16-Jun-11 at 2:47 pm | Permalink
mwei wrote:

@A_Lee but this is the Canadia mounties here. they’d go “please put down that hockey stick,eh ” and afterwards “thanks for not being a hoser, eh”

whereas in Boston, the police is like “hands on the ground before I cap your black Harvard professor ass”

Posted on 16-Jun-11 at 5:34 pm | Permalink
mwei wrote:

@Ernie H. http://memegenerator.net/instance/8266458

Posted on 16-Jun-11 at 5:35 pm | Permalink
VanCityNights wrote:

Boston still sucks. Both their team and city. But most of us in Vancouver are ashamed of the rioters. It happened in the 1994 Stanley Cup playoffs too.

Posted on 16-Jun-11 at 6:04 pm | Permalink
Ernie H. wrote:

@mwei http://memegenerator.net/instance/8272037

And because I’m a perfectionist, my previous meme edited for brevity:

http://memegenerator.net/instance/8271985

Posted on 17-Jun-11 at 2:24 am | Permalink
JeffreyMcManus wrote:

@Ernie H. : Looks like this guy was identified, arrested, and kicked out of school:

http://blog.deliciousjuice.com/2011/06/16/only-human/

Posted on 17-Jun-11 at 8:50 am | Permalink
mwei wrote:

@JeffreyMcManus @Ernie H. man, Asians are such overachievers – taking time off from rioting to post on facebook? lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONMxKAwSFWw&feature=youtu.be&t=51s

Posted on 17-Jun-11 at 9:36 am | Permalink
mwei wrote:

@Ernie H.

http://memegenerator.net/instance/8268645

http://memegenerator.net/instance/8276548

Posted on 17-Jun-11 at 9:37 am | Permalink
A_Lee wrote:

@mwei Yup, the police here don’t tolerate much. They have lots of practice shutting down sports riots.

If you’re talking about Professor Gates-gate…well, one argument between us is enough, so I’ll just say that even in ultra-liberal Cambridge, most people supported the cops and thought they behaved professionally, and leave it at that. A better example to be outraged about would be when the police fired a pepper-spray shotgun round at a young woman in a sports riot, killing her when it went through her eye into her brain.

Posted on 17-Jun-11 at 10:04 am | Permalink
mwei wrote:

@A_Lee @mwei aren’t the cops suppose to practice shooting and macing themselves first?

Posted on 17-Jun-11 at 10:13 am | Permalink
brandontan wrote:

Is it a norm for hockey fans to start rioting once their team loses? I don’t see this happening with basketball.. No riots down in Miami.. Don’t really get the point of tearing your own city apart after a team loses.

Posted on 20-Jun-11 at 7:59 pm | Permalink
Ernie H. wrote:

@brandontan Umm. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMbi0pJYB0A

Posted on 20-Jun-11 at 8:49 pm | Permalink
brandontan wrote:

@Ernie H. lol my b, wasn’t aware of that. it’s not something that happens all the time tho right? besides, they won! smh

Posted on 20-Jun-11 at 8:52 pm | Permalink
Elliott wrote:

Richmond night market for the win.

Posted on 21-Jun-11 at 11:37 pm | Permalink
ianynso wrote:

what does this have to do with him being asian?

Posted on 19-Jul-11 at 7:18 am | Permalink

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