Another White College Kid Rants About Asians: Is Samuel Hendrickson the New Alexandra Wallace?

By jozjozjoz | Wednesday, March 6, 2013 | 13 Comments

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UPDATE 3/9/2013 @ 10am: YouTube removed the original video for being hate speech, so I’ve updated the video embed with a mirror from LiveLeak. Thanks to commenter Aishi Yupi for providing the link.

UPDATE 3/6/2013 @ 9:30pm Pacific Time: It looks like Sam Hendrickson has deleted his Facebook page. When I looked at it a few hours ago, his page was filled with lot of Asians calling him out for his racism and a bunch of white people defending Sam’s video and saying “chill out, it’s just a joke!”

If you’re a white college kid who wants to become famous for making funny videos online, the way to get started is to post a racist video, ranting about what you don’t like about Asians… that is, if you go to the Alexandra Wallace School of Asian American Internet Infamy* (I heard this is where she ended up after leaving UCLA).

Samuel Hendrickson, a ~~University of Southern Indiana~~ Indiana ~~University~~ student, made a four-and-a-half minute video listing out ten reasons he’d “hate to be Asian”:

Most Asians look alike
If he was an Asian man, he’d most likely be with an Asian woman (and he doesn’t find Asian women attractive)
Sweatshops suck.
Smoking pot while Asian makes would make his already-chink eyes close completely
He sucks at math
The only way you can be in show biz if you know kung fu or if you play an Asian mobster
He’d be short.
He hates sushi and it would be “everywhere” if he was Asian. [He throws in a nice use of the word "Oriental" during this segment.]
Asian males don’t have a “good rep.” Schools don’t accept them any more than white males, they’re not known for being good in the bedroom, and are known for having small equipment and wear tighty-whiteys
Asians blur their porn

Evidently, Sam meant for this video to be a joke (according to a comment on YouTube, he says “I know not all asians look alike.. this whole video was a joke.”) and he has uploaded other so-called funny videos with his friends under the 3LetterMafia banner.

Sam also apologized on Facebook (and Twitter), saying:

I would like to really apologize to the entire Asian race and anyone else offended by my video. What I did was a joke but was not taken as one, with that being said, I sincerely am sorry for offending anyone.

Says our anonymous tipster, “this shows us that racism is alive and well today. People like this person are why we must keep fighting for equality.”

My hope is that a good parody or two comes out of this. After all, the parodies were the best things to come out of the whole Alexandra Wallace debacle.

h/t: Anonymous tipster

*This had better not be a real thing.

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zdrav

This mouth-breather is a little too headed-to-nowhere to be truly offensive. From the way that he speaks — not very intelligently — it sounds like he’s destined for a lifetime of thankless hard labour down by the docks until his herniated disk forces him to retire early and vote Republican as a way to get back at all the minorities who stole the opportunities that he never chased after.

But…

I did find him to be surprisingly aware of the negative social stereotypes against Asian men, and how exactly society discriminates against Asian men. A racist rant like this is pretty solid evidence that yes, it is quite difficult to be an Asian men in America and yes, there is rampant discrimination against Asian men in America.
LTE2

“and he doesn’t find Asian women attractive”
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I want all men to feel this way, I hate competition, I even want Asian men to feel this way. Yea, I know it’s a self serving view but I have to go with what works best for me. Sorry. No, I’m not sorry.
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“Alexandra Wallace”
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When it comes to cell phones, I am 100% behind Andrea! For years I have been trying to develop the ability through thought waves to have cell phones melt in the user’s hand as they force me to listen to all their personal business. God, I really hate cell phones.
I suppose if I was a bit more progressive I would say, hate the user, not the cell phone.
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“After all, the parodies were the best things to come out of the whole Alexandra Wallace debacle.”
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The parodies stunk.
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Now, there was a somewhat goofy guy from Vietnam (now living in America) who took another approach, he explained Asian family culture. In a heartfelt manner he explained why Asians do what they do and offered some wonderful insights. Sadly he altered his original video which caused a loss of effectiveness, but that was the best approach to Andrea’s impulsive rant I had seen, I complimented him on his video and approach.
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http://www.facebook.com/people/Cesar-Arredondo/1358413677 Cesar Arredondo

Offensive. Extremely offensive.
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EastAsianNationalist

Shrug. Slightly more offensive than the last girl, which wasn’t really offensive to begin with.
Anon

I’m Asian, and I do find his video offensive. However, if I take the bullet points out of context and disregard his demeanor completely, it’s actually sort of funny and a few of those points (like about acting) actually have some truth.
http://www.jozjozjoz.com jozjozjoz

I appreciate you for sharing the link. I’ve updated the post, thanks to you!
JolieMelodie

You know Im trying to be tolerant of the ignorant because I tell myself that they have not been exposed to other people enough, but when you live in a diverse country and are 20+, and can even use the internet as a resource to educate yourself, you basically have no excuse. If America was homogeneous then I could kind of get the “they all look alike” thing, but that’s not the case. Oh and this is always their defense : it was a joke. When a certain Jenny wrote about why she would never date a certain type of guy she stated it was “a satire” or something soon after the backlash.
Chen

Too bad, because most men find Asian women attractive. May the “competition” begin.
LTE2

Haha.
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I couldn’t resist. I’m retired from the business. Asian women will have to work to preserve their virtue from someone other than I

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