Macaca, it got Googled and cross-referenced against Allen's biography, and as it turns out, if you take a few steps, it fits the profile of Afro-racism. But, it was complicated, a twisting path.
Asian Racism. It fits that profile like a glove.
How does Asian racism work?
Well, a racist will have no greater fun than insulting an Asian. It's a creative endeavor. Unscripted, improvisation to make the even the surliest Grand Wizard giggle. They make up the names you see. They make them up on the spot.
How do you make it good? Well, a lot of vowels help, rhyming sometimes, but Staccato hard consonants work best to break up the long drawn A' and U's. Also, if you can make it sound like an animal or something demeaning or city in Asia you get bonus points for the reference.
Macaca: this was a zinger. It kind've sounds like a name, but has that little "shit" reference inside.
How did George Allen come up with this on the spot? Well, it takes years of racism, mockery, and diligent practice to come up with Asian Racial Slurs that stick. I don't pretend to know how much work George Felix Allen has put into his craft. Or the methods used to hone them to the brilliant rhetorical edge that we all see on youtube.
But you know what hurts more than the name? More than the belittling burst of childish syllables? It's the second part. It rarely gets missed, like Martin and Lewis, they are much funnier together.
"Welcome to America"
That's the heart of it you see. Asian's aren't Americans. I doesn't matter that S.R. Siddarth was born in Virginia. What matters is that when George Allen looks, when Republicans look at Asians, they don't see Americans. No matter how many baseball games you've been to or slices of apple pie you've eaten, you're not an American. You're just a visitor in the Great vanilla landscape of the Republican Party.
Don't try and make George Allen's Racism fit into an African American mold. It's too complicated, use Occam's razor.
It was Asian racism, in its most common form.
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