>Asian paper’s ‘I Hate Blacks’ column assailed (San Francisco Chronicle)
(Via AAJA)
Kenneth Eng is so batshit crazy I have a hard time believing he’s not a created character. In addition to black people, the 22-year-old “Asian Supremacist” hates religion, logic and, apparently, brevity. He also hates that white people hate Asians, but, lest they get off easy, it turns out he hates Asians, too.

(Take special note of Eng’s questionable command of standardized writing test structure in that last column: “The first thing I hate about Asians … The second thing I hate about Asians … The third thing I hate about Asians.” His focus, support and conventions are adequate, but his poor organization has “below grade level” written all over it. I give it a 2 out of 6.)

Sadly, given the flap over his latest column, I fear I’ll never learn his informed views on half-Asians like me. I get the feeling we might not get along, as I’m totally acting white right now. I’ve been affecting an English accent and sporting a monocle all morning, in fact.

As for what he thinks of himself, I suspect his frequent use of “God” as a title is a telling clue. And as for whether you should consider reading his book Dragons: Lexicon Triumvirate, currently the 1,096,415th best-seller on Amazon, consider this excerpt from the description before you reach the obvious conclusion that, hell yes, you should read it:

“Under the auspices of the hominids, dragon king Drekkenoth has attempted to use knowledge to corrupt the minds of all the dragons in his kingdom but is stymied by the existence of a single source of uncorrupt knowledge: a tome of omniscience known as the Lexicon. Dennagon, a lowly dragon sentry, takes it upon himself to discover this lexicon, an act that leads to his expulsion from the mainstream world of worms and humans and the creation of a band of dissident dragons who wage war on the corruption of Drekkenoth and his human masters. During his seemingly endless quest to find the Lexicon, battles with cyborg technodragons and bewildering encounters with the enigmatic forces of time provide Dennagon with insight into the ephemerality of omniscience and the instability of the temporal as he discovers that there is more to life than the lore he has so desperately been searching for.”

Clearly, nothing says must-read like a “seemingly endless quest.” What sold me, however, were the cyborg technodragons.

(See also: AsianWeek takes the racist cake)