A VIDEO of a couple of women making fun of nail salon workers went viral for all the wrong reasons.
Looks Good Babe, a Facebook page with over 350,000 followers, posted a highly insensitive video yesterday featuring two women mimicking nail salon workers, many of whom are Asian/Americans.
The woman imitating the speech of hard-working, low-wage workers trying to earn a living was speaking gibberish, but they thought it was funny. Some social media users didn't agree:
“So… imagine this was a video of two Asian women doing a (stereotypical) imitation of how Black or Latina women talk and act… the same people laughing now would be up in arms. Am I lying?” one commenter wrote.
Another respondent said, "Switch up the roles and there would be a riot 🤷♀️🤷♀️ I love how racism is okay when it’s convenient for the person at the time.”
“This isn’t funny just saying, it’s disrespectful because those women who do your nails work hard and do the best work. Y’all are childish,” said another.
However, some thought those who were offended were being overly sensitive.
“I’m Asian I still laughed at this, if we can learn to accept to joke around stereotypes we know that are and aren’t true and laugh about it the world would be less butthurt because I trash talk on every race because I know when to joke around with it when I’m getting roasted by my diverse set of friends,” the commenter explained.
One respondent turned the argument around and accused the workers of being rude for speaking their native language:
“I’m Asian I still laughed at this, if we can learn to accept to joke around stereotypes we know that are and aren’t true and laugh about it the world would be less butthurt because I trash talk on every race because I know when to joke around with it when I’m getting roasted by my diverse set of friends,” the commenter explained.
One respondent turned the argument around and accused the workers of being rude for speaking their native language:
“While I appreciate some comments that it is not nice to be satirical, you really do not understand the joke unless you have had your nails done and have experienced some, usually all, of the Asian manicurists rudely talking, sneering and giggling in their own language to one another while they are doing your nails as though you are invisible. Some do not even say ‘hello’. Being black has absolutely nothing to do with it. It is an attack on rude behavior by manicurists, nothing to do with their race,” a netizen said.
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