Christina Ignatius posted racist comments about Asians in Orange County, Calif. and she's surprised at the reaction. Talk about being so privileged that she could not understand that what she wrote might be offensive.
"My friend said that there is something coming out called Crazy Rich Asians. It reminds me of all the Asians who flooded into Orange County and then took over our mall at South Coast Plaza," Ignatius wrote.
Ignatius said she "didn't have any intent of anger and hatred," when she posted the controversial comments so she isn't deserving of the resulting flack.
"If you have no malintent, you didn't do anything wrong," she told the paper. She said the post was "meant as a joke" for her Facebook friends, according to the Register.
Hmm, not even a hint of remorse or an apology.
In the now-deleted post, she continue talking about Asians: “They will drive in their Mercedes in the carpool lane and then cut across 5 lanes to get over to the mall, as if your car right next to them didn’t even matter. That’s why we have the term “‘driving like an Asian.’”
She went on to call Asians "rice rockets," who "flooded" the University of California-Irving, which she also attended.
One of the responses came from Susan Kang Schroeder, the Korean-born chief of staff for Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas. She wrote a Facebook post of her own, denouncing Ignatius' post, according to the Register.
“I am saddened by your racist, insensitive and simply unacceptable post,” she wrote. “It’s hard to imagine that an attorney in Orange County would make such an ignorant post in 2018.”
Orange County is home to the third largest Asian American & Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AA&NHPI) community in the United States comprising 21 percent of its 3-million residents, according to recent reports.
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