It is racist/xenophobic. You meet someone named "John" do you think "hehehe like the toilet" or "Jack" - "hehe like masturbation"? You don't, because those are normal names.
Turks are a minority in the English-speaking world. Cenk was pressured to pick an American name when he tried getting into media. "Chunk Yogurt" and it's myriad versions is what gets posted on like every Cenk video, along with "fat brown libt*rd" or whatever. The impulse to go after the name is about focusing on the one thing that's other about him. Ben Dixon doesn't get called a Dick-Son on every on of his videos, does he?
Making fun of names can be good fun. But it's a bit like racial slurs/jokes - you need to be in the in-group, you need to be a friend who's known to be cool. Otherwise you look like an asshole participating in ostracism.
I mean, personally, if I'm making fun of someone I do make fun of their first and last names, "normal" or "not normal". So yes if don't like the dude, yes I would think "teehee, jack-off", or "Cuck Schumer".
That's not making fun of the name though. It's not abusing him for the culture that produced the name being different. It's just a rhyme - with a sexual insult thrown in. "Chunk Yogurt" isn't funny - it's just an attack on the name.
if don’t like the dude
Right, if you don't like someone, one of the things you might do is make a joke off their name. But with Cenk, that's what people do immediately every day. It's driven by xenophobia. And it's not clever.
We give loads of people silly names as a way of deriding them. Is it really racist? Chunk Yogurt is just a funny couplet of words.
It is racist/xenophobic. You meet someone named "John" do you think "hehehe like the toilet" or "Jack" - "hehe like masturbation"? You don't, because those are normal names.
Turks are a minority in the English-speaking world. Cenk was pressured to pick an American name when he tried getting into media. "Chunk Yogurt" and it's myriad versions is what gets posted on like every Cenk video, along with "fat brown libt*rd" or whatever. The impulse to go after the name is about focusing on the one thing that's other about him. Ben Dixon doesn't get called a Dick-Son on every on of his videos, does he?
Making fun of names can be good fun. But it's a bit like racial slurs/jokes - you need to be in the in-group, you need to be a friend who's known to be cool. Otherwise you look like an asshole participating in ostracism.
I mean, personally, if I'm making fun of someone I do make fun of their first and last names, "normal" or "not normal". So yes if don't like the dude, yes I would think "teehee, jack-off", or "Cuck Schumer".
That's not making fun of the name though. It's not abusing him for the culture that produced the name being different. It's just a rhyme - with a sexual insult thrown in. "Chunk Yogurt" isn't funny - it's just an attack on the name.
Right, if you don't like someone, one of the things you might do is make a joke off their name. But with Cenk, that's what people do immediately every day. It's driven by xenophobia. And it's not clever.