Would the real Quang show his thang?
by Ken Weeks 
{ May 13th 2006 at 4:45PM }
E3 may be over, but the Joystiq team is still blowing through posts and tying up loose ends from a wild, sleepless week of non-stop blogging. When I posted about Blake Snow getting trampled in Friday's early morning Wii stampiid, I thought the man whose badge Blake "traded" for in the ensuing chaos might step forward. Instead the post provoked a flurry of "I am Spartacus" commenters claiming to be one Quang Nguyen. Fortunately, Joystiq reader Sepll Cehck has tracked down a guy on the web who looks like he really could be the Quangster (pictured at right). The Quang man is welcome to have his exhibitor badge back assuming he's the right Nguyen, although it won't do him much good now. I'm waiting for an email. In the mean time, if a small Asian man approaches you claiming to be Blake Snow of Joystiq, don't believe him.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
The ZeroCorpse @ May 13th 2006 4:48PM
So he can't possibly be a LARGE Asian man?
Just wondering.
Jonathan @ May 13th 2006 4:50PM
No, I don't think so.
wii man @ May 13th 2006 4:54PM
more pics of girls at the show and less of nerd guys.
if i find i chick that plays vids and is willing to compromise a lot. SHES mine!
Richard Pey @ May 13th 2006 7:56PM
YOU DAMM RACIST! I WAS A DAILY READER OF JOYSTIQ BUT NOW AFTER SEEING THAT REMARK YOU MADE I WILL GO ELSEWHERE TO GET MY INFORMATION.I HOPE THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE FEELS ASHAME OF HIMSELF FOR WRITING A ARTICLE WITH RACIST TERMS. BY THE WAY COVERAGE OF E3 HERE WAS PATHETIC AND ANY OTHER GAMING INFORMATION HERE SUCKS!
SuperDrew @ May 13th 2006 8:00PM
Richard Pey - what are you trying to accomplish here?
Although he has a point. Quang Nguyen is a fairly popular name...
Richard Pey @ May 13th 2006 8:10PM
Im trying to prove that the author or the whole site doesnt give a crap ass about little remarks that some people might take very offensively leading others to belive that RACISM is right.
Raymond @ May 13th 2006 8:32PM
Richard, you are stupid. On average, people of asian decent are shorter than people of European decent. Ken Weeks is a very european sounding name. Size is relative, and as such, to Ken, asians probably seem small. Probably to you too. This is not racism. This is truth.
Nathaniel C @ May 13th 2006 8:36PM
it IS truth, but that doesn't mean its fair to say "small asian man," you could have just said "asian man." not that i care that much, even though im chinese, cause i know its true, but still, it might offend some people and it shouldn't have been said.
Raymond @ May 13th 2006 8:45PM
True, or just, man. Why does everything have to be about race.
"In the mean time, if a man approaches you claiming to be Blake Snow of Joystiq, don't believe him." Thats effective. Why does race have to be dragged into everything?
DownloadingData @ May 13th 2006 8:50PM
dude, it's a joke topic/post/blog. w/e
Richard Pey @ May 13th 2006 8:53PM
Im not asian Im Egyptian/Caucasian/Puerto Rican by the way. Raymond, I use to be a substitue teacher in the Bay Area and Asians there are fairly tall especially the Cambodians decent but I found out that asians born in their native country grows up to be fairly short but Asians born here in America grows up to be fairly tall. Im not all offended by the remark but it promotes it as it is okay to say it. Ex. All Caucasian people are Rednecks or all Middle Easteners are Terroist. It is not right. And how would Ken knows if he short or not he could be as Tall as Yao Ming but considering that he's asian they compare his height to a midgit.
keke cola @ May 13th 2006 9:10PM
Wait... how does this have anything to do with racism? If he were to say, for exampla, "an asian man with a moustache", would that mean that he's racially stereotyping asians as having moustaches?
He enumerated two things - asian and small - with no indication whatsoever of them being intrinsically related in any way. People are freaking over-sensitive. Chill the hell out.
SLy @ May 13th 2006 9:40PM
It would be wrong for me to call you fat without ever meeting you just because I know you're an american. Offensive?, arguably not but best not to mention it.
Jesse @ May 13th 2006 9:47PM
Dang, Richie Pey, you need to calm the hell down. They have a picture of the kid, for crying out loud. Guess what? He don't look like frieking Yao Ming. He looks small! Calling someone a racist is a pretty loaded term, and you do a disservice to everyone who has actually experienced racism by applying it to so petty an offense. Grow up.
jV @ May 13th 2006 10:42PM
I'm asian. They said "small asian man." Who cares? If that offended you, please try to get out more.
Anyway, yes. Quang Nyugen is a pretty common Viet name.
Ken @ May 13th 2006 11:08PM
I said "small asian man" because the the Quang in the pic was an amusing (too me anyway) contrast to the real Blake Snow, who is a 6' plus blond-haired Mormon guy from Utah. Too much of an inside joke I guess. I know there are plenty of large (and small) Asian men who could easily kick my ass. No offense intended.
IDK LOL @ May 13th 2006 11:19PM
" If that offended you, please try to get out more," especially if you're white or black, into Asian neighborhoods. Once you're there, walk around asking if anyone's seen "a small asian man named Nugganuey? Nuggen? Negwen? Whatever, all ya'll's got the same name, you seen him?"
Even if you weren't offended, was this post even funny? What was the point? The original was amusing, but this was just dumb.
"Too much of an inside joke I guess."
Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot that I don't hang out with the Joystiq bloggers all the time. Whoops! I'm going to use racial stereotypes (Vietnamese people can't be 6' tall!) to describe someone I don't know or haven't met, snark snark snark.
Or how about this, maybe this is easier for you to understand, Mr. Stereotypical Videogamer Geek: lolzwtfbbq l2blog nub!!11!!!eleventy!!
Weymaster @ May 14th 2006 1:51AM
It is racist and it sucks that is not being taken out by the admins. There are millions of jokes that can be made without racial references, can't you guys think of one?
Richard Pey @ May 14th 2006 3:22AM
Am I wrong for caring even when its not my best intrest?
Peter @ May 14th 2006 5:13AM
Guess what? I'm asian and when I read it I didn't get offended, so why should you. It was just based on observation, the average hieght for a Vietnamese person, which Quang is, since it is a Vietnamese name is a lot shorter than the average hieght for a white guy, so he just came to the conclusion that this guy must be smaller. You just have to face the facts, asians are small people.
Lekko @ May 14th 2006 5:56AM
I am Spartacus
x23 @ May 14th 2006 11:39AM
sticks and stones...
seriously people... did you miss that day of preschool?
the author didn't say 'hey everyone! let go curb some chinamen. no i'm serious. let's go kill some actual real life asians. kill them until they are dead. in real life. the asians.' ... cause THAT would be racist. as it is an actual *action* against a *race*.
saying 'small asian man' ... yyyeah. not so much. not racist.
i can't remember the last time i cared if someone said 'honkey' or 'whitey' or 'whitebread' or 'white trash' or any of the various negative america-in-general sayings. if someone said 'hey! [lets go do something violent to] whitey!!!' ... then i would care. someone *saying* 'hey whitey!!!' ... don't care.
[i know you are all itching to bust out your 'but whitey never had nothing bad happen!' arguements... but really. save it.]
see the difference between action and word? the word in this case isn't even inciting any action. nor is it a particularly charged collection of letters. 'small asian man' ... yeah. pretty benign.
it's almost more "racist" seeing every little thing as racist.
i'd rather live in a place where no one *cared* that a certain chunk of letters was supposed to be 'offensive' or 'racist'... than the one where everyone tip-toes around an ever-changing and ever-growing collection of "words-you-can't-use". cause guess what? in the former... the words NO LONGER WOULD BE OFFENSIVE. get it? if no one cared eventually they would never be used. cause they don't get the 'charge' out of anyone. and if they were used... like i said... no one cares. but no... we have to remind everyone non-stop about how this is supposed to offend or that is supposed to offend... and if you don't agree... well then! you must be a racist too!
freaking pointless trying to explain it all... but oh yeah... once again... it's already been broken down into a convenient format for you all. it starts like this :
stick and stones...
LONG LONG WONG @ May 14th 2006 11:44PM
GOT RICE, GOT RICE, GOT RICE BITCH?
Quang @ May 15th 2006 4:53AM
YOU WILL NEVER HAVE YOUR BADGE BACK. actually my last name is tran not nguyen but my cousins last name is, nguyen is like the last name Smith, a bunch of ppl have it. and viet ppl are usually short. im not but im half latino. Richard Pey should STFU your not even asian.
Erick @ May 15th 2006 3:07PM
Sorry... the Quang you have pictured was not at E3 and I would appreciate it if you take his picture down. He's a friend of mine and an accusation of him taking someone else's badge is not something he would want floating around on the Internet.
Sean D. @ May 15th 2006 5:07PM
I don't think it's racist, but this certainly is the most childish post ever. Joystiq is certainly loosing focus- and probably quite a few readers.
First of all, you're making fun of the guy's name in the title (a guy who's badge you publicly brag about appropriating off of the showroom floor of E3). Second of all, you've posted a photo of someone you think might have the same name- most likely taken and used without permission and certainly without the permission of the photo's subject. And third, the descriptive of "small" is in this case is just plain condiscending.
What the hell does this have to do with videogame news anyway? Loose the ego and learn from your mistakes- maybe next year you'll make it all the way through the show without dropping your badge and stealing someone else's.