“Entertainment Weekly contributor writes: ‘Movie called ‘Orient Express’ — and I don’t see any Asian people on here’”

“Entertainment Weekly contributor writes: ‘Movie called ‘Orient Express’ — and I don’t see any Asian people on here’”

 

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A poster for the old “Orient Express”  (Wikimedia Commons public domain)

 

Oi veh.

 

And, once again, with emphasis:  Oi veh!

 

Does this person have even the faintest idea what the Oriental Express was?

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/05/03/entertainment-weekly-contributor-writes-movie-called-orient-express-and-i-dont-see-any-asian-people-on-here/?utm_term=.1fdc6bf6f94c

 

I’m writing from what was, until quite recently, often labeled an “oriental” town.  And yet, apart from a passel of Korean nuns who are fellow guests at our hotel, there are essentially no East Asians here.

 

Posted from Jericho, Palestine

 

 


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