Daily Comment
The Humorless Bullying of Jesse Watters
By Jiayang Fan
His recent segment on Fox News was so flagrantly racist that if you were a Chinese immigrant you began to wonder if prejudice had somehow become infectious.
His recent segment on Fox News was so flagrantly racist that if you were a Chinese immigrant you began to wonder if prejudice had somehow become infectious.
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