Uptown Artist – Chloe Michelle Fischbach

mattg

Great stuff, can’t wait to see where this goes!

Eileen

I LOVE HER! She has no idea how incredible she truly is…keepum coming, Chloe!

AyDios

Unbelievable. Are we really lauding this level of minstrelsy? This woman’s claim to fame comes from a youtube video where she mocks the mannerisms and speech patterns of poor women of color in her neighborhood. The amount of classism, prejudice, and misogyny in her performance is off the charts. And she describes herself as an “artist”? Vilifying women with non-standard names, women with accents, immigrant women and women from poor backgrounds–this is funny? To whom? What kind of level of self-hatred do you need to have to find this outright exploitation laughable? A White woman making fun of poor Hispanic women? Really? What type of mindset do you need to have to feel comfortable mocking your fellow women, women who live in your neighborhood and who may share your own background, women whose immigrant background and socioeconomic status have molded their speech patterns, their mannerisms, their experience of the world? You have to be careful about these things. Do you really want people to log on to this site and see you celebrating a white woman who made a name for herself mocking poor Hispanic women in your neighborhood? Is this what this site is about? Is that something you’re comfortable with? Is it okay because these women are seen as poor and unsophisticated?

TonyCreative

AyDios and LED, you both have valid points.

AyDios – I can relate to your feelings of discomfort viewing this video, as did I. No one likes to see the very thing they take pride in (in this case, nationality) to be mocked, or made fun of. You see, to view a video like this, you have to have an objective view of the subject matter. I’m Puerto Rican by descent, yet I have tons of Dominican friends (and some of them are females with weird names and thick accents) from the Heights and I didn’t feel too comfortable with this Chloe’s humor. Not saying she had racist intentions or trying to put people down, just wasn’t finding it L-O-L’able.

LED – Freedom of speech. Gotta expect people to point the finger at the top dog when the thing, blog, company, they are in charge of causes controversy. I don’t think she was attacking you personally, just questioning where you stood.

ArtForStrangers

I for one found her impersonation spot on, hilarious, and completely harmless.

Ironically, you know who is holding back women of color? And women? And anyone of color? Of any color? All colors? All genders? And every other class of human being the human mind can invent?

The people who make their superficial karmic living chasing offensive ambulances to take every opportunity to remind these “victims” how victimized they should be. I couldn’t imagine a more effective way to keep someone down than constantly reminding them of why they should be down.

And you know who really embarrasses the kind of women Chloé was impersonating? The actual women that Chloé was impersonating. Chloé wasn’t inventing that accent, or mannerisms. In fact, to be honest, she left a lot out, like naming their kids Hennessey and Gucci, and flashing their gold plated bling and bootleg Chanel bags they bought with cash that came from illegally traded food stamps and the money Grandma put in the Xmas cards for school supplies and overpriced sneakers.

So, did I just villify poor women of color, or did I just describe my upstairs neighbor whose grandmother complained to me cuz she knows she took the Xmas money for herself?

Hagame el favor, guys, quit the victimhood. It’s all in good fun, coño. This isn’t self-hatred. This is being able to laugh at ourselves. Also, being able to laugh at others. (not with them. At them. And that’s ok, cuz some people are totally asking to be made fun of).

Anyway, the only reason any of these people are inferior is because they aren’t Cuban.

Anyway, I’m off to work on my new impersonation of a republican vegetarian folk-song singing come-mierda football jock lesbian wheelchair bound blind ninja pendejo with a lisp and a limping dog that says the word ‘cock’ and ‘vaggie sandwhich’ a lot for some inexplicable reason and keeps trying to build the perfect flotilla to float back to Cuba and then Palestine because he is a self-hating jew with a discount card for Barnes & Noble that she can’t use because Barnes & Noble closed down the mom & pop bookstore he never visited anyway but it’s fun to be offended and let others know about it online.

I just can’t get the hand gestures juuust right.