Boulder, Colorado -

Two Boulder middle-school students have been arrested on suspicion of harassment and a bias-motivated crime after police said they called a 12-year-old girl and threatened to rape and kill her because she’s Asian-American.

The 13-year-old boys — and a 10-year-old boy, whose arrest was pending — are suspected of calling the girl’s cell phone at 9 p.m. Monday and using explicit and violent language to describe raping her.

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Boulder also happens to be my hometown, which claims to be the most liberal place in Colorado but has consistently been in national people of color news for hate crimes including an incident where an Asian American student was held at knifepoint and forced to say "I love America" and another incident with a university publication article calling for a "war on Asians" and "hunt."

How is the "most liberal" town in Colorado the site of the majority of the state's high-profile hate crimes? political liberalism ≠ anti-racism

In response to our outcry against the CU Boulder column, The Blaaag and the AAA listserv received a very warm email from a certain Chris Dahmen. The letter is printed below for your reading pleasure, spelling/grammatical errors, ignorance, hate and all.

I am a student at the University of Minnesota. I want to say that the criticism of Asian culture that Max Karson articulated is entirely valid from my personal experience, things I've read, and things I've heard from others. I have lived in Hawaii for 5 years which is 80 percent Asian. I have also lived in China for three months and Taiwan for seven months and I am almost fluent in Mandarin Chinese. Studying at the University of Hawaii taught me many valuable lessons about multiculturalism and diversity; especially Asian diversity, namely, it doesn't work. In case you like most Americans are too small minded to know even the first thing about non-western culture or their ideology, let me tell you that we are the only one's in the world who really believe in Multi-culturalism. No-one else really does. In fact, it's a stereotype in Asia that Westerners are naieve and too open. I know personally that Asians do not respect Western civ. traditions, culture, or ethic. They come here for self interest and stay for identity politics, not because they love our culture so much. I find it hilarious that so many Americans see Asians display a superficial showing of politeness that is paper thin and they believe unequivocally that Asian culture is equal to Western civilization. Furthermore, they have no tradition of debate in their culture. This fact I believe is the central reason why they have not achieved a more progressive society like we have and continue to have which is a unique expression of our culture that has nothing to do with Asians. Lastly, Asians are more racist than anyone I have ever seen or heard of in the entire world during any time period, and that includes whites. Whites wake up and smell the coffee before its too late.

For those who don't remember, Max Karson at the University of Colorado at Boulder wrote an opinion piece recently, "satirically" calling for a war against Asians, based on an encounter with an Asian student.

Sign the petition against his hate speech here.

As addressed by NAASCon and AAM, the other CU -- not Columbia but Colorado -- bred outrage three days ago when it published the highly controversial op-ed, "If it's war the Asians want... it's war they'll get". The piece's author, Max Karson, narrates an encounter with an Asian individual ("The Asian") and the realization that the individual showed "hate. Pure hate" towards Karson, a victim of being lumped together with "whitebread, brainless tree sloths".

Karson's resolution to his epiphany ("They hate us all") is 'simple':

It's time for war.
But we won't attack their bodies or minds. We will attack their souls.
The hunt will then begin.

(Read the complete version here)

So remember when I said that David and I love parody?

Well, we do, and this one isn't funny.

If you would like to send in opinions on this, please e-mail theblaaag@gmail.com.

Also read about Max Karson's troubled history here.