Diane Yap: Critical Rice Theory
KEY MOMENTS
0:00 – Intro: Diane Yap, the soy sauce supremacist
2:37 – Is flying with a toddler a selfish choice?
5:26 – Parents who give up on calming their kids
8:53 – Easy babies and flying alone at age six
12:35 – Is San Francisco really a hellscape?
16:29 – Toxic empathy for violent addicts
20:49 – Who deserves our empathy?
24:19 – The rebuttals: education and black maternal health
27:50 – How data gets used selectively
31:08 – Targeting the elderly and the rooftop Koreans
34:38 – Latino gangs and Los Angeles neighborhoods
37:12 – Is "Asian" a meaningful category?
41:12 – Summers with grandparents in Taiwan
43:47 – TSMC and chip manufacturing in America
46:49 – Lou's new rice cooker
50:19 – Harvard waitlists and admissions
53:12 – No snacks: eat what's served
57:15 – Writing for Pirate Wires
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Critical Rice Theorist and Soy Sauce Supremacist Diane Yap joins Lou to talk about who is really attacking Asian Americans, toxic empathy for violent addicts, and whether San Francisco is really a hellscape. Imagine The Joy Luck Club meets Death Wish.
We also get into whether flying with a toddler is a selfish choice, who deserves our empathy, how data gets used selectively, targeting the elderly and the rooftop Koreans, Latino gangs in Los Angeles, whether "Asian" is a meaningful category, summers with grandparents in Taiwan, TSMC and chip manufacturing in America, Lou's new rice cooker, Harvard waitlists, and writing for Pirate Wires.