Tom Cotton vs. Shou Chew: THE DRAMA!

was this line of questioning to the Tik Tock CEO from Senator Tom Cotton way too harsh was it racially fueled let's talk about it yeah let's run the clip you said today as you often say that you live in Singapore of what nation are you a citizen Singapore are you a citizen of any other Nation no Senator have you ever applied for Chinese citizenship Senator I serve my nation in Singapore no I did not do you have a Singaporean passport yes and I served my military for two and a half years in do you have any other do you have any other passports from any other Nation noada your wife is an American citizen your are American citizens have you ever applied for American citizenship not no not yet okay have you ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party sen I'm Singaporean no have you ever been Associated or affiliated with the Chinese Communist party no sen again I'm Singaporean let me ask you some hopefully simple questions oh man I'm telling you this Senate hearing Andrew Mark Zuckerberg was there show Z Chu the CEO of American Tik Tok or just Tik Tok in general obviously it is owned by bite dance which also does doying in China uh man this was some theater yeah no this was an intense exchange and it almost felt like a scene from a movie like a Few Good Men you know when Tom Cruz is in the courtroom with Jack Nicholson you can't handle the truth or what about uh A Time to Kill oh any any crazy courtroom movie but a lot of people were also bringing up that Tom Cotton sounded like uh Joseph McCarthy in 1952 yeah so I guess what basically is going on guys obviously there's this whole Congressional hearing with Mark Zuckerberg and show uh show sorry from Tik Tok and basically they're getting grilled by different sides of the aisle right left it doesn't really matter uh basically a lot of these older politicians are trying to grill these guys right but but they're really doing it for theater because they they cannot like pass the laws themselves it's almost like if you really want to get into it they're trying to score points for reelection or to get uh more donations if you really want to know the truth if you really want to cut to the of it because they're not like the decision makers it's going to have to go through a crazy process so this hearing is not the actual courtroom but it sounds like those guys are the judge and the jury right it sounds like something's going to happen right after this like there's going to be a verdict and then Tik tok's going to have to regulate or Instagram's going to have to regulate or something but I don't think that's how it works so correct me if I'm wrong guys political theater there's no jury and there's no judge that's going to like lay down the law and then all of a sudden these guys get dragged away no so anyways guys uh I think what most people are referring to is that Tom Cotton sounded kind of racist now whether you think his line of questioning was fair because it is fair to question people this is a congressional fair to question shu's loyalties however they were questioning as him as if he was a white American yeah it because it was like if you're Singaporean you are neutral you know what I'm saying like you are politically neutral as a Singaporean like so I'm saying why are they asking him they're like Tom Cotton's like I'm a white man you present as a white man cuz you you know I'm from Ivy League school even though I don't talk like it you're from Avi Le SK uh School show you why don't you pledge loyalty to the team Ango yeah it was it didn't seem like that I was like he's he's a foreigner it's it's uh you know we'll get into it guys there's a lot of comments but anyways we're going to break it down so please hit that like button and check out other episodes of the hot pop boys David hold on people need to check out SM sa.com even though we're sold out right now from sichan assis guys um I'll say this listen the delivery sounded racist okay I am not going to say that Tom Cotton can't ask show Chu because he was the CFO of bite dance for sure there is something like that's a valid line of questioning right right given his history he worked in Beijing for shiai and then he was CFO of bite dance and now he's CEO of Tik Tock which is separate supposedly totally valid for them to question him but then part of me is like yeah of course he's not going to be as anti-china as a white old white guy in America right I was like why would he be but remember he did he did obviously it's not like he didn't say the truth when they asked about tanam and square earlier he said what it was he said it was a massacre yeah he said what it was um I think that yeah the line the questioning itself wasn't racist but man Tom Cotton he might be racist no Tom Cotton said a bunch of stuff I'll just pop it up here and this is like about whether you're talking about the Israel Gaza situation oh talking about slavery he said some stuff that got him in hot water like even his own like other white Republicans were like man this guy Tom is really going crazy right now I I I just think anything anytime Tom Cotton is yelling it might sound racist even it's probably because he is like kind of racist himself so it almost ended up delegitimizing his point where you I think you could argue that he is valid in his line of questioning but he just sounded like he was trying to play a racist in a movie anyway guys we just got to get another comment section somebody said he has no idea where Singapore is how he's probably asking himself how can someone who's not Chinese look like that he's got to be chines someone said listen guys he went to Harvard Law he's not stupid he's just clearly proud of being extremely racist uh do you think that Tom Cotton doesn't care other people said that he plays up being a fake redneck much like uh they Andrew they said George Bush Jr was also a fake redneck to win votes and win money and win power maybe maybe maybe yeah I mean to be honest this is a pretty common tactic in America because a lot of people are emotional about things right it's almost like anybody pretending to be down with a squad where they're not really down with it some people say kamla pretends to be like super down with like black Americans people would say Tom C and Larry the Cable Guy not a real redneck fake for money reasons for marketing reasons but everybody buys it up um what do you think about all these comments people saying uh I'm a Singaporean this is offensive this is racist uh yeah I I don't think in itself in a vacuum it's super racist obviously he's trying to dig and find and have him admit that there's some type of connection between him and higher ups at the Communist Party but I think they uh it's tough I mean I guess singaporeans have always said they're not Chinese and they're not Communists obviously there's no connection like like singap by the way is 75% ethnically Chinese ethnically Chinese they do speak Mandarin that is a little bit confusing for simple well the Chinese singaporeans speak Mandarin not the Chinese singaporeans so I mean Mandarin is like commonly or popular language I want to say it's one of their national language well English is for sure and then after that I'm not sure I think I I believe Mandarin and Malay are the other two right but then ultimately yeah it's not China and it's not even close to China right um somebody said not that I am a fan of cotton but he is correct Tik Tock can claim to be Singaporean uh the CEO can but its parent is B dance which is Chinese which cannot be trusted so a lot of people were basically like yeah I'm not saying that Tom Cotton didn't come a c like a a-hole but I'm just saying I like what he said he being tough on him yo being tough on people like Mark Zuckerberg and showed you it's legit it's legit they were all going hard at him but again what happens now is anything going to change you know what I think if Tom Cotton wanted to go for it he should just said Is it true that when we go to break you and Mark Zuckerberg are going to speak communist Chinese Mandarin to each other because if you guys don't know Zuckerberg is essentially like somewhat fluent in Mandarin he can speak Mandarin yes um I think that he should have just brought that up he should have been like see that's why you're here cuz you speak Mandarin and and show you you speak me and the ring KNE how say it to him KN how yeah that'd be funny what if they were like listen show you I'd like for you to speak to Mark Zuckerberg fully in Chinese go for it just do it no he was like in communist Chinese specifically the Communist dialect with the Communist dialect um what do you think about the McCarthyism Andre a lot of people are accusing him of McCarthyism because it felt like Joseph McCarthy saying people people cuz Tom Cotton kind of has this like old school voice like we said that's from like a ER I think if people want to be mad they should just be like the CEO of the most popular app is not American not that he's Chinese CU he's not from China he's from Singapore which is not China but I think like why why don't they just why don't they just ban all like foreign CEOs from popular apps or something like that like I don't understand if they want to go that far you know what I mean like it just seems like I don't fully understand what he's trying to say cuz it is he was trying to say this like Mark Zuckerberg he's like you know got the Chinese wife speaks Chinese show zuu is Singaporean but obviously his parents I or I think his grandparents are from China like I feel like they're basically like you ain't supporting the Anglo fear enough guys like none none of y'all supporting me and my constituency which is like a very vague way of putting it being like you guys aren't on my team and my team is more patriotic and on the side of these families whose lives are being ruined by social media so you guys are on the other Squad and it's like it is a very unintellectual way of saying it but it's also very emotional and it's probably appealing to their base hey you guys want to know a funny fact David you know who went to Harvard Mark Zuckerberg you know who went to Harvard Business School show Che and you know who also grad graduated from Harvard is Senator Tom Cotton you got three Harvard graduates yelling at each other I think there's a Common Thread it's Harvard yeah I'm not going to lie a lot of people go to Harvard they just be in the mix yeah man be in the mix man I would say Andrew Yang has a pretty funny quote he goes uh yeah uh people from Brown University are just trying to solve and fix the world that all the Harvard graduates messed up cuz Harvard people be they be swinging the hammer around whether you say it's for good or bad um somebody said Senator Tom Cotton did not ask a single question about child Online safety regarding how it is implemented at Tik Tok that's funny yeah uh I would say he did a little bit but not really he talked to Facebook mostly about it or that was Ted Cruz right right right uh Ted Cruz also called Tick Tock Tic Tac Tom crw I mean Ted why I call him Tom Cruz Ted Cruz also cannot be taken seriously in many ways man I don't know this is like it's like not wrong to have this hearing but like it's just like I don't know silly man it's silly because everybody's acting like they're in a movie and they're like Judge Dread or the you know the jury the Executioner and the judge like I'm like you're just a guy at a hearing asking questions but your tone is fiery like a Baptist preacher talking about like hell and brimstone and everything that's what I think it's so ridiculous about it and I think people are like am I watching a movie scene right now mhm um like I said said do I think though that sh Chu is going to say a bunch of things that are against the Chinese government no I don't think so because his parent company is bite dance why would he and I guess I'll tell you this too though no American CEO is going to answer any of those questions that Tom Cotton asked him like I'm saying no American CEO is going to answer those the way Tom Cotton wants them to oh yeah because they all are businessmen right everybody has business considerations in their life and incentives and different people that the markets that they have to answer to shareholders that they have to answer to Boards of directors that they have to answer to so I just don't understand why he's like see you don't hate China like I do show you that means you're bad but but you know like Zoom you know that that app Zoom like that founder is from China too born in China Eric Yen yeah Eric Yen started in America from Sean so why why is like nobody's going to question him like there's so many people you could question technically if you wanted oh you're from China are you part of the communist country are your parents part of the Communist party you know what I mean there's just so many but uh yeah I guess I guess what I'm saying is like man I get it China and America are Rivals but for sure and I'm not saying that there isn't a lot of like uh jostling like two players in the post elbowing each other and stuff going on behind the scenes but to blame all of your problems in your country on a boogeyman it is overdoing it yeah because you're basically trying to say like we're not responsible for anything yeah like we it's like yeah get your kids off Tik Tok I mean that's part of the that's part of the problem hey man if they want to ban Tik Tok it's going to be only better for me and you all right everybody you let us know in the comments down below what do you think was Tom Cotton's questioning uncalled for was it more of his tone I think it was more of his tone and also who he is anyways guys uh let me know in the comments down below and uh until until next time we out peace Mr Chu what country do you hold the passport to uh Singapore Senator and what language do they speak in Singapore English Senator no the other language the Asian one uh Singlish no the Asian Asian one oh uh Mandarin is a widely spoken language in Singapore sir do they speak Mandarin in China uh yes they do so you're Chinese I as I stated before Senator I am from Singapore and I am Singaporean are you a member of the Communist Party of China no I am not senator are you sure you're not affiliate do people use Tik Tok to communicate is there something called the Tik Tok Community yeah yes we do call it a Tik Tok Community when there's a group of creators that they they work together to to create Tik Tok when you're at homing dinner sharing plates of food what is that called family style sir communal style you are a communter Chinese damn it uh I am yeah