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seoulshock
Joined: 12 Jul 2005
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 Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 2:49 pm Post subject: Bay Area TV Station Pranked By Racist Fake Asiana Pilot Name |
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http://iamkoream.com/bay-area-tv-station-pranked-by-racist-fake-asiana-pilot-names/
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| Despite the real names of the pilots being readily available to the media, the newscaster rattled off the list of pilots names as “Captain Sum Ting Wong,” “Wi Tu Lo,” “Ho Lee Fuk,” and “Bang Ding Ow.” |
...and this coming from a station in the bay area. |
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transmogrifier
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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Is it really racist?
Whatever the answer, it's pretty funny, and an indication of how terrible news reporting is these days all over the world (see also: Korea) |
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T-J
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae
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| Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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Video of newscast here:
http://youtu.be/7tetB3oHbMk
Can't believe the anchor got through reading the names without a light going off.
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The Cosmic Hum
Joined: 09 May 2003
Location: Sonic Space
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| Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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| T-J wrote: |
Video of newscast here:
http://youtu.be/7tetB3oHbMk
Can't believe the anchor got through reading the names without a light going off.
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Perhaps the lights were on, but obviously nobody was home. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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| transmogrifier wrote: |
| Is it really racist? |
Yes, it is racist. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Racist and disrespectful to the dead. Even racists and frat boys should frown on this. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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| transmogrifier wrote: |
Is it really racist?
Whatever the answer, it's pretty funny, and an indication of how terrible news reporting is these days all over the world (see also: Korea) |
I will agree with ya on the last point - it's sad that something like this so easily slipped past these professionals. |
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everything-is-everything
Joined: 06 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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| jvalmer wrote: |
| transmogrifier wrote: |
| Is it really racist? |
Yes, it is racist. |
Only to weak minded people with no sense of humor. |
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aq8knyus
Joined: 28 Jul 2010
Location: London
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thebearofbundang
Joined: 02 Sep 2012
Location: Bundang
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| Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 1:20 am Post subject: |
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Terrible.. Someone should, and likely will, lose their job for this.. It is racist
and disrespectful to the 3 people who died in the crash. |
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optik404
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 2:36 am Post subject: |
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Why do some of ya'll feel the need to defend this station by posting about Korea?
Obviously, the fact-checker screwed up or maybe they just wanted to get fired. I doubt it was intentional. |
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aq8knyus
Joined: 28 Jul 2010
Location: London
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| Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 6:05 am Post subject: |
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Why do some of ya'll feel the need to defend this station by posting about Korea?
Obviously, the fact-checker screwed up or maybe they just wanted to get fired. I doubt it was intentional. |
Because it gives you a glimpse of real of racism, as opposed to just some high school level high jinx.
The sort of racism that so innate and normalized that it comes out without censure or awareness. Compared to some low brow rubbish making fun of Chinese names. |
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transmogrifier
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 7:51 am Post subject: |
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| jvalmer wrote: |
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| Is it really racist? |
Yes, it is racist. |
Is it racist to use the characteristics of a culturally derived naming system to create words in a totally different language that comments (in a tasteless way) about a specific event?
I'm not sure it is. |
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Nolos
Joined: 23 Oct 2011
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| Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 8:25 am Post subject: |
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Koreans use racist ads about white men with big noses, so what's good for goose. . .
I thought this news clip was hilarious by the way.
And how is it racist making fun of the way the Chinese language sounds?
What color race is Chinese Language? Idiot. Everyone cries racism and they doesn't even know what it means.
We must come up with a new "ist" word for poking fun at different languages. Languagists? Are you a languagist? So stupid. |
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aq8knyus
Joined: 28 Jul 2010
Location: London
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| Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 9:14 am Post subject: |
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What irks me is that the Korean press are always quick to shout racism when it is something that they perceive as offensive, yet they themselves are one of the worst offenders.
As anyone who has ever read a Korean news article about English teachers can attest, they regularly show racist cartoons about white people. The big nosed white man being a popular one, along with the Der Stuermer-esque cartoons of demonic foreign teachers preying upon Korean school children. |
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