Asians Died... Perfect Chance to Make Fun of Their Silly Asian Names!

[harumi]

KTVU Reports Asiana Air Pilots Were “Sum Ting Wong” and “Ho Lee Fuk”Bay Area news station KTVU just reported that the pilots of Asiana's disastrous flight 214 were the crack team of "Sum Ting Wong," "Wi Tu Lo," "Ho Lee Fuk," and "Bang Ding Ow

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[amyura]

I was wondering when this was going to turn up here. I was appalled. And the number of people saying that it wasn't racist because, like, the Car Talk guys credit their lawyers "Dewey, Cheetum, and Howe," that that's totes the same thing.

People fucking DIED and they thought racist jokes were okay?

[wrestlingdog]

Did people actually say that? D:

[amyura]

On Salon of all places. It may be a liberal site, but it gets a lot of right-wing trolls in the comments.

[amyura]

Salon no longer lets you link directly to single comments, but if you scroll down to "BillyFLA" (if it's Florida that would make sense at least), he brings up car talk. And then someone calls me an uber left douchebag, which coming from them I take as a compliment.

Edited to add the link, because I'm too dumb to remember to include it to begin with:
http://www.salon.com/2013/07/12/ktvu_misreports_asiana_pilot_names_as_sum_ting_wong_and_ho_lee_fuk/

[maenads_dance]

Not to mention that the Car Talk jokes aren't racist...

[skellington1]

WTF? A) They're fictitious, B) they aren't racially loaded, and C) none of these fictitious people are tragically dead.

That needs more than the usual 'holy false equivalence, bat man."