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Tych2  4 stars
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Registered: 2005-3-1 06:56:47
Rosaria posted:

Tych2 posted:

Sin_of_Onin posted:

It is not racist as much as openly hostile to China.

This. Its also entertaining, to me at least, that Dae_twat needs to defend China at every little slight.

I absolutely understand where Dae is coming from in this thread but I saw it much differently than he did, which I explained above. In fact I thought it was so funny I sent a copy of the vid to Xinhua.

It's EVERY thread where China is mentioned in ANY kind of negative light. It's like some weird bat signal to him and he has some super thin skin that makes him super easy to troll. Which is the crux of my post.

 

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dae_trist  4 stars
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Tych2 posted:

Rosaria posted:

Tych2 posted:

Sin_of_Onin posted:

It is not racist as much as openly hostile to China.

This. Its also entertaining, to me at least, that Dae_twat needs to defend China at every little slight.

I absolutely understand where Dae is coming from in this thread but I saw it much differently than he did, which I explained above. In fact I thought it was so funny I sent a copy of the vid to Xinhua.

It's EVERY thread where China is mentioned in ANY kind of negative light. It's like some weird bat signal to him and he has some super thin skin that makes him super easy to troll. Which is the crux of my post.


I said it was funny like Rosaria did. The thing is, it is racist, but no one cares.

 

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dae_trist  4 stars
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Tych2 posted:

Sin_of_Onin posted:

It is not racist as much as openly hostile to China.

This. Its also entertaining, to me at least, that Dae_twat needs to defend China at every little slight.

Could you imagine if every American on this board defended the US at every perceived slight?

Grow some skin Dae_twat. You'll lose some of that anger.



You're a huge pussy that cries gallons of tears every time I post anything, just like Moe. Hilarious, I made Moe run off crying last thread and scream at the mods to come save him. He didn't come back.

And yes, every American on the board does "defend" the US at every perceived slight. You get into hissy fits and girl fights with Mammo over the Germans in a pool picture. The difference is that the charges against China are not "slights". They're outright slander and egregious lies. If someone were to say America was gassing all of its blacks, I would also speak up - because it'd be utterly retarded to believe it.

I argue against stupidity, not comments. That's why you and Moe are so offended.

 

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eodoll  4 stars
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Is she chinese? Or vietnamese? Maybe its a chinese person speaking in an american accent making fun of vietnamese people.?
Rosaria  2 stars
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Registered: 2003-8-22 10:07:30
dae_trist posted:

I said it was funny like Rosaria did. The thing is, it is racist, but no one cares.

Some people do...


Pete Hoekstra’s ad raises ire in China — and a sense of deja vu


"The now-infamous Super Bowl ad by Michigan senate candidate Pete Hoekstra has attracted as much curiosity as outright criticism here in China, the intended “subject” of the ad.


However, a second feeling accompanied the anger: deja vu.


Chinese in general have become largely used to China-bashing during U.S. election campaign season. The last congressional cycle, in 2010, saw a torrent of ads accusing China of stealing American jobs and forcing U.S. factories to close.


The popular Web site Shanghaiist called the ad “creepy” and “racist.”


Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, played it straight with a news report about the controversy. But the first sentence of the story referred to the commercial as “a racially charged political advertisement run by former U.S. Congressman Pete Hoekstra during the Super Bowl.”


Well-known blogger and Internet freedom campaigner Michael Anti weighed in on his Twitter account @mranti, saying, “I think the problem with the ad is that it’s racist, not anti-Chinese. As a Chinese I should be amused by this ad, because it seems more like Southeast Asia. But Chinese in America are easily enraged by that sort of prejudicial defamation of the image of a Chinese woman. Also, her English is not the Chinglish of a Mainland Chinese.” (Enter Jackie Chan)


And, Hoekstra’s ad-makers apparently even got some of the Chinese characters wrong. On the Web site for the ad, the Chinese characters for “Great Wall of Debt” are wrong, according to Washington Post researcher Liu Liu in Beijing. Also, the ad oddly uses traditional Chinese characters more typical in Taiwan, instead of the simplified characters in use in mainland China."



In short, a fuck up from the first gong.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/pete-hoekstras-ad-raises-ire-in-china--and-a-sense-of-deja-vu/2012/02/08/gIQAayn1yQ_blog.html

 

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Tych2  4 stars
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dae_trist posted:

You're a huge pussy that cries gallons of tears every time I post anything, just like Moe.

You are a gap wounded vagina anytime anything is posted about China.


dae_trist posted:

And yes, every American on the board does "defend" the US at every perceived slight.

So laughable it's sad.


You are the most thinned skinned person on this board bar none. Nothing you say will redeem you of that. Everyone knows you are a thin skinned racist that can't help himself defend China at the mere slight.

 

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Yukishiro1  4 stars
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Looks like Vietnam, not China. And I've never heard a Chinese person speak that way.


It's clearly playing on all sorts of racist stereotypes. It isn't openly hostile to China. It's openly hostile to anything "Asian." Because nothing in the ad looks Chinese at all.


What it really shows is that Hoekstra and his ad makers are so dumb they don't even know what China looks like or what Chinese people talk like.
Moe_Nox  4 stars
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Registered: 2007-2-4 12:17:56
Twatter trying to project his butthurt onto others.
Oh noes, the 'Official' chinese news agency is not happy about the ad. /panic

Yuki no doubt the commercial has bias, but I in no way see that as towards Asians in general.
The accent is awful but it is precisely in there so the sentiment is NOT aimed at asians in general.
If they wanted to do that just have her speaking with a Jersey accent, or something else as absurd. But its not.
Its a 30 second clip and half of that is the candidates speaking, so they have a very short time to convey the message they want.

While I don't view it as definition racist I understand it is abrasive enough to offend some.
Some will always go one side or the other, this has been true in this thread as well. I wanted to gauge the middle ground people to see what they thought of it.
Most of them seem to be of the same opinion I am: that the message, while clumsy, is aimed at our spending and at China's policies, not the chinese race.

 

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Rosaria  2 stars
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Registered: 2003-8-22 10:07:30
Yukishiro1 posted:

Looks like Vietnam, not China. And I've never heard a Chinese person speak that way.

I expected Sylvester Stallone to leap out from behind her and steal her bike and non la.


 

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