By now, If you live in the SF Bay Area, you have already heard the story about a HUGE gaffe that occurred at KTVU Channel 2 (Oakland, CA). If you haven't have a look at the story below (plus video):
KTVU apologizes for racist SF plane crash gaffe
That's been some varying reactions to this. As expected, a lot of Asian Americans have taken offense to this gaffe. Asian Americans have a lot of jokes made at their expense. Sometimes, these jokes are funny. Sometimes they are not. In this case, since this particular gaffe was involving the recent Asiana accident at SFO, it is even more appalling that this occurred.
While I don't particularly feel outraged over the gaffe, I do not find it particularly funny. The gaffe was involving the name of the pilots of the Asiana plane. The pilots are likely not feeling too hot these days. The accident that occurred has taken three lives though we are really lucky that there weren't a lot more.
It is interesting to watch other people's reactions. At my office, where there are a mix of Asians and non-Asians, most of the non-Asians thought it was funny but were surprised this gaffe slipped through. Was it racist? Whoever's idea it was, I don't think it was racist. But it has racial overtones and that's never a good thing in my mind.
Asian-Americans aren't necessarily a loud voice but this was one gaffe no one's going to forget anytime soon.
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