... and performed a public service by exposing members of the news media to ridicule! Well done, whoever!
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His career is totally shot now. If he ever wanted to work for the NTSB or any government agency dealing with aircraft accidents he’s a gonner. Maybe he can work for Biden.
It was the intern, that’s it! The intern.
It was probably one of the managers or producers, but the intern was heading out the door soon anyway.
ROR
>> The Asian American Journalists Association has released its own statement: “Words cannot adequately express the outrage we ... feel ...”
Yeah, whatever. How about you hyphenated Americans take some of those American CRM (Crew Resource Management) lessons the pilots in our country have been using for well over a quarter century now and mail ‘em back to the old country. Summary:
Captain no god.
Copilot no bump on log - use mouth to save everybody kimchi.
Check airman see houses get big; trouble same size soon follow.
(Apologies to my childhood hero - Charlie Chan.)
Regardless of who was responsible, this has to be one of the most insanely funny bloopers in the history of news broadcasting.
This intern is a legend now.
Interns don't correspond with news agencies.
Interns don't confirm names.
Interns photocopy.
Why are these names “racist”? They are just joke names, made possible by the fact that Asian-sounding names lend themselves to this kind of humorous manipulation. These joke names are not slurs against Asians.
What Imbeciles! Did you see the news reader announcing the correction/apology? She called the airline “Ahhseeyana” not “Aysheeana”
Has someone come up with a new way to pronounce Asian? These idiots shape our perceptions of the world.
How about Wong Lan Ding and Ho Li Kao?
How is it racist? It’s funny but I don’t see how it’s racist.
BTW, everyone who looked at those names and didn’t pick up on this prank are complete idiots.
Minor point, but I hate the "words cannot adequately express" or "there are no words to express my anger/disgust/etc." or whatever. There are about a quarter million words in the English language. Pick a few that work for you. You're angry. Ticked. Mad. Shocked and dismayed. Whatever. English is a big fluid language. And if it's really that tough, make up a new word. You're supermegatickedoff.
If Hollyweird had done this, it wouldn’t have been “rasis”. It would have been funny and the movie would be cleaning up at the box office with low information ‘RAT voters there laughing their @$$e$ off.
Oh please let him run bath house barry’s teleprompter just once.
So that collision of the Chinese jet and the US spy plane — the Chinese pilot really was named “Wong Wey” wasn’t he?
... and performed a public service by exposing members of the news media to ridicule! Well done, whoever!
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I have totally missed something here.. skipped over a couple of other threads about racist (rasis) stuff from the crash... Anyone mind explaining what I missed?