Friday, January 18, 2013



Asian-Americans speak out against Google app they call offensive

Fun is very risky these days.  It's highly likely to "offend"  somebody

The maker of a Google app thinks it's fun to make yourself look Asian by changing the shape of your eyes and wearing a Fu Manchu mustache and rice paddy hat.

Another app - "Make Me Indian" - makes you a Native American with brown skin, war paint and a feather headband.

“This is just a fun app (that) lets you indulge you and your friends," says the description of the "Make Me Asian" app created by user KimberyDeiss and available on Google Play.

"You can for a few seconds to make (yourself) a Chinese, Japanese, Korean or any other Asians," the description says.

Not amusing or cute, say Asian-American organizations that launched a petition to get Google to remove both apps.

The apps use dated and racist stereotypes of Asians and Native Americans, said the online campaign 18 Million Rising, named after the number of Asian-Americans in the United States.

Source

9 comments:

N.R.A. said...

This can be fixed with more guns.

Anonymous said...

You would think fat Algore, a major google stock holder, would have told them what they did is not very nice. Then again, he would only get involved if there was a quick buck to be made.

Anonymous said...

WORD OF THE DAY
ADVOCACY GROUP, n.


Staffed by hypersensitive, chronically-offended, cretins, it spends every waking minute turning over rocks, frantically seeking some mind-numbing minutia which can be misinterpreted and/or re-interpreted as a egregiously oppressive...

Anonymous said...

Since you're so up in arms about not offending anyone... I'm offended by you being offended! Now what are you going to do about not offending me?

Anonymous said...

Lookie like a man.

Anonymous said...

Calling all offended Asians: get a life.

Maybe we can build an app to "Make me White." Just don't use Kanye West's photo. It'll probably explode.

Bird of Paradise said...

Whine,whine,whine you cant do anything these days without some minority cry baby whinning about it

Anonymous said...

So, just when you thought you heard of all the nutty, goofy things the Brits do, this comes along.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/suing_real_spies_life_loved_suit_YDTG8GeVHnP2CxMv2T46RO

Anonymous said...

Hey Bird, whining has become a major industry in Amerika today.