I'm going to have to quote the Doctor here. What? What? WHAT?

[themadpoker]

My Own Private India Oh my God, I am judging TIME magazine so hard right now. Do they not have editors? Did no one read this and be like 'whoa that is so blatantly racist it's not even funny'? Seriously, do they just publish ANYTHING?

Nice takedown by Kal Penn here: The "Hilarious" Xenophobia of Time's Joel Stein

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[hmsharmony.livejournal.com]

Wow. I just...wow. I read his little bit at the end explaining what he was trying to accomplish, but this was DEFINITELY not the way to go about it. *shakes head*

http://themadpoker.livejournal.com/232085.html

[themadpoker.livejournal.com]

I saw the end notes but I was really unimpressed with both of them. Especially the TIME response. =_= Saying they regret that readers were offended and that it was not intended to cause offense is not the same as acknowledging that it was really racist and apologizing for publishing it.

Re: http://themadpoker.livejournal.com/232085.html

[hmsharmony.livejournal.com]

Nope, agreed completely. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt (probably too much), but even with that in mind...you'd have to be REALLY stupid to write an article like that.