How Not to Talk About Asiana Airlines's Crash Landing - Alexander Abad-Santos - The Atlantic Wire

How Not to Talk About Asiana Airlines's Crash Landing - Alexander Abad-Santos - The Atlantic Wire

We get it—the crash was scary and the pun was sort of a gimme. But it's also causing controversy. No one is arguing that the crash landing wasn't scary, but some Asian American groups are pointing out that the headline easily be seen as the kind of "L-R" switch employed by a litany of derogatory jokes aimed at making fun of Asians and Asian accents. Considering that there were two Chinese passengers were killed, that headline became more hurtful to some. Anthony Tao at Beijing Cream called the headline "subliminal racism"