Japanese McDonald's Makes Fun of White People

[RelexCryo]

Forget what I said here, deleted. I was wrong. Sigh.

 

[PeaceFistCreations]

I hate the type of people who get bothered by stupid jokes like this, and try to fucking sue and boycott away things they don't like.
My theory is that these pansy-ass spoiled shits are the ones ruining everything in America, trying to make us look like a bunch of sensitive pussies.

Its an extremely blatant stereotype, a Japanese citizen would have to be a fucking moron for this ad to affect his view of Americans.
By the way, remember when we dropped an A-bomb on a city filled with innocent people? I think whatever committee is trying to stop these ads better start by getting on their knees and cleaning some nobs before their whiny shit is taken seriously.


Also, do you remember how racist we were to them during WW2? It's going to take a surge of horrifying racism towards whites from all over Asia to make up for the way we portrayed them during that period.

Besides, even if this was made to be intentionally racist and negative toward whites, its a pretty damn simple job they've done. I'm sure they are much more capable of some pretty nasty shit that would be able to fly under the mainstream radar without consequences from their public. Remember, these are the guys selling used underwear in vending machines and created a form of porn which involves...well jeez, that tentacle raping monsters shit, goddammit.
Also, very good point below:

One thing that seems to be a constant, however, is tourists being either crazily ignorant or believe that stereotypes apply to everyone. I'm sure that there are Japanophiles that will go to Japan and act like Mr. James, even if the majority of them don't. This commercial is probably making fun of the American tourists who believe that Japan is made of catgirls and pocky rather than white people in general. Complaining about this is silly, especially if the complainers think that it is a universal statement.

And now, I will complain for a bit just because I'm not done rambling.

I know what these kind of tourists are like, too, because I've had to deal with many of them. I live in Texas, and so I have had to deal with people ask me where they can find Cowboy hats/boots and have been asked by many people if I own any livestock. It's annoying as hell to have to deal with these kind of tourists, and people will make fun of you if you do. I'm sure Japanese people are tired of being asked where all the cosplayers and porn are as well, so I say let them do this because it's going to make more than one person rethink how they've been acting while on vacation.

 

[Scrythe]

Japan is racist. This is old news.

 

[TraumaHound]

I'm confused: is it "white people" that're being made fun of or "Americans"? Seems more like the latter, though I can't say that I'd be offended either way (myself being a nerdy, white, American.) I don't think it's so much offensive as it is just lame. Granted, some comedy doesn't translate well across international borders so it may be a big advert hit in Japan.

*shrug* At any rate, I don't find it anything worth getting up in arms about.

 

[Symplify]

Sounds excellent. As a white person I would take no real offense to this, we poke fun at others quite enough.

 

[Neotericity]

Us white people are sooo hard done by.

 

[WhiteTiger225]

I think after all the shit white people have said and done about other races, they're allowed to take a pop at us now and again.
I mean is anyone actually offended by this or are they just being offended for the sake of being offended?

Well to start with yuor first half there... You should try reading up on what the Japanese did to the first few waves of foreign sailors to port at their cities before you go blaming whites for everything racist. Yuo can also blame the blacks for slavery of blacks, seeing as most slaves whites used that were black were barted for from african villages. Or you can also look that asian slaves were enslaved by their own people and sold, or that the Tibetins still sell young girls into bondage to this day. But hey.. that would actually be researching the roots of slavery instead of just going by what the majority have watered slavery down to

But yes I agree NO ONE should be offended by this. Honestly, to quote Mencia about the Tacobell dog offending Mexicans...
"That dog is racist!"
"Why is that?"
"Because... he looks like me"

 

[WhiteTiger225]

I hate the type of people who get bothered by stupid jokes like this, and try to fucking sue and boycott away things they don't like.
My theory is that these pansy-ass spoiled shits are the ones ruining everything in America, trying to make us look like a bunch of sensitive pussies.

Its an extremely blatant stereotype, a Japanese citizen would have to be a fucking moron for this ad to affect his view of Americans.
By the way, remember when we dropped an A-bomb on a city filled with innocent people? I think whatever committee is trying to stop these ads better start by getting on their knees and cleaning some nobs before their whiny shit is taken seriously.


Also, do you remember how racist we were to them during WW2? It's going to take a surge of horrifying racism towards whites from all over Asia to make up for the way we portrayed them during that period.

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Though I will agree that no one should take this Ad seriously...

Might I point out a few things?

1. THEY STARTED IT. We were sitting in our harbors, minding our own buisness while the REST of the world was having an all out war, but NOOOOOOOOOOO, those Axis siding jerks had to come along and ruin our fun. Yeah, we DID kinda overreact, BUT, we did build them right back after, and even were nice enough to let them keep their country instead of taking it over and turning it into a Wal-Mart or whatever people who own a country do after...
2. The estimated Loss of life was in the multi millions if we tried a regular invasion, in which innocent people would still die by the city full, but with the dropping of two A bombs (Our only 2, even though we told them we had WarehouseS full of them XD) we cut that loss factor by a large percentile, and in turn curved a large loss of human life, into a still large, ubt not AS large loss of life.
3. Did I mention they were siding with the Axis at the time?
4. Did you EVER listen to what they did to POWs? Should read that up sometime, malnourishing prisoners to the point they make starving ethiopians look like the fattest of modern day americans is perfectly okay, but water boarding someone, something colleges do for initiation? YOU MONSTERS!

 

[CompanionCube]

I've been waiting for this, now all the white racists can have a taste of there own medicine.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

YOU NO HUNGRY FO GIRL!... need i say more?

 

[Bofore13]

This seems quite similar to the whole Resident Evil 5 debockle it really is just INTENSELY stupid on the part of whoever thought this ad up and must be force feed nothing but McDonald's MOLTEN HOT french fry grease for not realizing that a great deal of people would take offense to this I myself have many friends that understand kanji and they are in high school.

Once again the INTENSE stupidity of humanity somehow surprises me.

 

[runedeadthA]

Just seems like a harmless joke to me. People take offense at anything these days.

I know what you mean, Everyone is taking such care these days not to offend each other they just end up being pissed off at each other instead -_-

 

[slopeslider]

I hate the type of people who get bothered by stupid jokes like this, and try to fucking sue and boycott away things they don't like.
My theory is that these pansy-ass spoiled shits are the ones ruining everything in America, trying to make us look like a bunch of sensitive pussies.

Its an extremely blatant stereotype, a Japanese citizen would have to be a fucking moron for this ad to affect his view of Americans.
By the way, remember when we dropped an A-bomb on a city filled with innocent people? I think whatever committee is trying to stop these ads better start by getting on their knees and cleaning some nobs before their whiny shit is taken seriously.


Also, do you remember how racist we were to them during WW2? It's going to take a surge of horrifying racism towards whites from all over Asia to make up for the way we portrayed them during that period.

Though I will agree that no one should take this Ad seriously...

Might I point out a few things?

1. THEY STARTED IT. We were sitting in our harbors, minding our own buisness while the REST of the world was having an all out war, but NOOOOOOOOOOO, those Axis siding jerks had to come along and ruin our fun. Yeah, we DID kinda overreact, BUT, we did build them right back after, and even were nice enough to let them keep their country instead of taking it over and turning it into a Wal-Mart or whatever people who own a country do after...
2. The estimated Loss of life was in the multi millions if we tried a regular invasion, in which innocent people would still die by the city full, but with the dropping of two A bombs (Our only 2, even though we told them we had WarehouseS full of them XD) we cut that loss factor by a large percentile, and in turn curved a large loss of human life, into a still large, ubt not AS large loss of life.
3. Did I mention they were siding with the Axis at the time?
4. Did you EVER listen to what they did to POWs? Should read that up sometime, malnourishing prisoners to the point they make starving ethiopians look like the fattest of modern day americans is perfectly okay, but water boarding someone, something colleges do for initiation? YOU MONSTERS![/quote]
Im all for showing japan were strong and not risking a land invasion, but bombing CIVILIAN CITIES!? Unprovoked Military Attack= bad.
Unprovoked Civilian attack=TERRORISM. An important military base is OK(They still backstabbed us in Pearl Harbor), but a City full of innocent families is not. We call killing innocent people these days TERRORISM. Had Al Quada attacked a military base and NOT NYC There'd be less outrage and a war on Al Qaeda, not a war on Terrorism.
They could've bombed Japan's bases where combatants understand the risks instead of cutting thousands of innocent Non-threatening lives short. TWICE. I mean what could they have even SAID? 'Yeah we weren't at war with you civilians. We killed your armies because thats how war works, but we killed your families to prove a point. To any of the retired Japanese military vets; You killed us, we killed you. We Are no longer at war and are now Allies. We're cool, right?
To the Dead and slowly dying victims of our bomb; Yeah we didnt feel like fighting your armies so We decided to make an example out of you TWICE as you were going about your peaceful daily lives. Our bad.'

 

[Maveroid]

Wow,some people really get upset about this?
And I thought that the guys that started the whole "RE5 is racist" campaign were the only idiots that get offended by just about anything...

 

[Reaperman64]

I went to japan last year...learnt a few Phrases (enough to order Maccy Ds anyways) and the whole process was very foreigner friendly...they had a board with numbers on and you just pointed...i never encountered any problems with language barriers...even if i did suck at japenese everyone was really undderstanding...maybe we could learn to laugh at ourselves?

 

[tsb247]

I can see why they'd be upset. Anyone remember how Taco Bell got sued for the Chihuahua, with some people claiming that it was a racist stereotype? If you don't, that's why it disappeared: some Mexicans thought that it was racist. This is just another version of that. If "Yo quiero Taco Bell" had to go in the US, I think it's entirely reasonable that they would make these demands.

Not that I find anything offensive with it, mind you: I just hate the concept of Acceptable Targets. If you can make fun of one group, and use stereotypes of one group, you should be allowed to do so to all groups.

I agree. I remember the Taco Bell dog, and I remember how he quickly disappeared when lawsuits came rolling in. There is a double standard here, and it is sort of ridiculous. Either everyone should be fair game for this sort of thing or nobody should. It's that simple.

 

[WhiteTiger225]

I hate the type of people who get bothered by stupid jokes like this, and try to fucking sue and boycott away things they don't like.
My theory is that these pansy-ass spoiled shits are the ones ruining everything in America, trying to make us look like a bunch of sensitive pussies.

Its an extremely blatant stereotype, a Japanese citizen would have to be a fucking moron for this ad to affect his view of Americans.
By the way, remember when we dropped an A-bomb on a city filled with innocent people? I think whatever committee is trying to stop these ads better start by getting on their knees and cleaning some nobs before their whiny shit is taken seriously.


Also, do you remember how racist we were to them during WW2? It's going to take a surge of horrifying racism towards whites from all over Asia to make up for the way we portrayed them during that period.

Though I will agree that no one should take this Ad seriously...

Might I point out a few things?

1. THEY STARTED IT. We were sitting in our harbors, minding our own buisness while the REST of the world was having an all out war, but NOOOOOOOOOOO, those Axis siding jerks had to come along and ruin our fun. Yeah, we DID kinda overreact, BUT, we did build them right back after, and even were nice enough to let them keep their country instead of taking it over and turning it into a Wal-Mart or whatever people who own a country do after...
2. The estimated Loss of life was in the multi millions if we tried a regular invasion, in which innocent people would still die by the city full, but with the dropping of two A bombs (Our only 2, even though we told them we had WarehouseS full of them XD) we cut that loss factor by a large percentile, and in turn curved a large loss of human life, into a still large, ubt not AS large loss of life.
3. Did I mention they were siding with the Axis at the time?
4. Did you EVER listen to what they did to POWs? Should read that up sometime, malnourishing prisoners to the point they make starving ethiopians look like the fattest of modern day americans is perfectly okay, but water boarding someone, something colleges do for initiation? YOU MONSTERS!

Im all for showing japan were strong and not risking a land invasion, but bombing CIVILIAN CITIES!? Unprovoked Military Attack= bad.
Unprovoked Civilian attack=TERRORISM. An important military base is OK(They still backstabbed us in Pearl Harbor), but a City full of innocent families is not. We call killing innocent people these days TERRORISM. Had Al Quada attacked a military base and NOT NYC There'd be less outrage and a war on Al Qaeda, not a war on Terrorism.
They could've bombed Japan's bases where combatants understand the risks instead of cutting thousands of innocent Non-threatening lives short. TWICE. I mean what could they have even SAID? 'Yeah we weren't at war with you civilians. We killed your armies because thats how war works, but we killed your families to prove a point. To any of the retired Japanese military vets; You killed us, we killed you. We Are no longer at war and are now Allies. We're cool, right?
To the Dead and slowly dying victims of our bomb; Yeah we didnt feel like fighting your armies so We decided to make an example out of you TWICE as you were going about your peaceful daily lives. Our bad.'[/quote]

Again dear, this is where a little research goes a long way to ACTUAL facts.

The two cities were NOT just housing civilians, but garrisons AND housing for military personal. It's kinda like if they dropped a bomb on the coastline of Conneticut and on Manhattan Island. Yeah A LOT of civilians would be killed, BUT, they would also have destroyed one of our top submarine manufacturing plants, and an entire army regiment, clearing a now fortifyable position for an invasion... but again, that requires research to discover and people don't like facts it seems XD

 

[BrownGaijin]

So he's a stereotypical white nerdy gaijin visiting Japan
Hmm... how much time out of my day should I take to think about this?
:01...
:02...
Desu Desu Desu...
:03...
"Me likee McFlied Lice!" hee hee...
:04...
:05...
Attention duelists!
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Nice boat...
:08...
I wonder what they'd think if Densha Otoko appeared here in the US?
:09...
Moe Moe... Kyun!
:10...
While I'd like to say something more in depth, I feel like I can't say much on account that I'm not white. I'm an American, but not white. Even if I was a lighter shade of brown, I wouldn't even know where to begin. Seeing as I've already taken up more time than I think it's worth, I am going to let it go, and hope that at the end of all of this, every one (on both sides of the Pacific) will have enough of a sense of humor to let this go.