<p>I must be confused. I thought that someone fooled a newscaster into making a joke of a tragedy.I don’t find it funny. If anyone I knew was involved in that crash, it would probably make me feel ill that someone thought it would be clever or cute or funny to do that. Would any of you find it funny if it were your loved ones that were killed in this crash? It’s like laughing at someone who takes a spectacular fall. And then finding out they were seriously hurt. Suddenly, it is not so funny anymore. So you stop laughing. Because it’s wrong. Time and place, people.</p>
<p>As a Korean, I’m offended that the newscaster/NTSB intern were passing off what are clearly Chinese names as Korean. There is no “F” in Korean so Mr. F*k could not be a real Korean name. The level of insensitivity is appalling. :D</p>
<p>BTW, I’m the only one in my town full of white people who can tell Asian/slant eye jokes. The white people are too afraid of being not PC.</p>
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<p>Oh, please, yourself. People who disagree with you are (a) born without a humor gene, and (b) are faking their disagreement? (The only outrage I’ve seen on this thread has been the outrage of the people defending these poor excuses for jokes.)</p>
<p>And, satire? Really? Even if these jokes weren’t racist, how exactly do they fit within the definition of satire? I don’t think Jonathan Swift would be impressed.</p>
<p>As for JAP jokes, most Jewish women I know despise them. What with their being such a lovely combination of misogyny and anti-Semitism. Jewish girls are greedy, materialistic, and use sex as barter? Hilarious.</p>
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<p>Okay…the1700’s have set the standard…let’s just take it from there…</p>
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<p>If it is good witty humor, yes. </p>
<p>If it is not, at best it comes across as extremely juvenile/childish*, at worst it can be used as a form of bullying others. </p>
<p>Neither is considered a sign of intelligence…unless one’s standards are lower than that of a submarine cruising the floor of the ocean trenches. </p>
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<p>No one is laughing at the tragedy of the situation or loss of life. As much as I dislike the expression, this is a straw man argument.</p>
<p>“As much as I dislike the expression, this is a straw man argument.”</p>
<p>On behalf of all straw men out there, I am highly offended that you would bring him into this argument. Straw is more than just an agricultural by-product, you know.</p>
<p>Just kidding, if I have to explain. Everyone would be far happier if they just drank another glass of wine and stayed happier.</p>
<p>Uh oh, so now do I have to listen to more drunk pilot jokes?</p>
<p>So to change back to the original topic, a friend just emailed this video to us, which I found rather interesting, with the statement, “Classic back side of the power curve. The question is, how did they get there?”</p>
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<p>Wow, not for a second did I or anyone else I discussed this with think that the list of names was actually funny–it’s strictly tasteless middle school bus humor. What had everyone laughing was the stupidity of the morons at the station who got punked so egregiously. As for the intern, I’m sure he didn’t expect this to be taken any more seriously than the prank phone calls he made in grade school and couldn’t have dreamed any of it would actually make it on the air–but it’s also hard to believe any college student who qualified for an NTSB internship would engage in this kind of idiocy. I guess you can’t rely on anyone to have common sense these days, whether interns or broadcast professionals. But as my S said, we can just shut down the internet right now, because there will never be a more jaw-dropping moment caught on video.</p>
<p>While I don’t care for Borat-style humor, I understand it is satire. I don’t understand how this list of names is satire, or JAP jokes, etc. If someone could explain, I would appreciate it.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/satire[/url]”>http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/satire</a></p>
<p>I thought it was funny because it showed how stupid some of those news broadcaster could be. They were so hungary for news that they didn’t even bother to verify what they were reporting. It wasn’t just ONE name, there were so many of them. At which point did she even pause to wonder what she was reading.</p>
<p>I agree, oldfort. She should be really embarrassed. Do these people not bring their brains to work? </p>
<p>Speaking of TV anchors, read what these Korean reporters said about the crash.</p>
<p>[South</a> Korean TV presenter says it’s ‘lucky’ that only Chinese died in Asiana crash | South China Morning Post](<a href=“http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1277932/tv-presenter-says-its-lucky-only-two-chinese-died-asiana-crash]South”>South Korean TV presenter says it's 'lucky' that only Chinese died in Asiana crash | South China Morning Post)</p>
<p>alh, it’s beyond me. Bullies often say they were just having fun and they believe it so, too. I thought we have stopped having that kind of fun. Isn’t the receiving end supposed to decide what is fun? If a woman is a prude and says no to sex, do you go ahead and rape her anyway? If they are thin-skinned and decide it’s not fun, that’s that.</p>
<p>sally, i thought you were out?</p>
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<p>[A</a> Modest Proposal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal]A”>A Modest Proposal - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>I still don’t see how punking the anchor counts as satire. Since I clearly lack a humor gene, I would like to know what others are seeing I don’t.</p>
<p>Iglooo, yes, I was out last night. Had a lovely time at a party under the stars. :)</p>
<p>If you flounce out, you have to flounce in. No? Let’s see how you flounce in.</p>
<p>There have been quite a few similar threads. One group here sees one thing. Another group sees something entirely different. During the course of the thread, no one changes her mind.</p>
<p>I can’t see the satire here. Please deconstruct. 
Maybe it is possible for me to understand it doesn’t necessarily have to have a racist interpretation, whether or not the intention was racist.</p>
<p>jym, the animation was designed to show the difference between how flight 214 flew in to the landing strip, and how a normal descent would look. Although the speeds would be different, they were shown to be the same so as to more clearly show the disparity between the two flight paths.</p>
<p>Again, it just boggles my mind that none of the four pilots noticed anything was amiss until it was too late. If it is that easy to miss, how come we don’t have more accidents?</p>
<p>Iglooo, “flouncing” is your characterization, not mine. Amazing how much can be read into two simple words!</p>
<p>alh, I don’t think the prank was satire. Just juvenile humor. Really, a 14-year-old boy could have done it. As others have said, it was the reading of the names that made it funny to some people.</p>
<p>FlyMe, I agree. The amount of human error here is pretty shocking.</p>
<p>Making fun of names is not an uncommon humor device. There is a sketch where a football team is introduced and the names they have are the point of the entire sketch. The names clearly fall into stereotypes.</p>
<p>Clearly since people died the joke is in bad taste but that does not mean it is not funny to many people. The other day I watched the show on women comedians on TV and they all addressed this issue.
Joan Rivers told how she told a joke about her husbands suicide.
Bad taste is funny especially when you have no immediate connection with those impacted. We know it is not right and if we were more connected we might be offended but since we are not we can laugh.</p>