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Racist Attitudes So Ingrained, Ad Company Misses the 'Duh' Moment

Something that should have never made it past the brainstorming stage, if it should even have been verbalized at all:

A campaign designed to encourage Ukrainian tourists to travel in Asia has backfired after being branded 'utterly offensive and 'racist.'

The colourful words on the advert for a Kiev travel agency read: 'See Asia like Asians do', with the accompanying tag line telling viewers 'to read the text screw up your eyes.'

It is accompanied by a collage of photos showing people using their index fingers to slant their eyes while reading the poster.

Many of the defenders say that it's clearly a joke and nobody "meant" to be racist. Well, yeah, see, the problem is when you think doing this is ok and not racist. It means the racism is so ingrained that you can't see that it's offensive. You just think "Ha ha. Isn't that a funny joke?". Um...no, it's not. That's not funny and neither is the "I'm pretending to speak Chinese by saying 'ching chong choi'" thing. Just in case you were wondering. It just means you're ignorant.