by Julián Totino Tedesco
The best part is that Hoekstra’s reps have come out to say that it’s not racist and anyone who thinks so is wrong and ignorant of “job creation policies”!!!
The Chinese character’s lines in Pete Hoekstra’s Superbowl ad are written in the cliched style of the gramatically-challenged Asian (“Your economy get very weak”) but the actress delivers them in her own completely unaccented American voice. Presumably the makers of the ad felt that a fake Chinese accent ON TOP OF broken English would be offensive. I SUPPOSE it’s progress that in 2012 you can’t traffic in ethnic stereotypes without being self-conscious about it.
