A former television anchorman and current Asian American blogger didn’t quite get what he expected when he sat down with his popcorn in a darkened theater to watch Anchorman 2.
Emil Guillermo thought he was taking a break for a little holiday entertainment.
Instead he found himself grabbing for a pen to try to write down what he couldn’t believe he was hearing.
Ron Burgundy is driving his van and says: Only Olympic sport Filipinos are good at is eating cats and dogs.
Guillermo wrote about it in his blog for the Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund, AALDEF.
He says the joke had nothing to do with the plot and was a “pure throwaway.”
As Guillermo put it, “There are enough genuinely stupid race-free laughs in the movie; it wasn’t necessary to update the already lame stereotype of Filipino dog eaters.”
He says this joke wasn’t the only racially tinged joke in the movie. There was one about Chinese too. You can read about that in the Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund.
RE: Filipino dog eating joke ruins Anchorman 2: Stop being thin skinned.