Burger King Slammed For 'Whopper' Of Insult

Added this to Sci-fi,....for it begs the question; "Can Mexicans REALLY BE that small"; SCIENCE,.... or FICTION???

Issues that must be addressed---

the main problem here is that while they make fun of both Americans and Mexicans,
the mexican portrayal is showing
a small mexican man who is round,
[round Mexican men hold little appeal]

while there is a tall American man.
[cowboys are ALL tall and kewl and heroic american men who smokers admire]

Also, the size of the mexican individual isn't flattering.
[but in the case of small round Mexican GURLS,....]

And let's cut the BS, what American is insulted by a cowboy?
[ NONE SHOULD BE,...at least not REAL MEN!]

We aren't really known for that any more, the wild wild west days are long gone, or at least they are in the entertainment world.
[ small round Mexican women can bring the "WILD WILD WEST" to any real cowboy! (and thats what I call the "entertainment world"!)]

"what American is insulted by a cowboy?"
[AGAIN, none SHOULD BE; cowboys are KEWL! but I repeat myself.]

Just because the stereotype may be favorable to some it should be perpetuated?
[yadayadayada;addressed that,YOU BET! All real American men wish they were COWBOYS!!!]

The last thing I personally want is for Americans to be identified as "cowboys"..
[YOU ARE DUM!]

.we had enough of that during the Bush Admin and look where that got us!
[ thats Exactly what IS GOOD for America, and SMOKERS, and COWBOYS; "bush" administration.

---NAILED IT----

How about---" .....with the Texas taste of a little spicy Mexican 'whopper virgin' "! (or perhaps "virgin whopper") ?

Mexico has massive corruption in their law enforcement and government, is dealing with a failed economy and a huge exodus of population, has a drug cartel armed to the teeth, murdering people and hanging the headless corpses from bridges ... and this ambassador thinks a little person in a BK ad will tarnish our image of Mexico?

HAHAHAHAHAHA

kind of like that one commercial with the jack-in-the-box mini burgers where they actualy use migits as their farmers....

IT WAS 4-chan they did it hahahah.. .get over it and see the humor ... and stop crossing illegally

This isn't any worse than Chelsea Handler and the Mexican midget Chuy on her show. I don't see flaming outrage about that.

This isn't any worse than old SNL skits from the 70's. Nobody's trying to get that taken off the air.

People just need to lighten up.

I think its funny and just as equally offensive to little Mexicans as it is to skinny white men who need the little Mexicans to open jars?
Anyway. Its funny.
Racist would be if it was a little Mexican woman doing the salsa or something...i didnt find that masked man to be very spicy =(

oh hells no!

this add is very stereotypical im hispanic and im 6'1 and 16 so......

its like if nabisco used black people to advertise oreos just simply becouse their black

Husband adds, "maybe if the spicy mexican eats the burger he'll become tall and lanky!"

Ever since the King came out in those bizzare Bedroom commercials all their ads have been strange. BTW I have relatives that live in Texes and they are NOT tall and lanky.
IMHO the commercial is cute. The odd couple!

Burger King is just in good sense with mexicans

I am Mexican and i like laughing at us like i like laughing at americans everyone equals to waste

Must be a slow news day if this is all there is.

i'm so damn angry about this shit that i'll never eat BK's again . it's motherfuckin taco bell 4eva for me . goddamnit .

Don't let a sandwich tear our world apart! Can't you people see what's going on here?! Together we can rise above it.

i guess it really depends on your target audience.. i can only speak for myself as a cultured (as in i've traveled to every u.s. state except alaska, and also to a half dozen other countries) texan - i happen to think it's fairly clever. if you're target audience isn't going to get the same feeling then you might not want to show it. there is a reason this same commercial isn't ran everywhere. i'm sure if we took almost every commercial ran in the u.s. and showed it to many other countries: (a) they wouldn't get it, or (b) they would be offended. it's kind of like traveling to europe and seeing what commercials they have. i usually don't get the point or laugh at them. cultures and values differ, so you can expect the marketing that is appealing to those values to change.

but in all honestly, lets get off the racism thing.

I see it as a tasteless joke. But I find no offense.

Can't have it either way, either you need to rail against all racist ads or just let free speech run its course. Don't get choosy. When you say, "take a joke," and then get your feelings all hurt when someone touches on your soft spot, you come across like a emotional basket case. Any decent joke can be funny to someone, but hurt someone as well. We Mexicans get bagged a lot, and if the same joke came down on blacks or others, there would be outrage. So get off your soap box on most other issues, unless your ready to fight across the line.

LOL!

Now whenever I open a jar I'll be thinking of tiny Mexican wrestlers. Awesome.

You know what?
Carl’s Jr. publicity is worst but I like their burgers better.

You people are way over thinking this, you don't need to get on your psychological high horses, it's a simple fucking pun. The thought of offense probably never factored in anyones decision because again it's a very simple pun... Nothing else, if you don't get the basic fact of that you are a fucking moron

AswegoAsdego asked me why I'm not as outraged over this as I was about both the watermelon whitehouse and chimp cartoon scandal.

In regards to the watermelon one, the senator would have us believe he was unaware that watermelons were a stereotype about black people. That's obviously bullshit or else there is no joke in the email he was passing around. That's where most of my "outrage" was on that- first of all that he's a SENATOR and should have better judgement, secondly that he would bullshit the public.

When it comes to the monkey cartoon, as you quoted me, "Calling black people "monkeys" and implying they are less than human has been in the racist's repertoire for ages now." Perhaps if this ad came near that level of inappropriate I would be just as outraged, and again, it was published in a newspaper- I personally put politicians and that type of publication above Burger King when it comes to the judgment they should have.

As someone else pointed out, Americans are being stereotyped along with Mexicans in this ad (I guess...) - are all people from Texas 7 ft tall and wear cowboy gear? Where's all the "outrage" over that?

The real question is can we ever depict these types of "cultural" images- cowboys, luchadors, gangsters, asian guys who are good at math, etc, withOUT it being called a stereotype? Where is the line drawn?

Is everyone then in agreement that short is bad and tall is good?

It is fun make jokes off people from other countries,
But I don’t care if they don’t give a fuck for their flag but they have to show some respect for otters

I am a fat man, I am not outraged by jokes about fat people if they are tastefully done. I think this commercial was tastefully done and I personally see no reason for outrage. You can overstep boundaries in any kind of humor if you are not careful but in the long-run people should not be so sensitive about things that are actually so inconsequential.

the main problem here is that while they make fun of both Americans and Mexicans, the mexican portrayal is showing a small mexican man who is round, while there is a tall American man. Also, the size of the mexican individual isn't flattering. And let's cut the BS, what American is insulted by a cowboy? We aren't really known for that any more, the wild wild west days are long gone, or at least they are in the entertainment world.

he's just mad cause he fits the stereotype as well, he's also too dumb to understand a pun

This is totally lame. I completely agree with the comments here. You do realize that you will never have 100% of people find all things funny... Absolute in Mexico printed an add of "the way things should be" showing all of the US as being part of mexico. You know what i did? i didn't cry about it "oh no my feelings are hurt" wah wah... NO, i just refuse to buy absolute vodka anymore and told my friends to do the same. Loss of profits is a FAR stronger message than sounding like a whiny bench (if you know what i mean). Way to make your country look like crybabies ambasador... (not that this same crying doesn't happen EVERYWHERE, probably moreso in the US). I think we all just have life a little TOO easy if we consider these sorts of things to be emotionally damaging.

So the new JackIntheCrack add for mini-sirloin-burgers with midget cowboys and cows is cool with everyone? I'm partial to degradation of little people over Mexicans although that in itself is a bit of an oxymoron. A more apt 'character' would be "Lawn-blower Man". Yeah, ever since whatshisface mexiactor made fun of the white dudes playing Soduko and seeing 'mexicans' putting US flags upsidedown, the gloves came off. Grow up and take issue with something relevant, not a clown add for fast food.

I miss the Frito Bandido & the little Chihuahua from Taco Bell....But the one that REALLY burns My ass is the Economic Assasination thru "political correctness" of the SAMBO'S chain of 24 hour pancake & Coffee house restaurants...for this one sign Me: Nighthawk without a perch

Wow. Some of these comments were not what I expected from Current users at all. Just because you have been brainwashed to except certain racial stereotypes or have had to deal with them yourself does not in any way make it right. Stereotypes and in some cases racism are perpetuated because companies like Burger King who can spend millions of dollars on advertising and have the luxury of having their product seen by millions of people.

I'm sorry if I can't just 'get over it' because I don't live in a privileged little bubble like some of you where racism obviously doesn't exist.

get. the fuck. over it

oh get over it. There are much worse things you can worry about in the world.

A little spice mexican! The little dude is spicey!

Texican whopper is really people!

You have to take it in context. This commercial is meant to be funny. Yeah, there may be stereotypes being made but don't take it too seriously. Being Asian I've dealt with stuff like this from when I was in elementary school..

Other stereotypical comments or illustrations made by politicians or newspapers are more offensive because these people are suppose to be fair and unbiased. Yeah, I think the outrage may be blown out of proportion sometimes, but I still disagree with those stereotypes from those with higher responsibility to the people.

Not only is it racist, it is also insulting to Mexicans because their laws do not allow the use of their flag in clothing, ads, etc.

the only thing that ticks me off about stuff like this is that when that republican (i forgot who) said obama was going to grow watermelons at the whitehouse, people on current went fucking apeshit over it. So where is the outrage here? I mean really you let companies dictate cultural perceptions and then wonder why people are so fucked up.

examples:
Delia the artist:
"Grose claims he was "unaware of the stereotype that black people like watermelon," and didn't mean to "offend" African Americans."

Bullshit. What the fuck did he think was funny if the cartoon was NOT playing off the stereotype of black people liking watermelon? He was just like "HAHAHA, watermelons are funny!" I don't think so.

and

I'm sorry but I can't believe some of you guys are saying this ISN'T racist. Even if it wasn't intended like that (and who are we to say what the intention was?) drawing a parallel between our black president and a chimp IS RACIST.

"It links the chimp to Obama, who signed his administration's economic stimulus plan on Tuesday." Calling black people "monkeys" and implying they are less than human has been in the racist's repertoire for ages now.

If you can honestly sit here and explain to me why this ISN'T racist I would appreciate it!

So tell me: Where is the outrage now?

Its funny. "a little mexican flavor" represented by a little mexican. Oh no's!!!! Poking fun at racist stereotypes is terrible!! Honestly, political correctness kinda kills things. Mexican is just as "racist" as Texan. Just because it happens to be a short brown person doesn't mean its racist......And if it is, the Texan depiction is just as racist so it balanced out haha.

You know what, yes it's a joke and yes, it may be funny....but a racist joke is still a racist joke no matter what.

People of short stature can more easily bench press more weight per body weight than a long armed person...
It's a matter of mechanics and leverage...

I keep a Mexican in my pocket, for when i can't open a jar.

Are Mexicans stereotyped as being short and good at opening jars?