‘Kill Bills’ billboard for Powershop featuring a plug socket banned for being derogatory towards Asians
A billboard for Powershop’s featuring a plug socket with a Samurai sword and Japanese-style bandana has been banned for being derogatory towards Asians.
The billboard, which featured the phrase ‘Kill Bills’ – a play on the film title Kill Bill – drew ire from one complainant who wrote to the Ad Standards Board saying “likening a power socket to an Asian face is derogatory”.
Powershop defended the ad, explaining it is a “challenger brand looking to attract apathetic customers from their crusty old electric company”.
that is so dumb.
ex-AFL footballer Mark ‘Jacko’ Jackson used to make jokes about Asians in the 1980s referring to them as “pie faces” and “powerpoints”. Wasn’t funny even back then.
Seriously?
Last time I checked Uma Thurman was one of the whitest women going around…
What is this world coming to… people have far too much time on their hands.
“one complainant”
Get a life you nannies.
After all the other questionable (at best) crap this paper lets through? Better revisit our values, methinks.
uhh…. As an Asian, this is another case of Political Correctness GONE MAD!! I mean – what the hey?? It’s a freakin’ power socket!! It’s a PUN on the movie Kill Bill!! (which i haven’t seen in its entirety, but i do know that Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu have a sword fight and there is some Japanese theme involved.)
Gosh – it is really Amazing to me how Wanna-be-seen-as-do-gooders people just don’t get it, saying they are speaking on the minority’s behalf, when they have no real clue about how it is to be from the community they so-call represent.
Eg – “…. it is not “uncommon for the term ‘powerpoint’ to be used as an offensive and derogatory term to describe a person of Asian descent” – really??? As a middle-aged Asian, I have NEVER heard of such a term, and personally I would reckon it rocks cos it means I’m powerful enough to make a difference.
What an absolute load of hog-wash.
They have to be joking…..one complaint!!!!!
the Ad Standards Board all need to take a deep breath and get a life!!!!
Unbelievable!!!!
Who on earth would refer to an Asian person as a ‘PowerPoint’? That literally makes no sense at all. Are they powerful? Do they point? Do they give presentations?
Totally stumped…