初稱校對錯誤後說開除責任人「編輯是英國人」 用詞歧視亞裔費城報紙道歉 Philadelphia newspaper apologizes, fires editor for racist photo caption

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初稱校對錯誤後說開除責任人「編輯是英國人」 用詞歧視亞裔費城報紙道歉 Philadelphia newspaper apologizes, fires editor for racist photo caption

The Philadelphia Public Record posted an apology on its website Sunday after a racist photo caption in the paper's print edition named three Asian Americans "Me Too, Chinky Winky and Dinky Doo." (Philadelphia Public Record via Philadelphia magazine)

免費周報《費城公共記錄報》（The Philadelphia Record）在其8月21日出版的報紙上使用了歧視亞裔的詞語，目前該報已公開致歉並開除了相關責任人。

在8月21日的《費城公共記錄報》上，有一張費城市議員斯奎拉在該市唐人街舉辦籌款活動的照片，該照片是斯奎拉與7名亞裔的合照，但照片下面的說明除了列出以上8人的名字之外，還列出了「Me too」、「Chinky Winky」和「Dinky Doo」等歧視亞裔的名字。

圖片說明中7名亞裔排列順序與圖片上的參與者不符，而且還將英文單詞「for」錯寫為「fro」。

該報編輯泰亞在22日接受《費城雜誌》（Philadelphia Magazine）採訪時辯稱：「這是一個校對錯誤。」

他還表示，使用這些詞語是因為他沒有得到參與者的真名。他說，一名自由職業的攝影師提交這張照片時附上了這3個綽號。

當記者指出，圖片說明中的名字實際上比照片中參與者的名字還要多時，他重申：「這是一個校對錯誤。」當被問及為甚麼編輯不使用通用佔位符，而是用這些種族歧視語時，泰亞說：「編輯是英國人，他使用這些詞語並沒有任何實際意義。《費城公共記錄報》是最具包容性的刊物。」   

Just a few days after Philadelphia Public Record publisher Jimmy Tayoun Sr. (pictured) shrugged off the Asian slurs that appeared in last week’s edition of his newspaper, chalking them up to a “proofreading error,” Tayoun has terminated the responsible employee.

In the August 21st edition of the free weekly tabloid, Asians seen in a photograph with City Councilman Mark Squilla were captioned as “Chinky Winky,” “Dinky Doo,” and “Me Too.” When we reached out to Tayoun about the caption on Friday, he told us that we were making something out of nothing. “Nobody is offended,” he said. “Stop trying to start trouble.”

But Tayoun was wrong. Plenty of people — Asian and otherwise — were offended, and outrage ensued, with talk of a boycott of the newspaper's advertisers, which include car dealers and potential mayoral candidate Anthony Williams.

As we reported earlier, the newspaper was forced to issue an apology, and now, according to Daily News scribe Chris Brennan, Tayoun has fired the unnamed employee. "We don't want to add fuel to the fire," Tayoun told Brennan.