The two scenarios aren't the same. The target of Sugar's joke wasn't the Chinese child in the picture, it was Apple, for its exploitation.mistermack wrote:I suppose he was stereotyping a race, if you can call Asian a race.
Maybe Alan Sugar might bleat, if you made a joke about money-grabbing jews? I have a feeling he might.
Jews are not meant to be made fun of, except by other jews. That's only because Hitler went and killed six million of them, and if we joke about them, we might do the same. So now we are in the position where it's ok to make a stereotype joke about asians, but not jews.
Sad but true.
The comparison with the holocaust would only match if you were taking the piss out of Nazis.