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Apology email from QVC

I am still oxox — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 23:29:15 GMT

It refers to Women, Asians and the TSV. Anyone know what they are reffering to?

Re: Apology email from QVC

Marp — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 23:34:36 GMT

https://community.qvc.com/t5/Today-s-Special-Value/Are-you-serious/m-p/8355975#M127295

Re: Apology email from QVC

Kachina624 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 23:43:30 GMT

Sounds like the only one due an apology was Amy, and she probably has more important things on her mind today.

Why that discussion was allowed to continue, in light of QVC's sensitivity to racial issues, is beyond me.

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Carmie — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:01:13 GMT

@Kachina624 No, QVC owed their whole audience an apology.

When women are on the receiving end of sexual insults, it hurts us all.

There is no room in our society for this disrespectable language.

I am happy that many spoke up and called out this wrong and I am happy that QVC publically apologized. It was the right thing to do.

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Greeneyedlady21 — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:08:17 GMT

On International Women's Day too

Apology owed to all

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songbird — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:11:07 GMT

@I am still oxox wrote:
It refers to Women, Asians and the TSV. Anyone know what they are reffering to?

I can't repeat it, but it's in a pigeon style of English and stereotypes Asians. I considered it offensive and I was shocked when Iread the two emails. It maybe somone will get fired.

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Kachina624 — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:14:23 GMT

@Carmie. Most people obviously didn't get the connect or know about the source. I sure didn't and have yet to see anything I'd consider insulting. Since you seem well informed, perhaps you can advise why I should be insulted?

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KingstonMom — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:17:48 GMT

C'mon @Kachina624

You know this place is all about opinions, @Carmie just stated hers.

You sounded a bit snarky here.....

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elated — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:19:27 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
@Carmie. Most people obviously didn't get the connect or know about the source. I sure didn't and have yet to see anything I'd consider insulting. Since you seem well informed, perhaps you can advise why I should be insulted?

To many Asian-American women, hearing the phrase “Me love you long time” can be completely de-humanizing and traumatic.Yet this hasn’t stopped the phrase from casually entering various areas of pop culture, school yards, and the music and fashion industries. It’s a weaponized phrase deployed to put down Asian diaspora women, to make us the joke. It's used to reduce Asian and Asian-American women to sex objects. Asian hate crimes have disproportionately been an Asian women’s issue. Sixty-one percent of reported incidents happened to Asian and Asian diaspora women, largely due to the hypersexualization of them. While this should have happened ages ago, now is the time to make sure the use of this phrase as a weapon to belittle and objectify Asian and Asian-American women stops.

While many think the phrase started in 1989 with a 2 Live Crew track in which female vocals ooze “Me so horny. Me love you long time,” the words were originally spoken by actress Papillon Soo Soo, who portrays a Vietnamese sex worker soliciting American GIs in the 1987 Stanley Kubrick film, Full Metal Jacket.

Unfortunately, we can’t ask the men who wrote the movie—Kubrick, Michael Herr, and Gustav Hasford (whose novel, The Short-Timers, became the movie), all of whom are dead—what their intentions were when they wrote that line of dialogue. From the reactions of the soldiers in the scene, it appears the Asian female character was being mocked.

Re: Apology email from QVC

Greeneyedlady21 — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:22:42 GMT

It's a well known slur against Asian women, what other explanation could possibly be necessary?

Just because one isn't Asian doesn't mean one shouldn't be insulted by the corporate use of that slur or any other use of that slur. We should all care about bigotry even if it doesn't involve our own ethnic, racial, or personal identity. It's demeaning to all of us as human beings.

It's part of what being an American used to be about.

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Samsuma — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:26:05 GMT

Oh Please! With all going on in this world we are focused on this??? There’s a genocide going on and everyone needs to feel offended Grow up

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KingstonMom — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:30:40 GMT

We are grown up. Nobody said that this is the ONLY problem going on in this world, did they?

I think you need to grow up, since you mentioned it.

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colleena — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:38:47 GMT

@Greeneyedlady21 I agree; if we don't speak up about derogatory comments made than who'll speak up when they are made about us.

Re: Apology email from QVC

Mersha — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:49:32 GMT

For those who were not aware the phrase used was derogatory to a certain segment of the population, now you know and will be sensitive to that going forward.

QVC did the right thing and apologized to everyone for the error.

When we know better, we do better...hopefully.

Let's get back to a kinder, gentler place.

Re: Apology email from QVC

Kachina624 — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:51:27 GMT

@Greeneyedlady21 wrote:
It's a well known slur against Asian women, what other explanation could possibly be necessary?

Just because one isn't Asian doesn't mean one shouldn't be insulted by the corporate use of that slur or any other use of that slur. We should all care about bigotry even if it doesn't involve our own ethnic, racial, or personal identity. It's demeaning to all of us as human beings.

It's part of what being an American used to be about.

@Greeneyedlady21. It is not well known obviously. I never heard of such a thing. From what people have written here, from m6 viewpoint, it sounds like much ado about nothing. There have been many other things said and done far more insulting.

I can't speak from the Asian viewpoint.

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SandySparkles — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:59:31 GMT

KUDOS to The Q for assessing, and quickly accepting responsibility while responding with a well deserved apology!👏👏👏

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

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NYCLatinaMe — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 01:01:14 GMT

@Kachina624 I too am offended that QVC would send out a racist email. apologizing to everyone was appropriate. It would have been even better if the email had never gone out, if no one would have thought to write it.

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Marp — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 01:04:09 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:

@Greeneyedlady21 wrote:
It's a well known slur against Asian women, what other explanation could possibly be necessary?

Just because one isn't Asian doesn't mean one shouldn't be insulted by the corporate use of that slur or any other use of that slur. We should all care about bigotry even if it doesn't involve our own ethnic, racial, or personal identity. It's demeaning to all of us as human beings.

It's part of what being an American used to be about.
@Greeneyedlady21. It is not well known obviously. I never heard of such a thing. From what people have written here, from m6 viewpoint, it sounds like much ado about nothing. There have been many other things said and done far more insulting.

I can't speak from the Asian viewpoint.

@Kachina624, either shame on you or please amend your post for clarification. Your words sound like since this doesn't affect you it isn't important.

Wrong. It is important. Important not only to those of Asian descent but everyone.

Re: Apology email from QVC

Tupe — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 01:07:07 GMT

I got the apology email. Frankly, I don't buy Lug products. They've never worked for me so I deleted the email without even opening it. Sounds like no one was reviewing the marketing material. Shame on them.

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Kachina624 — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 01:12:38 GMT

@NYCLatinaMe. The faux pas was probably made by some poor underling of a clerk who had no clue about the possible insult or that the vendor was Asian. Totally inadvertant error of something very obscure from fiction. The quote, taken alone, sounds like a lovely thought. Maybe AI did it.