You can still watch the original flash episodes on icebox.com, and I’m sure they will be FAR more offensive to your gentle sensibilities.

Also, I’m surprised that this bookmark portal hasn’t been sued by the owners of “Mr. Wong”

America did not “hold on to” West Berlin. West Berlin was – and still is – part of the Federal Republic of Germany. That status was not being challenged by anyone so I don’t know what you’re sucking out of your thumb there.

>> “… and later defeated the communists”

I’m sorry to disappoint you, but America did not “defeat the communists”. There are millions of communists alive and well today, as we speak! But you’re were probably trying to refer to the disintegration of the Soviet bloc. Well, *that* was the result of a long process in which internal changes had played a much more important role than America flexing its muscles.

>> “…and eventually saved east Berlin.”

Yeah. After which they ventured to save Moscow. And then Mars.

@Zanzibar:
>> “Europe has never been known for being politically correct.”

Thank (insert name of your supreme divine being/concept here) for that. In Europe we – at least those of us who aren’t idiots – have intercultural competence. We use reason, common sense and plain old human respect. We don’t make a big deal about it. Personally, I’m happy that here I’m not surrounded by your type of PC, which stinks of paranoia, lack of self-confidence and an utter disregard of diversity. If that last part seems confusing, meditate on it.

Unfortunately, and this will thrill you, no doubt, there *is* a slow trend here in Germany that some people are adopting American PC paranoia. They are usually a) timid business folks who think they have to conform to such nonsense in order to be regarded as “modern” or b) loser type personalities who, after having abandoned various other bogus fads, need something new.

@ Ms. Wong:
>> ‘Eric – open a competing site: “Herr Schulz – Master of the Bookmark Concentration Camp” ‘

Wow, you’re a marketing wiz: ‘Concentrating’, i.e. ‘collecting into one space’ bookmarks / ‘camp’ as a term for the users of this service. Not bad!

Okay, but seriously… anyone who actually thinks “German” –> “Concentration Camp” is a logical and appropriate analogy: Please do us all a favour and go fuck yourself.

Finally, I’d like to join others in asking Ernie to remove the word “Christ”. You are using the name of Christ in vain. Millions of Christians are offended. How can you do this? North Americans obviously have no idea about the long hard way Christianity has come and has had to stand up against its opressors throughout the centuries. Do you know how many people were killed by the Romans just because of their religion?

Probably not as many as those people killed by the Mao regime (current estimates ca. 40.000.000), but hey. Speaking of which: As others have pointed out, now that the evil offending oh-so-stereotypical cartoon man has been removed, Mr. Wong currently sports a red pentagonal star (which, for those in North America who may not know, is a symbol of communism/socialism) next to its logotype. Anybody remember Tiananmen Aquare ‘89? The government of the People’s Republic of China did certain things to its citizens that I won’t spell out here, for the benefit of North American sensitive souls. But anyway, nobody seems to care about that star and to quote you, Ernie: This makes me INCREDIBLY FUCKING ANGRY.

The main reason a cartonn is a cartonn its cause its stereotyping…Your attitude reminds me to the story we had last year here against the danish cartoons about Allah..meanwhile these has been drawing with the idea to link allah with islamic terrorsim, what for sure can offend islamic ppl, I cant see any offense in a friendly somewhat stereotypike looking asian guy…less as he isnt used in any racist context against/about the “asian race”….

Have you ever seen a frenchman fooling around cause he did not like the way the french were drwan in the Asterix & Obelix comics or even better an italian fooling about how the romans were drawn ??

Someone beeing offended by a cartoon like that need some professionell help rather than asking to take a logo down…

The way you argue could work for everything..that way you could aks to take off nearly everything on earth…and I cant see how this logo might fit in any “political correctness” debate as this is about anything but politics and at any point this cartoon is used to claim : THIS is what the average asian dude is looking like….and just in north america it can be understand this way..this is just ill man !

If you wanna write some lines about “political correctness” you´d better spend some time on “your” iraq war.