“Tao Nightclub & Asian Bistro in Las Vegas makes no secret of its tendency to fetishize the cultures on which it bases is cuisine and Buddha-lined interior.
It’s a nightlife theme park where the Disney princesses dress as R-rated geishas. That’s bad enough for some Asian Americans. But a billboard near LAX is straight-up racist in the eyes of some.
Affinity China CEO Christine Lu, who uses LAX a lot to travel overseas as part of the business investment firm, this week spotted Tao’s “Always a Happy Ending” billboard for the second time and tweeted it out to the world, including to L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti, in disgust.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
*Read more here from Dennis Romero / LA Weekly:
http://www.laweekly.com/informer/2014/03/26/happy-ending-billboard-near-lax-offends-some-asian-americans