I haven't seen "oh no they didn't" type comments, and I confess that after a momentary flinch I frankly got over it - she said it with the same tone as e.g. Martin Sheen, in the election-day episode of West Wing, said it was early and there were plenty of results left to falsify. Taking the piss, I mean to say, which is a typical way of addressing even an issue the characters (and thus by definition the writers) recognize as serious. That is: evidently Gwen and Rhys are conscious that Filipinos (or poss. Asians in general) are exploited in their area. They obviously (I felt, given the tone) have no intention of exploiting anyone, and don't think much of the people doing the exploiting.
Given the past four years' worth of tensions Rusty may have trod a little more carefully, but on the other hand he (obviously) may not have done [g], and his own dodgy race issues aren't (imo) a good reason not to have a character make a wiseass remark.
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Date: 2009-07-08 01:35 pm (UTC)Given the past four years' worth of tensions Rusty may have trod a little more carefully, but on the other hand he (obviously) may not have done [g], and his own dodgy race issues aren't (imo) a good reason not to have a character make a wiseass remark.