Jurassic World was released last weekend and became the year’s biggest film, but that’s not the news. The news is their unintentional racism and British satirical comedian Guzzy Bear’s hilarious reaction to it.
The film, of course, contains many dinosaurs – one of which is the Pachycephalosaurus. But that’s a very long name, and in a fast-paced action movie centred around a genetically modified dinosaur, ain’t nobody got time to be pronouncing that. The shortening of its name lead to the line: “The Pachys are out of containment!”
In the UK, “Paki” has long been a racial slur for people of South Asian descent. And “Pachy” is pronounced the same way. The American screenwriters would have had no idea that the line could be interpreted this way, we hope. Still though, Guzzy Bear has something to say about it.
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