Tisk Tisk Ashton...

Seems like Ashton Kutcher's new Popchips ad didn't just pop -- it blew up into a controversy. The actor's head-turning spot, which debuted online Wednesday and shows a brownfaced Kutcher sending up a Bollywood producer, has been yanked following a public uproar over its alleged racist overtones, according to reports. In his cheeky campaign for the snack, Kutcher can be seen playing a roulette of colorful characters looking for love on a fictitious dating service. Viewers, however, have taken offense with one of the actor's personas: a brownfaced, Indian-accented Bollywood producer named Raj. Tech pundit Anil Dash slammed the ad, writing on his blog: "I think the people behind this Popchips ad are not racist. I think they just made a racist ad, because they're so steeped in our culture's racism that they didn't even realize they were doing it." New York hip-hop group Das Racist took to Twitter to vent their anger, lashing out at Kutcher by writing, "Hey @aplusk, what's with the racist brownface video you talentless, pretending to care about sex trafficking piece of s--t?" (Eonline)

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