Simply put, yes, the Ashton Kutcher Popchips ad was racist and offensive and deserved to be taken down.
That's the general message sent in the following video by Hasan Minhaj, an Indian comedian who says in the missive to Kutcher in the missive:
"You have a sh-tty accent and you're not even being racist correctly. Okay, look. Maybe Popchips didn't consciously want to offend minorities. But subconsciously they knew they could get away with clowning Indians and Asians. Because that's the way it is now. They wouldn't do that with any other ethnicity."
While making some funny jokes, Minhaj goes on to make some solid points, saying examples such as this paint Indians "in a little box." Watch and react now:
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