Oops: Race-obsessed Salon confuses Pakistani-American, British-Indian actors

And take a bow, @salon. You just out-Onion'ed @TheOnion.

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) April 11, 2015

Uh oh, what did Salon do now? Before we answer that, though, let’s have a look at some of Salon’s other tweets from earlier today to get an idea of the online magazine’s standard fare.

White America’s racial illiteracy: Why our national conversation is poisoned from the start http://t.co/fqVhwRyGwQ pic.twitter.com/JWlTC9yvuU

— Salon (@Salon) April 10, 2015

Why white people often "withdraw, defend, cry, argue, minimize or ignore" when confronted about racial privilege http://t.co/sDgrB3fjus

— Salon (@Salon) April 10, 2015

“The GOP has scores of racists”: A former Bush official condemns modern Republican orthodoxy, slams neocons http://t.co/Q5zXps33NP

— Salon (@Salon) April 10, 2015

Race is obviously a big deal at Salon, but not a big enough of a deal to check before publishing. In a review of HBO’s “Silicon Valley,” Salon noted that star Kumail Nanjiani, a Pakistani-American stand-up comedian and actor, “is in fact” a regular on CBS’s “The Big Bang Theory.” That would in fact be Kunal Nayyar, a British-Indian actor.

https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/586678680576925696

https://twitter.com/CuffyMeh/status/586680661018292224

Oops indeed. Comedian Patton Oswalt tried to offer a path out of the mess.

Dear @salon: Use the headline "Wrong Brown Guy" in the thinkpiece. OWN IT. We all fuck up. Not trying to be mean, seriously.

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) April 11, 2015

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@pattonoswalt Reminiscent of Samuel L.

"I'm the "what's in your wallet" black guy!"

— twerk nowitzki (@campanamike) April 11, 2015

https://twitter.com/ChrisRosenbluth/status/586681446288396288

.@pattonoswalt @Salon "India, Pakistan… you know, the actor from one of those Call of Duty countries."

— the 3rd Craig Robinson (@The3CR) April 11, 2015

@pattonoswalt @Salon Gee…they deleted it. I'm sure nobody screen capped it.

— M. Amsterdam (@emmdee22) April 11, 2015

@pattonoswalt @Salon #IMDB is not hard to use.

— Benjamin Hunt (@overstimulated) April 11, 2015

@pattonoswalt if only someone had invented an Internet based movie and tv database for @Salon to use for fact checking…

— Søren died here* (@VideoWord) April 11, 2015

https://twitter.com/FallowToTheFiel/status/586682592637890561

@pattonoswalt @Salon I'm a blonde female. I think I'm Amy Poehler

— KatyK (@BaltimoreVeg) April 11, 2015

https://twitter.com/FallowToTheFiel/status/586683214388973568

https://twitter.com/FallowToTheFiel/status/586683797510426624

@pattonoswalt @Salon Can't wait for the Salon think piece addressing the insensitivity and racism on display at Salon

— Thomas F.X. Sullivan (@IrishHoodlum) April 11, 2015

@pattonoswalt @Salon is this was Fox News someone would yell racism. Why isn't this?

— Greg Franklin (@GFITRecruiter) April 11, 2015

We’re sure they’re working on the apology right now.

https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/586690587463516160

https://twitter.com/daveanthony/status/586692176530186243

https://twitter.com/Dschnoeb/status/586691169758945280

https://twitter.com/themadnat_ter/status/586691384012185600

https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/586691487695380480

@kumailn if any other site had did it you'd damn well expect a 3000 word thinkpeace from @salon about how this type of racism must stop

— Stuffing Boi (@bryancoffee) April 11, 2015