A couple of things.
1. Digital Spy Magazine: Why on earth would you put Racist in quotes in your headline? It's not racist? It's a perception? It's open to opinion calling Chinese people chinks?
2. Does someone actually apologize because they want to, because they want to learn more and educate themselves, or are they just bowing to public pressure?
Don't know - but at least it's out there.
For whatever it's worth.