ESPN headline after Jeremy Lin loss: "Chink in the Armor"

But it was a fairly common phrase used because of the racial meaning in this instance. Even if it was a coincidence (I highly doubt it - the headline makers pride themselves on double meanings and other "clever" word plays), the racist implication should have immediately been noticed.

"Chink in the armor" has never been used in a headline except for when the Olympics were in China and for Jeremy Lin. You think that was on accident?

 

what a slippery slope

 

Enlighten you? If you honestly believe the juveniles that rule the NBA Dish (it's starting to get as bad as the pathetic GARM) are representative of society as a whole, there isn't much I can do for you. Are there worse forums on the net? Duh, obviously.

This may surprise you, but most Americans don't visit NBA basketball forums. Just a small subset.

 

LOL I was wondering who was going to say that...

 

I don't think it is ignorant at all. It happens all the time. It happens here at CF.net. I bet if we didn't have Yao, it would have happened far more. People may acknowledge racism is not just about blacks. But deep down the only racism that matters to most Americans is about blacks.

But I don't want to discuss this. It belongs to the D&D and I don't go there anymore.

 

White folks are the best at racial slurs, they got a nickname for everything.. You wanna know what they call Basketball???
"Gorilla Golfing"

 

You sir are an idiot. Chink is to Asians as N#$%r is to blacks. It was the term used when Chinese were essentially brought over in boats during the 1800's with the promise great compensation in exchange for work, like building rail roads, digging mines, all the dangerous work that no one else wanted to do. They were given enough rations to keep them just barely strong enough to work.

 

This was a stupid mistake but without knowing more I am not going to make too big of a deal out of it. ESPN should've caught this before they put it online but to their credit they took it down within minutes and apologized.

The situation sort of reminds me of when a public official used the term "nigardly" in a public announcement about 10 years ago and got a lot of criticism for it even though the word means stingy and is not related to the other similar sounding term.

"Chink" has a completely non-racial meaning and "Chink in the armor" is the correct usage of the term. I don't know if this was the headline writer trying to be intentionally witty with the double meaning (being either willfully racist), completely tone deaf to the racist implications, or if it was a Freudian slip.

 

Do not feel ashamed. 90% Americans are.

 

Wow ... He should sue them and retire while he's still "great"

 

I don't care if ESPN has it up on that site. For you to put it here says a lot about you. Clutchfans has enough racism as is.
It's something new every freakin day with you guys!

 

Pffft, your reading comprehension is...lacking.

NBA Dish is far more sensible and less ignorant than society as a whole. Especially when it comes to Asian Americans.

It's pretty sad but true.

 

Not sure why you are attacking the OP. Don't really see where the OP is endorsing BSPN's headline, he is only bringing attention to it.

 

I'll say one thing the amount of unconscionable disrespect shown by the sporting world to Asian athletes is astounding. It's almost as if they are playing the role of the physically dominant jock to a nerd trying to ask a girl out before he flexes his dominants over you. I know that this is a far-flung analogy but 'chink?' really? Other than the N-word, the C-word (to a girl) I can't think of a more sick expression. And that guy Jason Whitlock can apologize all he wants, but his jab at Lin was typical of the humorless jock syndrome of a guy that clearly wanted to reduce Lin to a pebble.

Is this how the rest of the world sees Asian guys? If it is we are in trouble.

 

the writer knew what he was doing, and thought he could get away with a tasteless pun

 

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