I have no idea what it must be like for you to have grown up, and to live in the environment that you describe. And, I respect that you probably have some feelings about it. I haven't seen the Linsanity movie, nor have I read everything that Lin has been quoted saying, but my sense is that he's not one to play the victim card. I challenged you when you said "Who in the modern day NBA or basketball in general has dealt with more racism than him? I'm waiting." No one here is downplaying Lin's experience as a visible minority. Even you can see that opportunities in life, basketball, etc., vis a vis race is a much bigger conversation than Jeremy Lin's experience in the "modern day NBA". By your narrow definition of how to frame the discussion about Lin, I believe it is you who has victimized Lin.
What are you talking about? In this thread a few pages back people questioned if Lin even had racism thrown his way. I produced the evidence. No one is crying.
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OK. It sounds like you agree with me and disagree with the majority of posters here. Lin doesn't play the victim. Thank you. I wished you could see also that I am not victimizing him either. I just like to call things like it is without any bs. If something is racist, it's racist. If someone on this forum is gonna say Lin never faced racism, I'll show that he has. If someone then tells me that what I showed doesn't count as racism, I'll explain how in real life, reasonable people disagree with them. That is how all that got brought up. I didn't bring it up out of the blue. Look at the whole Donald Sterling thing that went down. Why is racism against certain groups ok but others not? I have a young child at home. I don't want him to grow up in an environment where people are free to tease him for the shape of his eyes, his skin color, etc. And yet it's not considered real racism. Is that too much to ask? And again, I don't worship Lin nor do I think he is a great player or follow him on Twitter.
Racism, perceived or real, never kept Yao from succeeding and making his way into Rockets and NBA history.
This is the 100th time I'm gonna say this in the last 2 1/2 years. This is gonna be the turning point for Lin lol!!!
Because like a real man Yao just ignored it and kept moving forward. If u think about it though if racism is real then Yao Ming would have experienced way more than Lin, he isn't a cal kid, he didn't grow up in the US, he wasn't a christian and he didn't play for NYC so there was no hype. With Lin though I think he confuses general hate with racism, it's understandable since he is humble and he doesn't have beef with anybody so maybe he doesnt know why people hate him but he doesn't realize a lot of people find his fans to be annoying. You develop a dislike for someone when he gets a lot of hype and adulation when he doesn't deserve it, and in Lin's case he got a lot of fame because of Linsanity and NY media, but when his play sucked he still retained his popularity because he was Asian and/or Christian. On the other hand someone like Conley Jr has played way better than Lin and he has less than 10% of Lin's fan base lol. A lot of people don't like that undue hype and take it out on him so maybe he sees that as racism.
yao grew up in China as an athlete, that alone can be quite cruel, the pressure of possible racism is in no way or shape comparable to the love and hate from >1billion people, also a cultural thing chinese ppl r better hiding emotions
