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

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/g2gn26

 

Seems like a nice guy. Like I said though, regardless of intent, some things have to be punished whether you can establish intent or not. I feel for him, but mistakes have reprecussions regardless of how you feel about it.

 

ESPN threw him under the rickshaw

 

Really?? On a thread about cultural sensitivity?

 

Something doesn't seem right about this story. This guy is homeless and hungry, yet he has a cell phone to call you with? Really dude?

 

I don't buy it. Seriously, Chink???

Should've have thought twice before posting that. Regardless, intent is irrelevant most jobs you can get fired for f-ing up majorly. If someone in financial services made an clerical error costing the company a million dollars they probably and should be fired.

 

chinkballa88.xanga.com thinks you're

 

Morons know nothing about cultural sensitivity.

 

funny how it's being oversensitive when it comes to THE derogatory term for Asian-Americans. SAS trying to play the fair guy but firing that ESPN employee was definitely the proper punishment.

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Technically they have those in different parts of the world now... not just Asia.



at least that's what I got from google image

 

Ugh. Why did I bother watching any part of this? Like you said, after all the long-winded bloviating, the conclusion is asians are being oversensitive here? And that asians and other ethnic groups just want to be angry to get theirs b/c blacks have been so outspoken. Stupid.

 

where does anywhere mention a cell phone?

 

They also have sushi in Europe, cornbread in China, apple pie in South Africa. Still doesn't make it right.

 

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That's not a very good analogy. "chink" and "chink in the armor" are terms that have meaning totally unrelated to Asian people. This creates the possiblity that people are not aware of their racist context. "Darkie" has only one meaning. A better example would maybe be if a black player were involved in point shaving, and the headline was "Monkey Business".

 

ESPN editor fired for controversial Jeremy Lin headline now becoming a Catholic priest

 

But if it was a black racial slur itd be chalked up as just another day.

Any bigot garbage deserves a firing

 

lesson learned... found jesus. it's the jerry lin effect.

 

It's crazy how sensitive people are nowadays, chink in the armor is very common idiom, firing him for that was idiotic.

 

lol.....loved reading the past posting on this thread from 2012...the seeds of the LOF and LOH war here on clutch...where was Tinman and Zboy?